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Smart phone

     A smart phone is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary basic feature phone. Smart phones and feature phones may be thought of as handheld computers integrated within a mobile telephone, but while most feature phones are able to run applications based on platforms such as Java ME, a smart phone allows the user to install and run more advanced applications based on a specific platform. Smart phones run complete operating system software providing a platform for application developers.
Growth in demand for advanced mobile devices boasting powerful processors, abundant memory, larger screens, and open operating systems has outpaced the rest of the mobile phone market for several years. According to a study by COM Score, over 45.5 million people in the United States owned smart phones in 2010 and it is the fastest growing segment of the mobile phone market, which comprised 234 million subscribers in the United States.

Rise of Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry

     In 2000 Ericsson released the touch screen smart phone R380, the first device to use the new Symbian OS. It was followed up by P800 in 2002, the first camera smart phone.

     In 2001 Microsoft announced its Windows CE Pocket PC OS would be offered as "Microsoft Windows Powered Smart phone 2002. Microsoft originally defined its Windows Smart phone products as lacking a touch screen and offering a lower screen resolution compared to its sibling Pocket PC devices.

     In early 2002 Handspring released the Palm OS Treo smart phone, utilizing a full keyboard that combined wireless web browsing, email, calendar, and contact organizer with mobile third-party applications that could be downloaded or synced with a computer.

    In 2002 RIM released the first Blackberry which was the first smart phone optimized for wireless email use and had achieved a total customer base of 32 million subscribers by December 2009.

In 2007 Nokia launched the Nokia N95 which integrated a wide range of features into a consumer-oriented smart phone: GPS, a 5 mega pixel camera with auto focus and LED flash, 3G and WiFi connectivity and TV-out. In the next few years these features would become standard on high-end smart phones.

The rise of the iPhone and Android

     Later in 2007, Apple Inc. introduced its first iPhone. It was initially expensive, costing $500 for the cheaper of two models on top of a two year contract. It was one of the first smart phones to be mainly controlled through its touch screen, the others being the LG Prada and the HTC Touch (also released in 2007). It was the first mobile phone to use a multi-touch interface. It featured a web browser that was much better than its competitors - Ars Technical described it as "far superior to anything that we had ever used prior." At the time of the launch of the iPhone it was arguable whether it was actually a smart phone as the first generation lacked the ability to officially use third-party applications. A process called jail breaking emerged quickly to provide unofficial third-party applications. The original iPhone lacked 3G support due to the immaturity, power usage, and physical size requirements of 3G chipsets at the time.

     Android, a cross platform OS for smart phones was released in 2008. Android is an Open Source platform 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. The first phone to use the Android OS was the HTC Dream, branded for distribution by T-Mobile as the G1. The software suite included on the phone consists of integration with Google's proprietary applications, such as Maps, Calendar, and Gmail, and a full HTML web browser. Third-party apps are available via the Android Market, including both free and paid apps.

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