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Magazine All about SMART

PHONES

Date: 23rd Sep’13

Weekly Mag.

Intro

Origin of the term.

How smartphones work?

Operating Systems

Why smart phone is better?

Editor:

Marvi Maqsood

Office Manager:

Huzaifa Javed

Legal Advisor:

Aman Arif

Marvi Maqsood:

8th Grader in Beaconhouse School System. One

of the bright students from her class, always

outstanding and participative in every so far ac-

tivity.

Huzaifa Javed:

8th Grader in Beaconhouse School System. Co-

operative at times but still get the work done at

time.

Aman Arif:

8th Grader Student in BSS. Likes to help others

in everyway possible as well as keen at doing

his work.

A 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 smart phones combined the functions of a

personal digital assistant (PDA) with a mobile phone.

Later models added the functionality of portable me-

dia players, low-end compact digital cameras, pocket

video cameras, and GPS navigation units to form

one multi-use device. Many modern smart phones

also include high-resolution touch-screens 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 smart

phone adoption.

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

Smart phones

The distinction between smartphones and feature

phones can be vague, and there is no official definition

for what constitutes the difference between them. One of

the most significant differences is that the advanced ap-

plication programming interfaces on smartphones for

running third-

party applications

can allow those ap-

plications to have

better integration

with the phone's

OS and hardware

than is typical with

feature phones. In

comparison, fea-

ture phones more commonly run on proprietary firm-

ware, with third-party software support through plat-

forms such as Java .An additional complication is that

the capabilities found in newer feature phones exceed

those of older phones that had once been promoted as

smartphones.

Since cell phones and PDAs are the most common handheld

devices today, a smartphone is usually either a phone with

added PDA capabilities or a PDA with added phone capabilities.

Here's a list of some of the things smartphones can do:

.Send and receive mobile phone calls – some smartphones are

also WiFi capable.

.Personal Information Management (PIM) including notes, cal-

endar and to-do list

.Communication with laptop or desktop computers

.Data synchronization with applications like Microsoft

.Outlook and Apple's iCal calendar programs

.E-mail

.Instant messaging

.Applications such as word processing programs or video

games

.Play audio and video files in some standard formats

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Android: Android is an open-source platform founded in Octo-ber 2003 by Andy Rubin and backed by Google, along with major hardware and software developers (such as Intel, HTC, ARM, Motorola and Samsung, to name a few), that form the Open Handset Alliance. It was called the HTC Dream and was branded for distribu-tion by T-Mobile as the G1. The software suite includ-ed on the phone consists of integration with Google's proprietary applications, such as Maps, Calendar, and Gmail, and a full HTML web browser.

iOS: In 2007, Apple Inc. introduced the original iPhone, one of the first mobile phones to use a multi-touch inter-face. The iPhone was notable for its use of a large touchscreen for direct finger input as its main means of interaction, instead of a stylus, keyboard, and/or keypad as typical for smartphones at the time. It ini-tially lacked the capability to install native applications, meaning some did not regard it as a smartphone.

Windows Phone: On February 15, 2010, Microsoft unveiled its next-generation mobile OS, Windows Phone 7. Microsoft's mobile OS includes a completely over-hauled UI in-spired by Microsoft's "Metro Design Language". It in-cludes full integration of Microsoft services such as Mi-crosoft SkyDrive and Office, Xbox Music, Xbox Video, Xbox Live games and Bing, but also integrates with many other non-Microsoft services such as Facebook, Twitter and Google accounts. The new software plat-form has received some positive reception from the technology press and has been praised for its unique-ness. Blackberry: In 1999, RIM released its first BlackBerry devices, making secure real-time push-email communications possible on wireless devices. Services such as Black-Berry Messenger and the integration of all communica-tions into a single inbox allowed users to access, cre-ate, share and act upon information instantly. There are 80 million active BlackBerry service subscribers (BIS/BES) and the 200 millionth BlackBerry smartphone was shipped in September 2012.

Palm OS: In late 2001, Handspring launched their own Spring-board GSM phone module with limIn early 2002, Handspring released the Palm OS Treo smartphone with both a touch screen and a full keyboard. The Treo had wireless web browsing, email, calendar, a contact organizer and mobile third-party applications that could be downloaded or synced with a computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/smartphone-vs-regular-phone-54279.html It's estimated that by the year 2015, over 65 percent of the

United States population will own a smartphone, according to

an article published on CNET. That's over 200 million people.

Smartphones, with their email, Web browsing, gaming, texting

and video-messaging capabilities, are quickly making regular

cellular phones irrelevant, but regular, traditional cell phones

still offer some benefits.

Purpose: Smartphones offer users a level of on-the-go convenience not

matched by standard phones, increasing user efficiency. This

is important with sales representatives and other executives, as

smartphones enable them to check email and browse infor-

mation while they're on the road or away from a computer.

Smartphones are also stylish and portray a sense of profes-

sionalism and efficiency, traits that are viewed positively by

clients and potential clients.

Functionality: Regular cell phones offer texting and calling functionality,

whereas smartphones offer a list of features including email, In-

ternet access, video chatting, gaming, app downloading, video

taking and music storage.

Camera: Many regular cell phones are equipped with cameras, but not of

the quality found on smartphones. For instance, the iPhone 4S

features an 8-megapixel camera, capable of taking both still

photos and video in 1080p quality. It also offers the ability to

edit from the phone itself and enables users to share pictures

and videos instantly. Zoom features, face detection and reduced

motion blur are other features of the 4S camera.

Cost: Cost is the main area where traditional cell phones still hold an

advantage over smartphones. For instance, purchasing a

smartphone starts around $200, and that's only if you're a new

customer or eligible for a phone upgrade; for others, the cost is

much higher. Then there's the mandatory cellular data package,

which costs about $30 per month in addition to text and talk

plans. Regular cell phone users don't pay for data plans. Tradi-

tional cell phones are also much cheaper -- if not free -- up

front.

1)What is a smartphone?

2)What features does a

smartphone has?

3)What is the origin of

the term?

4)Name a few operating systems?

5)What is the purpose of a smartphone?

Quiz