What's that? Aha! Yes, you have not only heard of them, you've most likely seen them as well. Packed with Internet access, email capabilities, address books, and a whole lot more, cell phones have come a long way since their first unveiling. But be wary not to mix up these newest toys with sandbox devices.
Sandbox devices are devices that come pre-loaded with things like calendars, calculators, and a notepad. Unlike sand box devices smart phones allow you to add new applications to them. That - and the ability to edit the content that sits on them - is what makes these phones "smart."
Some of the more trendy brand names include the Blackberry, PalmSource, Nokia, and Windows CE. Yet the craze is extending to even some off-brand company names. Standard voice-only cellular phones are becoming more and more scarce and suppliers realise that their users want and need devices with lots af features. The mobile generation requires easily accessible information at all times and these smart phones are able to deliver - no matter what field or industry you are in there are developers developing phenomenal applications for just about everything.
As a result, you can find tons of games, databases, GPA systems, weather reporting applications, and even small encyclopedias on these things - each accessible not at the click of a mouse - but at a few presses of a free thumb. Of course a tiny keyboard is offered for the text-messaging fan or for the poor fellow who can't seem to get away from the workplace. In the latter case, don't be surprised if you find the entire Microsoft office suite displayed within a screen no bigger than a matchbook.
Is this a phase? That's highly doubtful. The marketplace for these devices extends from the highly scientific and professional all the way to the pre-teen socialite. The product crosses all demographics and thanks to reducing costs - it sees no monetary boundaries as well. The Wikipedia encyclopedia claims that "Out of 1 billion camera phones to be shipped in 2008, Smart phones, the higher end of the marketplace with full email support, will represent about 10% of the market or about 100 million units."
But what is it that makes smartphones so interesting? As mentioned, smartphones give us the ability to not only carry our data around with us where ever we go, it also gives us the ability to edit that information any place - any time. We are looking for ways to save a specific minute in time and smartphones gives us that capability. And we want to share that minute with others. At best, smart phones give us the chance to express ourselves impromptu with entertaining results.
Trying to do the same with a awkward desktop PC or laptop is to cumbersome. Even some of the smallest peripherals (digicams, digital cameras, etc.) don't give us the same possibilities that smart phones do. Being able to carry around a device for communication, creation, recording, and editing simply compliments the need for today's generation to do more and then do it, faster!
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