What is smart phone?

A Smartphone is a mobile device that provides Cellular features along with Internet access capabilities. Additionally they come with media players, high resolution cameras, touch screens, GPS navigators, Wi-fi and several other user applications. SmartPhones have powerful computing abilities similar to that of a personal computer.

There is a break neck speed of consumers adopting smart phones, faster than any hi tech gadget in the history. As smart phones are proliferating, the smart phone users are cutting the cord of computers. Currently 63% of the web traffic is generated by computers, which soon will decline to 46% by 2015 according to a report by Cisco. There are now fewer and fewer things that make laptop better than the smart phones.

A smart phone combines the functioning of a PDA and a mobile phone. To understand more about smart phone we need a bit more detailing about the PDA – a Personal Digital Assistant also known as palmtop computer, is a device that functions as a personal information manager. Current PDA’s have the ability to connect to the internet or can access intranet and extranet via WiFi or wireless wide area network. Younger generation below 30 with low incomes found smart phones as suitable replacements for buying expensive computers and paying DSL or cable modem bills every month. In a manner of saying, Smartphones integrate the functions of a Cellphone and a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) or a Handheld PC.