Smartphone TrendsMohammed Elsammak

What is Smartphone

● Smartphone is a small all-in one device used for communication and computing functions.

● Smartphone uses modern operating systems that deliver modern and smart services to users.

Smartphone vs Cellular phone

The simplest way to tell a cell phone apart from a smartphone is to determine whether or not the device has a mobile operating system.A mobile operating system is much like what’s powering your personal computer at home or at work.

Features Cell Phone Smartphone

Local and Long Distance Calling Yes Yes

Camera Most Yes

Text Messaging Most Yes

Photo Transfer Capability Some Yes

Email No Yes

Internet Access No Yes

Wi-Fi Capability No Yes

Music Player No Yes

GPS Navigation No Yes

Access to Apps for Social

Networking, Travel Planning, and

Games

No Yes

Headphone Jack No Yes

Status Symbol Never Some

History of smartphones

The first cell phone was introduced in 1973by Motorola.It weighs 2.3 KGM and batterylasts for 2 hours and requirescharging up to 10 hours.

History of smartphones cont.

IBM designed the first smartphone in 1992. It was called Simon. In addition to its ability to make and receive cellular phone calls, Simon was also able to send and receive faxes, e-mails and cellular pages. Simon featured many applications including an address book, calendar, appointment scheduler, calculator, world time clock, electronic note pad, handwritten annotations and standard and predictive stylus input screen keyboards.

Modern Smartphones OS

● Symbian OS (Nokia)● WebOS (Palm)● BlackBerry (RIM)● Linux (Ubuntu Community)● Firefox OS (Mozilla)● Windows Mobile (Microsoft)● Android (Google)● iOS (Apple)

Symbian OS

● Developed by Symbian Inc.● Used mainly by Nokia and

SonyEricsson devices.● Main Development language was C++.

But can also be programmed using Python, Java ME, Flash Lite and Ruby.

● RIP at 2010

WebOS

● Made by Palm.● Power both HP and LG devices (not just

smartphones).● Development language (Java).● First it was called Palm OS.● Linux-kernel based.● Palm was sold to HP and WebOS was sold

to LG.

BlackBerry

● The very first RIM device was the Inter@ctive Pager 900 in 1996.

● In 2003, the more commonly known convergent smartphone BlackBerry was released, which supports push email, mobile telephone, text messaging, Internet faxing, Web browsing and other wireless information services.

● The most recent BlackBerry devices are the BlackBerry Passport, BlackBerry Classic, and BlackBerry Z30

● Development language: Java.● Sales dropped deeply from 2012.

Ubuntu Touch/Ubuntu Phone

● Started 2011.● HTML5, QML, C

or C++ and JavaScript

● Free and large community to start working.

Firefox OS

● Publicly demonstrated in February 2012

● Works on ZTE and T2Mobile devices besides some Nexus and Xperia versions.

● If you are web developer, you know everything there is to building Firefox OS Apps (HTML5, JS and CSS)

Windows Phone

● Powered by Windows Mobile (formerly Windows CE which started in 1996).

● OS is Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8.1 ● launched in 2010● By 2007, it was the most popular smartphone software in the

U.S., but this popularity faded in the following years due to competition (iOS and Android).

● Development Language (.Net “C#”).● At 2011, Microsoft made a partnership with both Nokia and

Sony and all Nokia devices besides some xperia ones were powered by Windows Phone 7.

● In the late of 2014, Some Nokia devices started using Android OS “Business is Business :)”.

Android

● First initialized by Android Inc. in 2003.● Google acquired Android Inc. in 2005.● Unique for its architecture (one Kernel, multiple top layer for

various devices).● Linux-based and open source.● Development language (Java).● Powers Samsung (Galaxy) and Google devices (Nexus).● As Android is developed by Google, it does allow the instant

upgrade for other devices.● Latest version announced by Google at Google I/O is Android M (to

be released this year).

iOS

● Powered by Apple.● Powers Apple mobile devices.● First introduced in 2007 but SDK was introduced in

2008.● Development Languages (Objective-C and Swift).● Latest version announced by Apple at WWDC was

iOS9.

Market share

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