1. SMART PHONES BY: Nomthandazo Fezeka Rikhotso

2. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION SUPPORTING ARGUMENT STATISTICS RESEARCH FINDINGS DIFFERENT OPERATING SYSTEMS IMAFES OF SMART PHONES CONCLUSION REFERENCS

3. 1. INTRODUCTION A SMART PHONE IS A MOBILE PHONE THAT OFFERS MORE ADVANCED COMPUTING ABILITY AND CONNECTIVITY THAN A CONTEMPORARY FEATURE PHONE THE FIRST SMART PHONE WAS CALLED SIMON,IT WAS DESIGNED BY IBM IN 1992

4. SUPPORTING ARGUMENT IN MY OPINION,SMARTPHONES HAVE REVOLUTIONALISED DIGITAL CULTURE SMART PHONES ARE AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT TOOL AMONG BOTH CONSUMER AND BUSINESS SEGMENTS. WITH SMARTPHONES MOST OF THE INFORMATION YOU NEED IS WITHIN ARMS REACH. WE GET TO CREATE AND UPLOAD CONTENT IN A SEAMLESS WAY OF USING ONLY ONE SMALL DEVICE. STUDENTS OFTEN USE MOBILE DEVICES SUCH AS SMART PHONES FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES ie.research.

5. STATISTICS ACCORDING TO FIGURES RELEASED BY GARTNER,SMART PHONES ACCOUNTED FOR 297 MILLION (19% OF 1.6 BILLLION MOBILE PHONES. eMarketer PREDICTS THAT SMART PHONES OWNERSHIP WILL REACH 43% OF THE U.S MOBILE POPULATION. GARTNERS ANALYSIS OF 2010 SMART PHONE SALES SHOWS THE SYMBIAN OPERATING SYSTEM DOMINATING MARKET SHARE. IDC CITE THE TOP 5 SMART OHONE MANUFACTURERS BY MARKET SHARE FOR Q4 2010 AS NOKIA,APPLE RESEARCH IN MOTION, SAMSUNG AND HTC.

6. INFORMATION ABOUT RESEACRCH THE IMPACT OF SMART PHONES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE MEDIA,Rick Joubert COULD WINDOWS PHONE 7 BEAT THE iPHONE, P C MEDIA. THE RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE CAPABILITIES OF SMART PHONES ARE CHANGING THE FACE OF TECHNOLOGY.

7. RESEARCH FINDINGS LATEST INMOBI RESEARCH FINDS CONTINUED SIGNIFICANT SMARTPHONE IMPRESSION GROWTH IN THE ASIAN MARKET. NOKIA DEVICES REPRESENT 9 OF THE TOP 10 HANDSETS,TRAILING ONLY THE APPLE iPHONE. iPHONE OS AND ANDROID GAINED +9.3 SHARE POINTS FROM JULY TO OCTOBER NOKIA AND SYMBIAN COLLECTIVELY REPRESENT 41.2 %.

8. DIFFERENT OPERATING SYSTEMS SYMBIAN DESIGNED FOR NOKIA WINDOWS ANDROID LINUX etc. The most important software in any smart phone is it’s hardware operating system. an operating system manages the hardware and software resources of smartphones.

9. IMAGES OF VARIOUS SMART PHONES

10. CONCLUSION SMART PHONES HAVE TRANSFORMED THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT MOBILE PHONES AND HAS FORCED COMPETITORS IN THE HARDWARE,SOFTWARE AND MOBILE OPERATOR SPACE TO RAISE THEIR GAME. IN CONCLUSION,SMART PHONES HAVE HAD POSITIVE EFFECTS ON ALL SPHERES AND ASPECTS OF LIFE.

11. REFERENCES Inmobimedia (5 JANUARY 2011).URL:www.inmobi.com/press release 2011. Joubert,r. (n.d) URL: http://www.rickjoubert.com Reed,b.(18 June 2010)www.pcworld.com