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What makes a cell phone a smartphone?

Joe Ford

What makes a cell phone a smartphone?

Smartphone. A smartphone is a cell phone that allows you to do more than make phone calls and send text messages. Smartphones can browse the Internet and run software programs like a computer. Smartphones use a touch screen to allow users to interact with them.

What is difference between Android and smart phone?

The term “Smartphone” refers to any phone that can use applications such as internet browsers. In other words, Smartphones are computers, not just phones. The term “Android” does not refer to one specific Smartphone though. Android is an operating system like DOS or Microsoft Windows.

How do I know if my phone is a smartphone?

The easiest way to check your phone's model name and number is to use the phone itself. Go to the Settings or Options menu, scroll to the bottom of the list, and check 'About phone', 'About device' or similar. The device name and model number should be listed.

What is the first smartphone?

Rob Stothard/Getty People didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple released the iPhone.

Is an iPhone a smartphone?

The short answer is no, the iPhone is not an Android phone (or vice versa). While they are both smartphones — that is, phones that can run apps and connect to the Internet, as well as make calls — iPhone and Android are distinct things and they are not compatible with each other.

Is smart phone one word?

The word "smartphone" is one word and not capitalised. All the dictionaries now have it as one word. The reason Ngram gives "smart phone" (two words) as having higher frequency was because of it was spelled that way for SEO (search engine optimisation) reasons in earlier online text.

Is Samsung a smartphone?

SAMSUNG SMARTPHONES. Founded back in 1969 as Samsung Electric Industries, Suwon, South Korea-headquartered Samsung Electronics today makes everything from televisions to semiconductors. … It has recently developed smartphones running Tizen OS, as an alternative to its Android-based smartphones.