Microsoft Smartphones
Microsoft Smartphones
Smartphones-An Overview
Just when most people thought that mobile phones could not get better than the Apple iPhone, a series of Smartphones have made their glorious entrance. The concept of applications for smartphones, is not new. Actually, it dates back to 1992, when the first smartphone, named Simon, was invented. It included such apps as a clock, address book, email, notepad, ability to send and receive faxes, as well as games. It was a legend before his time.
The first actual Smartphone was sold in 2000, when the Ericsson R380 was released. It was the first phone that was actually called 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 new platform for smart phones, appeared. This was the first Smartphone to feature the use of applications, or "apps". Apple's 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 several types of applications. For example, on an iPhone, there are apps for virtually everything known to man. If one were to consider the number of apps available on iPod, they would seemingly never get to the end of it all. The list is endlessly extensive.
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 use your BlackBerry smartphone with literally tons of applications for everything you want to customize even as you travel. BlackBerry App World has as of this article's writing 5 million users worldwide.
HTC is an Asian company that specializes in the use of applications for Smartphone. It credits itself with creating several of cell phones firsts, including being the first company to feature the Microsoft Smartphone. It has many, many applications and can be downloaded for free from the Android Market. It has received somewhat mixed reviews. A user says it was noticeable that the battery will be hot in your phone and tended to fade quickly. However, other users give the HTC apps rave reviews.
The Nokia E62 smartphone is another hot smartphone on the market. It has various features and applications such as N-series, E-series, Xpress Music, and Classic, etc. and claims to offer many free apps.
The Windows platform is also widely used on Smartphones. The Verizon network has a whole line of smartphones that are Windows enabled. You can get most of the normal software to work on these, including Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Internet Explorer. There are some smartphones that were made just to use the Microsoft Windows network.
There is a lot of competition between Android, Windows, and iPhone platforms. These each have their pros and cons. You want to do your research and make sure you are choosing the right smartphone for you.
Like with all Smartphones, they have their various games. Some of the most popular games being played on Apple Smartphones for instance are "Tapulous Tap Revenge", a style-rhythm game, and "Tap Tap Revenge". In fact, it was estimated in 2009 that three of the best games on smartphones were Tap Tap Revenge, Touch Hockey: FS5, and the old favorite, Pac-Man.
GPS-Short for Global Positioning Systems, has become an increasingly used source of travel information help in recent years. It is a computerized map or a navigation system. In addition, yes, there is an app for that too. In fact, you will find that many smartphones are equipped with GPS functions. In addition, you can virtually purchase any Smartphone that has these GPS accessories built into the system.
Why a smartphone may be right for you:
If you are someone who is constantly on the run, often social networking sites will benefit you 2-5 times per day via Smartphone. The average smartphone today is equipped with applications for the hottest social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. In view of all users to stay with your friends and family around the world updated at any time on any day.
Today it seems that everyone has a smartphone, but some don't, and you could perhaps be one of them. There is plenty in stock at your local retail or computer store. Get yours today!
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Commoditisation of Android offering in the Smartphone market is leading to low profits claims Needham & Company's Charlie Wolf who told investors last week that the smartphone market is at a critical point at the moment, driven by the flood of android Programming devices and the recent arrival of Windows Mobile Phone 7.The smartphone market could soon follow the flat panel TV market where vendors are struggling to make a profit. The one exception claim Analysts will be the Apple iPhone programmers.
Wolf predicted that, the Windows Phone 7 will gain some market share in 2011, at the expense of Android. However several analysts disagree claiming that the only way that Microsoft will grow market share is by "buying" shelf space with carriers like Telstra who are being offered big incentives to stock the Microsoft Smartphone offering.Wolfe claims that Android Mobile Phones moved "into a vacuum created by the implosion of Windows Mobile Application Developers" and that Microsoft will not give up trying to win that market share back.He claims that the Google platform will become "horribly fragmented" as vendor after vendors attempts to grab market share with an Android Smartphone offering.
Ultimately, says Wolf, "commoditisation, accompanied by deteriorating prices and gross margins appears inevitable for licensees of the android programmers and Windows Phone 7 operating systems."This argument is something we've discussed before in relation to e-readers. While Amazon led the way into this new market with the Kindle, a host of other makers arrived and the price of e-readers quickly tumbled in a race to the bottom. The fast followers tended not to have as powerful an ecosystem as Amazon's, though in some cases their technology may be better. Amazon has failed to innovate with the Kindle, which now finds itself facing strong competition from the iPad. 2011 may see the e-reader quickly relegated to fringe-device status.Wolf's prediction for the smartphone business is similar, with one important difference: He thinks Apple may be the "last man standing"in the profitable smartphone game.
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