About Smartphone

Why People Love A Smartphone??

The Smartphone has become man’s best friend. Many lives are influenced and revolve around the use of their Smartphones. Its ability to connect people via its applications is affecting and changing the way we live. Applications that come with these mobile devices have become an integral part of our daily existence. Nowadays there is an application for just about anything that has proven to be useful for all its users.

The Smartphone has played its role in satisfying its users to always stay connected. Almost everyone in every part of the world is using it. There are countless things to do with this device that makes it more special. It is an all-in-one or multi tool which is portable and handy. This has gradually become an extension to us and serves like an important part of our body. The Smartphones may be the most influential and powerful invention of the past twenty years. All kinds of people use them from businessmen, students, old people and even the pope own a Smartphone.

The Smartphone contributed so much on the way we run and go through life and our business. Aside from storing data and documents, it is an all-in-one tool that works as a calendar, organizer, calculator and a whole lot more, providing instant access to the internet anywhere anytime and most importantly keeping you in touch with family and friends are constantly.

There are other reasons why mobile users use a Smartphone:

·         Smartphones are ultra-light compared to the regular cell phone. They come in sleek designs in portable sizes. Smartphones have big screens with good to great resolutions that make a difference in the display and handling of these devices.

·         These Smartphones includes tools such as calculators, camera, map applications and GPS. Most Smartphones have the ability to support 3^rd party or browser based programs which could perform multiple task and functions. This is becoming popular for many Smartphones since it allows users to customize their Smartphones to meet their needs and support their lifestyles. An example of such application is the spy software that can transform your Smartphone into a surveillance device. An example for this is the Flexispycell phone tapping software which be installed to any Smartphone.

·         Most Smartphones that are out in the market today have at least 5 megapixel camera with additional features like its zoom features and its capability to play and record an audio or video. It also includes organizational features like calendars, reminder and task list that have been helpful for most people.

·         The pillar of a business and relationship is communication. The primary function of Smartphone is as a cellular phone. It includes all the typical features of a mobile phone such as speakerphone, three way calling, voice dialing, call waiting, caller id and a whole lot more.

·         The battery life span could last a whole day or more.

                  http://easy1001.com/study-people-are-falling-in-love-with-their-smartphones/

http://technowatchnow.blogspot.com/2013/03/why-people-love-smartphone.html

 

10 Unknown Facts about Smartphones

1 You can start your car with a smartphone

If you want to start your car parked outside from within your home, you can do it using a smartphone. There are many applications that let you do this. You can download these applications on your iOS, BlackBerry or Android smartphones. You also need to install a security system in your car that responds to the signals transmitted by your smartphone app.

2 There are more Android phones in the world

The dominance of Android phones continues unabated. A recent statistic revealed that there are more Android smartphones than iOS smartphones. It wont be long when every man or woman or boy or girl in the world will own an Android device. The popularity of this device is not going to diminish in the near future.

3 Over a billion people will start using smartphones for their Internet

Now nobody logs into their personal computer or laptop to access the Internet. By the year 2015, more than a billion people will access the Internet only through their smartphones. This indicates that smartphones will be the primary access point for people to the Internet.

4 Control your PC

You can control your PC with your smartphone. You install the Virtual Computing App for this purpose. The app makes a virtual connection with your desktop PC. You can connect from any remote location. You need not be in front of the computer. The connection is made through a network. You will need a reliable Internet connection though.

5 Google Voice lets you call for free

Google Voice, a popular smartphone app lets you call between United States and Canada for free. Any other call to any other region will cost you.

6 There are more Android users in Japan Android users are the most in Japan

This is unlike what people used to think before. Conventionally there was this misconception that there were more Android users in the West. But this surprising statistic indicates that Android is preferred more in the East.

7 Smartphones are used by young people more

The age group of 25 – 34 has the highest number of smartphone users. This indicates that if you are young, you ought to own a smartphone for sure!

8 Send a postcard when on travel

An interesting app named Postcard on the Run lets you mail across your travel pictures in postcard format. The U.S postal services will snail-mail your pictures in physical paper postcard format to recipients.

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Operating System

An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is an essential component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs usually require an operating system to function.
Time-sharing operating systems, schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting for cost allocation of processor time, mass storage, printing, and other resources.
For hardware functions such as input and output and memory allocation, the operating system acts as an intermediary between programs and the computer hardware,^[1][2] although the application code is usually executed directly by the hardware and will frequently make a system call to an OS function or be interrupted by it. Operating systems can be found on almost any device that contains a computer—from cellular phones and video game consoles to supercomputers and web servers.
Examples of popular modern operating systems include Android, BSD, iOS, GNU/Linux, OS X, QNX, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, and IBM z/OS. All these, except Windows and z/OS, share roots in UNIX.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
 

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Apple

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod music player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and production suites.
The company was founded on April 1, 1976, and incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977 .The word "Computer" was removed from its name on January 9, 2007, the same day Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, reflecting its shifted focus towards consumer electronics.
Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia. Fortune magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world from 2008 to 2012. However, the company has received criticism for its contractors' labor practices, and for Apple's own environmental and business practices.
As of May 2013, Apple maintains 408 retail stores in fourteen countries as well as the online Apple Store and iTunes Store, the latter of which is the world's largest music retailer. Apple is the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization, with an estimated value of US$415 billion as of March 2013. As of Sept 29 2012, the company had 72,800 permanent full-time employees and 3,300 temporary full-time employees worldwide. Its worldwide annual revenue in 2012 totalled $156 billion. In May 2013, Apple entered the top ten of the Fortune 500 list of companies for the first time, rising 11 places above its 2012 ranking to take the sixth position.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.

Samsung 

Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate).
Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next three decades the group diversified into areas including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities and retail. Samsung entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. Following Lee's death in 1987, Samsung was separated into four business groups – Samsung Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and Hansol Group. Since the 1990s Samsung has increasingly globalized its activities, and electronics, particularly mobile phones and semiconductors, have become its most important source of income.
Notable Samsung industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology company measured by 2012 revenues, and 4th in market value), Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's second-largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues), and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T (respectively the world's 13th and 36rd-largest construction companies). Other notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (the world's 14th-largest life insurance company), Samsung Everland (operator of Everland Resort, the oldest theme park in South Korea), Samsung Techwin (an aerospace, surveillance and defence company) and Cheil Worldwide (the world's 16th-largest advertising agency measured by 2011 revenues).
Samsung has a powerful influence on South Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture, and has been a major driving force behind the "Miracle on the Han River". Its affiliate companies produce around a fifth of South Korea's total exports.^[11] Samsung's revenue was equal to 17% of the South Korea's $1082 billion GDP.
In 2013, Samsung began construction on building the world's largest mobile phone factory in the Thai Nguyen province of Vietnam. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung

 

  HTC



HTC Corporation (Chinese: 宏達國際電子股份有限公司; pinyin: Hóngdá Guójì Diànzǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī), formerly High Tech Computer Corporation,^[3] is a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones and tablets headquartered in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Initially making smartphones based mostly on Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system (OS) software, HTC expanded its focus in 2009 to devices based on the Android OS, and in 2010 to Windows Phone OS.
HTC is a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, a group of handset manufacturers and mobile network operators dedicated to the development of the Android mobile device platform.^[4] The HTC Dream, marketed by T-Mobile in many countries as the T-Mobile G1 or Era G1, was the first phone on the market to use the Android mobile device platform.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC

Research

Infographic

Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. With an information graphic, computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol to process information.

Today information graphics surround us in the media, in published works both pedestrian and scientific, in road signs and manuals. They illustrate information that would be unwieldy in text form, and act as a visual shorthand for everyday concepts such as stop and go.

http://mashable.com/category/infographics/

Infographic about smartphone

What is smartphone?

A smartphone, or smart phone, is a mobile phone built on a mobile operating system, with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than a feature phone.The first smartphones combined the functions of a personal digital assistant (PDA) with a mobile phone. Later models added the functionality of portable media players, low-end compact digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and GPS navigation units to form one multi-use device. Many modern smartphones also include high-resolution touchscreens and web browsers that display standard web pages as well as mobile-optimized sites. High-speed data access is provided by Wi-Fi and mobile broadband. In recent years, the rapid development of mobile app markets and of mobile commerce have been drivers of smartphone adoption.
The mobile operating systems (OS) used by modern smartphones include Google's Android, Apple's iOS, Nokia's Symbian, RIM's BlackBerry OS, Samsung's Bada, Microsoft's Windows Phone, Hewlett-Packard's webOS, and embedded Linux distributions such as Maemo and MeeGo. Such operating systems can be installed on many different phone models, and typically each device can receive multiple OS software updates over its lifetime. A few other upcoming operating systems are Mozilla's Firefox OS, Canonical Ltd.'s Ubuntu Phone, and Tizen.
Worldwide sales of smartphones exceeded those of feature phones in early 2013. As of July 18, 2013, 90 percent of global handset sales are attributed to the purchase of iPhone and Android smartphones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone

Why people use smartphone?

Is social networking the real reason that people are so obsessed with their smartphones? Mark Bonnett attempts to answer this question for us.

After months or even years of rumours, Facebook finally unveiled its plans for the mobile industry, in the shape of Facebook Home, a homescreen replacement that will be made available for Android phones through Google Play, and which will put the Facebook experience front and centre on your phone. However, it wasn’t just the new software which was unveiled at the time; Facebook Home will also find a home in a phone specifically optimised to use it, the aptly named HTC First.

During the unveiling of Facebook Home, Mark Zuckerberg went to great pains to point out that Facebook is the most used app on mobile phones, with the clear implication being that Facebook was at least partly responsible for the success of smartphones.

But how true is that? Is social networking really the big reason why people use smartphones?

That’s an intriguing question, because there can be very little doubt that social networking has had a massive effect on the popularity of smartphones; the statistics do indeed show that Facebook is used by millions of people, on phones as diverse as the iPhone 5 or the Android-powered Sony Xperia Z. Some phones take that to an even deeper level, with HTC phone sin particular being adept at integrating Facebook contacts into your phone; the same can also be said about the Windows Phone platform, powering phones such as the HTC 8X.

However, Zuckerberg posited a world where Facebook was the main reason why people use their smartphones, and it’s this claim which we can examine in more detail. This claim is what led Zuckerberg to compare current smartphone interfaces to the very first Windows interface on PCs (whereby people click on icons, to start programs, or apps in the case of smartphones) after all, and it is why Facebook Home was designed to be the way it is.

However, while Facebook is undoubtedly a reason why people use their phones, many have come out to say that it’s not the main reason. It’s notable that the stats shown at the Facebook Home unveiling only included downloaded apps like Instagram; the stats didn’t include core functionalities of modern smartphones, features like the web browser, the music player or the camera, for example. This immediately throws some doubt on Zuckerberg’s assertion, as many suspect that if those features were included, their usage statistics would trounce even the Facebook app.

Thus it seems likely that, while social networking has played a crucial part in the success of smartphones, it’s not the whole story.

Of course, in this case, there is an easy way to find out a definitive answer, and it’s this: simply wait. If Zuckerberg is correct, and Facebook is what people really want to use on their phones, then logically, Facebook Home will become one of the most popular mobile apps ever, while simultaneously, the HTC First will sell by the million.

Considering that it’s going to be going up against the truly epic Samsung Galaxy S4, and considering that the Samsung Galaxy S3 should naturally drop in price once the S4 goes on sale, taking it into the kind of mid-range territory where the HTC First will sit, it’s definitely going to be a baptism of fire for the newcomer!

Source: http://www.buymobilephones.net/news/the-big-reason-people-use-smartphones#sthash.sMn235xT.dpuf

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Top Ten Reasons Why People Buy Smartphones

The use of smartphones has seen a steady and rapid increase over time and space. These days, any decision to buy a smartphone is one motivated by knowledge that a good smartphone can allow you to accomplish more than you thought you could - whether professional or personal - and remain mobile.
However, as with most other electronics market spaces, there are an insane number of manufacturers and smartphones, making choosing your next big gadget-related investment a dicey proposition, if you have not conducted sufficient research into all possible angles.
There are a number of requirements you need to consider, ranging from something as simple as price and budget to whether or not you want a camera or a particular kind of technology; even brand can play a big role in determining what you will eventually plump for.
Social networking refers to the use of online platforms that focus on building social networks across the world, allowing users to share common interests, notifications of activities or events and even daily thoughts. The popularity of platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ has grown exponentially in recent times and shows no real sign of slowing down, suggest that a smartphone capable of seamlessly integrating with any one or all of the aforementioned services is a must.
According to the survey, 53.2 percent of users polled tend to update and read statuses as well as upload photographs to their networking accounts every day, while another 26.6 percent do so occasionally. The most frequent users are, logically, enough, the younger generations (up to 24 years old) are the most active and account for nearly 60 percent

• Taking Photos

Smartphones users have long realised the utility of a good camera on their phones and manufacturers have hastened to comply with their requests. The survey suggests that 98.6 percent of polled users are frequent users of their smartphone's cameras - teenagers are the most frequent (take photographs every day) compared to people over the age of 50 (take photographs once a week). Women tend to use the camera's special features more often than men, who, however, retaliate by taking more photographs.

• Listening To Music

As much as 60.7 percent of polled users said they listen to music on their phones every day, while another 34.6 percent said they do so occasionally. In effect, more than 95 percent of people with smartphones use their phones as much as portable music players as anything else.

• Watch Online Videos

Perhaps unsurprisingly, men are more likely than women to watch videos online and these usually tend to be music videos or short comic clips and GSM Arena claims their popularity is almost double that of regular films.
Business Wire reported a 34 percent increase in accessing videos on smartphones over the past year and that 52 percent of all smartphone videos are watched at home, between 5 pm and 11 pm.

• Mobile Gaming

Naturally, the thrill of mobile gaming is a big reason to buy a smartphone, particularly since the high-end devices like the newly launched Samsung Galaxy S3 sports such fantastic graphics and processing power. Predictably, mobile gaming is most popular among youngsters, with 60 percent enjoying games every day. The interest in mobile gaming seems to decrease with age though; the feature's overall score is only 47.7 percent. Finally, the survey suggests women are less enamoured by mobile games than men.

• Web Browsing

According to the survey, 78.6 percent of all users browse the web on their phones daily. In fact, only one in 80 respondents has never done so. Women and people over 50 years of age tend to use the web less often than young men do.

• Installing New Apps

Unlike traditional cell phones, smartphones allow users to install apps of their choice. According to the survey, only 45 percent of the users check the app stores every day, while the total visitors who tend to browse the app stores are double that number. Naturally, teenagers are the most frequent users, while women and people over 50 hardly browse the app stores.

• Send SMS

One of the most obvious advantages of any mobile phone, let alone a smartphone, is the ability to text. Although its popularity has waned a little over the years, the report says as much as 78.7 percent of polled users confirm texting is something they do often

• Alarm clock

Interestingly, according to the survey, a total of 97.8 percent of all phone users use the alarm clock feature; 82.7 percent use it every day. The reports suggest people in the age group of 25 - 32 use it the most, while the youngest (under-18) and the oldest (over 50) rarely do so.

• Mobile internet usage

Finally, the lure of mobile Internet on the go makes for a very convenient way of accessing the Internet from a smartphone, via a USB modem. According to the survey, over 90 percent of all the users access the Internet (71 percent do so every day). Incidentally, teenagers score below average on this count, possibly because of the high cost of using the Internet.

Source: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/348123/20120603/smartphone-features-camera-browsing-gaming-apps-gps.htm

Data Gathering

                   
                          Data Gathering from various of people and observe what model of the
                                                           smartphone they are using .

MMA2113 Media Arts Design 3 / Assignment 2 / Brief