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Essential Guide Explaining Smartphones

Introduction – What is a smart phone?

Firstly, to understand what smartphones are, you need to understand the meaning of the term ‘hybrid device’. This describes a single product that performs more than one different function. In relation to mobile handsets, what defines smartphone hybrid devices is that they have advanced computing operating systems with a processing power much like a PC. Plus they combine all this with a camera and music player.
This means that smartphones can complete complex functions when it comes to web browsing, application performance and streaming multimedia, allowing you to seamlessly multitask advanced actions and services while on the move. With the rapid advancements made in this type of technology and its popularity with the public worldwide, these pocket wonders increasingly include just about everything except the kitchen sink.
The following guide will explain with the main factors that make these mobile phones so smart.

Summary of Key Smartphone Functions

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Who will be the leader of the smartphone market?

The iPhone has dominated the news for years, ever since the first one launched in November 2007. Android is slowly catching up with iPhone, but earlier this month, Orange announced Windows new operating system, Windows Phone 7. The HTC Mozart will be on Orange’s shelves at the end of October and Orange are counting themselves lucky they have this exclusive deal.  However, one has to ask, could this be the handset to upset the Android and Apple market share?

According to Gartner, the Android market share is continuing to grow, whereas the Windows Mobile operating system market share has fallen.  There were high hopes that Windows was to be a competitor to the Android OS, but it failed to compete. The figures speak for themselves. According to Gartner, Microsoft has just a 5% share of the global smartphone market compared with 9% a year ago. Google’s Android system has a 17% market share and last year it only had 2% market share. These are the results before Windows 7 Phone was released.   Microsoft may see their market share improve, but critics are doubtful.

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