Thursday, April 26, 2007
Everywhere Pocket PC – How to Choose the right Smartphone Handset
Symbian SmartPhones
A smartphone is generally considered any handheld device that integrates personal information management and mobile phone capabilities in the same device. Often, this includes adding phone functions to already capable PDAs or putting "smart" capabilities, such as PDA functions, into a mobile phone.
History
The first smartphone was called Simon designed by IBM in 1992 and shown as a concept product that year at COMDEX, the computer industry trade show held in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was released to the public in 1993 and sold by BellSouth. Besides a mobile phone, it also contained a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail, and games. It had no physical buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a touch-screen to select phone numbers with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. Text was entered with a unique on-screen "predictive" keyboard. By today's standards, the Simon
Today’s Smartphones
Everywhere you look, people have smartphones. We are walking around with more computing power in our pocket than all of NASA had in the 1960s, and there's such a bewildering range of choices that you have to rely on the three bullet points the mobile phone stores and brochures provide. In this group test, the first of two looking at smartphones, I will look at a number of the most recent Symbian-based smartphones, what they offer, and their strengths and weaknesses.
Today The Symbian platform has the lions share of the smartphone market, and it is not difficult to see why. The support from the largest manufacturers, and the constant development of the operating system, user interfaces and built in applications has resulted in a very stable mobile platform, and one that you can rely on. It's no exaggeration to say that a crash on a Symbian device is a rare occurrence.
How to choose right smartphone
Smartphones can be as vital to conducting business as your laptop, so choosing the right one to work with is essential. Below I am listing websites providing very useful guide on how to buy smartphones.
IT PRO - IT PRO compares and tests five of the latest Symbian-based phones. Also provide great detail on price, features and consumer opinion
ConsumerSearch – Provides Smartphone Features Comparison
PCPRO – Provides world wide smartphone market information
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