SmartphonesThis stuff’s the future, son.

Presented by Pat, James, Andrew, Kevin, and

Afeique

Over 3.3 billion cell phonesubscriptions!

People starting to e-mail andsurf exclusively from phones

Better chips allows phones to do more! And of course, you get cooler designs to go

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The Future

Currently, entire market is dictated by service providers

Shifting towards paradigm where providers just give you the connection

Cell-phones becoming more and more OS and computer-like because of shift

Moving towards greater support for 3rd party applications

What’s up?

No industry definition for a “smartphone” Most smartphones are mobile PC-like

devices with the integrated features of cell phones

All phones are slowly becoming “smart” Many corporations utilize smartphones to

help keep employees better connected

Some Basics

Smartphones (“phones that can do more”) started with the IBM Simon in 1992.

Simon had: calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, notepad, e-mail, and games

Nokia quickly began producing their own smartphones, the Nokia 9000 series

Quick History

Started as a two-way pager Made it big because of its strong

e-mail application Very handy calendar and

address-book features Development platform allows

for countless other applications. Over 8 million subscribers and

17% market share.

The BlackBerry

Essentially a mobile PC. Runs an intuitive interface

utilizing a touchscreen. And yes, it can make calls too. Development platform + ubiquity

= lots of other applications (gcc on iPhone ftw)

iPhone (do uPhone?)

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