Smartphones - A Quick Overview The Smartphone is the wave of the present and future. Just when most people thought that mobile phones could not get better than the Apple iPhone, a series of Smartphones have made its glorious entrance.
The concept for Smartphone apps, short for Smartphone applications, is not new. Actually, it dates back to 1992, when the first Smartphone, named Simon was invented. It was an early mobile or cell phone. It includes such apps as a clock, address book, email, notepad, a send and receive fax machine, as well as games. It was a legend ahead of its time.
The first actual Smartphone was sold in 2000, when the Ericsson R380 was released. It was the first cell phone that was actually called a Smartphone. By 2005, Nokia started launching its Nseries of 3G Smartphones, which were not called cell phones or Smartphones, but "multimedia computers", even though in effect, they were essentially Smartphones.
In 2008, Android, a cross platform OS for Smartphones, was released. This was the first Smartphone to feature the use of applications, or "apps." In July of the same year, Apple introduced its App Store. The app store is capable of delivering third-party applications to a user's iPhone or iPod touchpad via wi-fi or cellular networks without using a PC to download.
The App Store has become a huge sensation. In fact, as of March 2010, it has offered 170,000 applications and had made three billion downloads as of January 2010.
There are different types of apps. For example, on an iPhone, there are virtually apps for everything known to man. As their commercial puts it, "Yeah, there's an app for that too." If one were to consider the number of apps available on iPod, they would seemingly never get to the end of it all. Its list is inexhaustibly endless.
BlackBerry- At BlackBerry App World, you can reportedly download 140,000 apps free, with games, social networking, shopping, productivity as well as other amenities. You can personalize your