Smartphones

This is my article about smartphones based on my experiences. I am currently learning Information and Communication Technology at school.

Nowadays more people are using smart phones. Smart phone is part of mobile computing. Smartphones are more advanced than normal touch-pad mobile phones of the 2000s, which are mostly produced by Finnish company Nokia. The smartphones that we have nowadays started with the advent of the iPhone in 2007 and the Samsung Galaxy S series since 2010. Features of a typical smart phone are: the screen is touchable with a finger, easy navigation, smart phones now have their own operating systems besides computers (Android and iOS) and the most interesting part, there are many mobile applications (apps) to choose from and smartphone users benefited from the apps. Examples of smartphones used by people nowadays are Samsung Galaxy S series, iPhone and Sony Xperia. 

Tablet computers are also common, also because of smart phones since the launch of iPad in 2010. The tablet computers of nowadays is a bigger version of smartphones and much of the features are similar to that of a smartphone, except you cannot make a call from the tablet computer. Much smaller versions of tablet computers are also available; one example is the iPad Mini. Samsung has also embraced the world of photography through mobile computing with the launch of Samsung Galaxy Camera. Samsung also wants smartphone users to do note taking through smartphones with Samsung Galaxy Note, with includes a built-in S Note app.

In the past decade, mobile phones are popular. Mobile phones have brought us to a generation where most people would communicate wherever they go through voice calls or making an SMS message (in Western countries people would call it making a text message). Making an SMS message also involves the shortening of certain words in the message because of the small capacity of characters allowed in an SMS message. SMS messaging is popular among youth people.