Smart Phone

'Smartphone' is one of the trendy words of our days' society. Have you ever wondered exactly what a smartphone is, and what exactly makes the difference between a common mobile phone and a smartphone, or between a computing device and a smartphone? What makes a phone to be smart, and why is this word so tossed around a lot? These are the answers I am trying to find in this article, and I hope it will make the things clear.

Beautiful Smart Phones

The Sony Ericsson line of smart phones have long had a loyal fan following. The P990i was announced about a year before market availability, but when it did go on sale at the end of 2006, interest was still high because its features were still not outdated. Though it pushed the right buttons among the tech-geek crowd for its features, users were soon disappointed to find that there were quite a few bugs in its built-in software. A quick Internet search will bring up criticisms of the UIQ 3.0 implementation not only on the P990i, but also on the M600i and W950i.

While there have been firmware upgrades, users of those smart phones were recently up in arms because of talk suggesting that there would be no more development and bug fixes on UIQ 3.0. Shortly after, Sony Ericsson announced one more firmware release for the P990i and W950i devices in August, though none was promised for the M600i.

Reviewed here is the latest P1i, one that moves away from the form factor of the previous P-series devices significantly. It uses UIQ 3.1, which will enjoy the bulk of development efforts from firmware and software developers.

Smartphones are definetely successful products on handheld devices market. They are very useful to busy individuals, and they are one of the elementary devices one should own in our modern society. A challenge for a smartphone users would be to discover and use all the features of the phone, and I think it's very important to take advantage of what your smartphone offers you. There are plenty of $500 smartphone users who use the devices for voice communications, and who are amazed when one geeky friend shows them what the wonderful device can do. I think this happens because of the lack of interest of the users, and because they spend too little time on exploring their smartphones. This exploration I would say that has the same importance as knowing the tools you use at work.