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Smartphones
How do smartphones work? Is there any chance how they will advance in technology in the future? How is one simple device used as a computer? I need advice!
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Mobile phones were of course communications devices originally. Functionality was added and added, really to keep the market alive and growing. After all, how many house phones do most people buy? One when the old one breaks usually! It's best to think of smartphones not as phones with added functionality, but as physically small computers with comms functions. They have, and will continue to develop alongside side microprocessor technology. Spec, hence performance, always increasing, and costs effectively falling. The photographic side, likewise. More and more megapixels, enhanced image processing onboard. Screen resolutions and characteristics likewise mirror what is currently the state-of-the-art. In many cases the phones actually drive the state of the art, with the developments then being transferred to what we more traditionally consider a 'computer'. Like a laptop. One area most phone manufacturers work had on is keeping power consumption as low as possible and developing batteries which hold the maximum charge possible, with the most desirable discharge characteristics. Expect constant improvement here. Each maker would love a really high-performance smartphone that went for very long periods between charges. This would give that particular make a huge market advantage, because that's exactly what we would all (as customers) like. All the R&D they put into this field will surely produce a some big advances.
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The technology for Smart Phones is forever revolving. It seems every 6 months manufacturers like Apple or Samsung have a new phone with completely different features than the previous phone and those before it.
How is a smartphone used as a computer? You can read messages on it but e-mail and text, listen to music, draft notes, network socially, do calculations, use the internet, store things, take pictures, record audio/video on a phone and likewise a computer.
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