Smartphone Reviews

Welcome to Smartphone Reviews. A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone which combines the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone. Today’s models typically also serve as portable media players and camera phones with high-resolution touchscreens, web browsers that can access and properly display standard web pages rather than only mobile-optimized sites.

Smartphone Operating Systems

Today’s smartphones also provide GPS navigation, Wi-Fi and mobile broadband access. The term smartphone is usually used to describe phones with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone, although the distinction can be vague and there is no official definition for what constitutes the difference between them.

The definitions also shift over time since many phones that are considered feature phones today can have capabilities that exceed those of phones that had been promoted as smartphones in the past.

While some feature phones also may be thought of as handheld computers integrated with mobile telephones, a feature phone is typically based on proprietary firmware, while a smartphone runs a more open and complete mobile operating system.

According to a ComScore report released on May 12, 2011, nearly one in five smartphone users are tapping into check-in services like Foursquare and Gowalla. A total of 16.7 million mobile-phone subscribers used location-based services on their phones in March 2011.

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