The Common Features of All Smartphones and Smartphone Evolution

The Common Features of All Smartphones and Smartphone Evolution

Smartphone Features

Can we Put Personal Computer in Pocket Like Smartphone which is Pocket sized Mobile is working Like a Mobile Personal Computer with Mobile(smartphone)Operating System with useful features.

Like PC ,Smartphone should reach our requirements to call and receive voice/video calls and create and receive text messages, have personal digital assistants , an event calendar, a media player, video games, GPS navigation, digital camera and digital video camera. 

Smartphones can access the Internet through cellular frequencies or Wi-Fi and can run a variety of third-party software components Apps  from places like Google Play Store .

Every Smartphone have a color display with a graphical user interface that covers more than 76% of the front surface.

The display of smartphone is almost always a touchscreen and sometimes additionally a touch-enabled keyboard like the Priv/Passport BlackBerrys, which enables the user to use a virtual keyboard to type words and numbers and press onscreen icons to activate "app" features.

The First Smartphone Invention

In 1999, the Japanese Company  NTT DoCoMo released the first smartphones .Smartphones became popular in the late 2000s. 

Devices that combined telephony and computing were first conceptualized by Nikola Tesla in 1909 and Theodore Paraskevakos in 1971 and patented in 1974, and were offered for sale beginning in 1993. Paraskevakos was the first person to introduce the concepts of intelligence, data processing and visual display screens into telephones.

The first mobile phone to include PDA(Personal digital assistant) features was a prototype developed by Frank Canova in 1992 .

The Simon was the first commercially available device that could be properly referred to as a "smartphone", although it was not called that in 1994. In addition to placing and receiving cellular calls, Simon could send and receive faxes and emails and included an address book, calendar, appointment scheduler, calculator, world time clock and notepad, utilizing its touch screen display.

The term "smart phone" appeared in print as early as 1995, describing AT&T's PhoneWriter Communicator.

In the mid-late 1990s, many mobile phone users carried a separate dedicated PDA device, running early versions of operating systems such as Palm OS, BlackBerry OS or Windows CE/Pocket PC.These operating systems would later evolve into mobile operating systems. 

In August 1996, Nokia released the Nokia 9000 Communicator, a digital cellular phone based on the Nokia 2110 with an integrated PDA based on the PEN/GEOS 3.0 operating system from Geoworks. 

Subsequent landmark devices included:

The Ericsson R380 (2000) by Ericsson Mobile Communications.The first device marketed as a "smartphone",it combined the functions of a mobile phone and PDA, and supported limited Web browsing with a resistive touchscreen utilizing a stylus.

In 1999, the Japanese firm NTT DoCoMo released the first smartphones to achieve mass adoption within a country. These phones ran on i-mode, which provided data transmission speeds up to 9.6 kbit/s.[21] Unlike future generations of wireless services.

Operating systems of Smartphones

Symbian was the most popular smartphone OS in Europe during the middle to late 2000s. Initially, Nokia's Symbian devices were focused on business, similar to Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices at the time. From 2006 onwards, Nokia started producing entertainment-focused smartphones, popularized by the Nseries.

In early 2007, Apple Inc. introduced the iPhone, one of the first smartphones to use a multi-touch interface. 

These new platforms led to the decline of earlier ones. Microsoft, for instance, started a new OS from scratch, called Windows Phone. Nokia abandoned Symbian and partnered with Microsoft to use Windows Phone on its smartphones. Windows Phone then became the third-most-popular OS. Palm's webOS was bought by Hewlett-Packard and later sold to LG Electronics for use on LG smart TVs. BlackBerry Limited, formerly known as Research In Motion, also made a new platform based on QNX, BlackBerry 10, which was later discontinued.

Fold-able OLED smartphones have been anticipated for years but have failed to materialize because of the relatively high failure rate when producing these screens.

A smartphone touchscreen

One of the main characteristics of smartphones is their screen. It usually fills most of the phone's front surface (about 70%); screen size usually defines the size of a smartphone. Many have an aspect ratio of 16:9; some are 4:3 or other ratios. . Liquid-crystal displays are the most common; others are IPS, LED, OLED, AMOLED and E Ink displays. In the 2010s, Braille screens, which can be used by visually impaired people are being developed. 

Accessories[edit]

Smartphone Accessories

As with cellphones, a range of accessories are sold for smartphones, including cases, screen protectors, power charging cables, add-on batteries, headphones, combined headphone-microphones which allow a person to use the phone without holding it to the ear, and Bluetooth-enabled powered speakers that enable users to listen to media files from their smartphones wirelessly. 

Different Types of Operating Systems for Smartphones

Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, 

 iOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a proprietary mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. primarily for its iPhone product line. 

Windows 10 Mobile

Main article: Windows 10 Mobile

Windows 10 Mobile (formerly known as Windows Phone) is from Microsoft. 

Tizen

Tizen is a Linux-based operating system for devices, including smartphones, tablets, in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) devices, smart TVs, laptops and smart cameras. 

Sailfish OS[edit]

Sailfish OS

The Sailfish OS is based on the Linux kernel and Mer.

Discontinued operating systems:

BlackBerry 10

Main article: BlackBerry 10

In early 2010s, BlackBerry Limited started making new devices on a new platform named "BlackBerry 10", which is based on their BlackBerry Tablet OS, to replace the BlackBerry OS.[85] While the company has started to release smartphone based on the Android operating system in 2015, with the BlackBerry Priv,[86] they claim there would be no new devices with BB10 and they would still support the OS.[87]

BlackBerry OS

In 1999, RIM released its first BlackBerry devices, providing secure real-time push-email communications on wireless devices. 

 Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile was based on the Windows CE kernel and first appeared as the Pocket PC 2000 operating system. Throughout its lifespan, the operating system was available in both touchscreen and non-touchscreen formats.

 Symbian

Symbian was originally developed by Psion as EPOC32. 

Firefox OS

Firefox OS was demonstrated by Mozilla in February 2012. 

 Bada

The Bada operating system for smartphones was announced by Samsung in November 2009.

webOS

webOS is a proprietary mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel, initially developed by Palm, which launched with the Palm Pre. 

 Palm OS

In late 2001, Handspring launched the Springboard GSM phone module with limited success.

MeeGo/Maemo/Moblin

MeeGo is an operating system created from the source code of Moblin (produced by Intel) and Maemo (produced by Nokia). 

Ubuntu Touch

Ubuntu Touch (also known as Ubuntu Phone) is a mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system developed by Canonical UK Ltd and Ubuntu Community.

Application stores for Smartphones

The introduction of Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch in July 2008 popularized manufacturer-hosted online distribution for third-party applications (software and computer programs) focused on a single platform. other smartphone manufacturers launched application stores, such as Google's Android Market (now Google Play Store) and RIM's BlackBerry App World in April 2009. In February 2014, 93% of mobile developers were targeting smartphones first for mobile app development.