| phones | | | | a free thumb. Of course a small keyboard is available |
| If you haven't heard of smartphones, we'd like to learn | | | | for the text-messaging fan or for the poor fellow who |
| where you've been hiding all this time. Smartphones | | | | can't seem to get away from the office. In the latter |
| have been all over the news and chances are, you do | | | | case, don't be surprised if you find the entire Microsoft |
| know what they are - only you know them under a | | | | Office suite displayed within a screen no bigger than a |
| different name. Smartphones are mobile phones with | | | | matchbook. |
| computer like capabilities and internet search. | | | | Is this a phase? That's highly doubtful. The market for |
| What's that? Aha! Yes, you've not only heard of them, | | | | these devices extends from the highly technical and |
| you've probably seen them as well. Packed with | | | | professional all the way to the pre-teen socialite. The |
| Internet access, email capabilities, address books, and a | | | | product crosses all demographics and thanks to |
| whole lot more, cell phones have come a long way | | | | decreasing expense - it sees no economic boundaries |
| since their first debut. | | | | as well. The Wikipedia encyclopedia claims that "Out |
| Sandbox devices are tools that come pre-loaded with | | | | of 1 billion camera phones to be shipped in 2008, |
| things like calendars, calculators, and a notepad. What | | | | Smartphones, the higher end of the market with full |
| differentiates them from smartphones is that users | | | | email support, will represent about 10% of the market |
| can add (download and install) additional programs to | | | | or about 100 million units." |
| smartphones and they seemingly become good | | | | But what is it that makes smartphones so appealing? |
| portable computers for the people who use them. | | | | As I told earlier, smartphones give us the ability to not |
| That - and the ability to edit the content that sits on | | | | only carry our data around with us where ever we go, |
| them - is what makes these phones "smart." | | | | it also gives us the ability to edit that data any place - |
| Some of the more popular brand names include the | | | | any time. In today's "reality" based generation, we're |
| Blackberry, PalmSource, Nokia, and Windows CE. Yet | | | | always looking for the opportunity to capture and relive |
| the craze is extending to even some unknown | | | | a moment. And we want to share that moment with |
| company names. Today, it's hard to find a cell phone | | | | others. At best, smart phones give us the opportunity |
| that doesn't offer some sort of "smart" technology | | | | to express ourselves impromptu with entertaining |
| because it's in such a high demand. The convenience | | | | results. |
| of having information at our immediate access is | | | | Attempting to do the same with a bulky regular |
| phenomenal - so much so that thousands of | | | | computer or laptop is to cumbersome. Even some of |
| programmers have jumped on the opportunity to build | | | | the smallest peripherals (digicams, digital cameras, etc.) |
| unique applications specific to these small machines. | | | | don't give us the same opportunities that smart phones |
| As a result, you can find tons of games, databases, | | | | do. Being able to carry around a device for |
| GPS systems, weather reporting programs, and even | | | | communication, creation, recording, and editing simply |
| small encyclopedias on these things - each accessible | | | | compliments the need for today's generation to do |
| not at the click of a mouse - but at a few presses of | | | | more and then do it, faster! |