Article on invention of smartphones

In 1878 the first phone call was made by Alexander Graham Bell with his invented device that name

is telephone. He had an idea to make a device that can communicate the message quickly without any delay. Actually he had that idea after his wife’s dead as he was far away when his wife is sick and till him come to know she had been dead.

After invention of telephone there is an evolution in the mass communication. In 1980 Motorola introduces some of the first cell phone the modified form of telephone which is wireless. But these cell phones are completely different as of today available cell phones. And also these are not cost efficient and over weighted.

After coming the cell phones there is many experiments on its look, weight and made cost efficient as everyone can approach it.

In 1993 the electronics company IBM and Bellsouth introduces the first smartphone publically although as compare to today’s smartphones, “Simon” had a touch screen that was capable to accessing E-mail.

Cell phones can make phone calls and even some have video recording capabilities but they do not have GPS capabilities along with a whole array of other applications. Text messaging is one of the biggest forms of communication today, especially among the younger folks.

After introducing the cell phones, there is again some modified form as smartphone is a mobile phone which is actually smart as with an operating system. Smartphones typically include the features of a cell phone with those of another popular consumer device, such as a personal digital assistant, a digital camera, a media player with or without a GPS navigation unit. Later smartphones include all of those plus the features of a touchscreen computer, including web browsing, Wi-Fi, 3rd-party apps, motion sensor, mobile payment and 3G.

Smartphones capability does not end at the Internet access, or at document editing. Smartphones are advancing at a very quick pace and some have the ability to talk to you, answer questions, turn off your lights when you are not there, open doors, and even watch movies.

During these early years, manufacturers like Palm, HTC, HP, Research in Motion (now BlackBerry), Samsung, Nokia and Motorola all made names for themselves. Dozens of smartphones were released over the next these years.

Operating System of Smartphone

There is two types of operating systems for smartphones, as one is the IOS which was introduces by Apple Inc. in 2007 and name as iPhone smartphones. It is one of the first mobile phones to use a multi-touch interface. The iPhone was notable for its use of a large touchscreen for direct finger input as its main means of interaction instead of a stylus, keyboard, or keypad typical for smartphones at the time.

The other operating system which is known as Android, in 2008, the release of the first phone to use Android called the HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1). Android is an open-source platform founded by Andy Rubin and sponsored by Google. Although Android's adoption was relatively slow at first, but it started to gain widespread popularity in 2010 and now it dominates the market. This OS version is along with major hardware and software developers (such as Intel, HTC, ARM, Motorola and Samsung) that form the Open Handset Alliance. The software suite included on the phone consists of integration with Google's proprietary applications, such as Maps, Calendar, and Gmail, and a full HTML web browser. Android supports the execution of native applications and third-party apps which are available via Google Play, which launched in October 2008 as Android Market. By Q4 2010, Android became the best-selling smartphone platform.

Both of these platforms led to the drop of the previous leading companies.

 Instead of these two operating systems, there are Microsoft for instance, started a new OS from scratch, in the form of Windows Phone, which is now the third largest OS. Nokia abandoned Symbian and partnered with Microsoft to use Windows Phone on its smartphones. But now the Nokia is totally takeover by Microsoft and eliminated from whole market

While PalmOS was bought by Hewlett-Packard (HP), turned into webOS, and later demised. BlackBerry also made a new system from scratch, BlackBerry 10 as BlackBerry OS.

The number of smartphones with physical keyboards dramatically declined over the course of a few years, and each repetition became more heavily dependent upon the touchscreen. Devices like the HTC Hero, HTC DROID Incredible, HTC EVO 4G, Motorola DROID X, and Google Nexus One became increasingly popular. That’s not to say devices with keyboards ceased to exist. BlackBerry experimented with devices like the Torch, a vertical-sliding touchscreen device with a QWERTY underneath, and the BlackBerry Style, a clamshell-style device. Motorola continued to make the popular, horizontal-slider DROID series, as well as devices like the Admiral and DROID Pro. HTC also made a few sliders and vertical QWERTYs itself. And BlackBerry, to this day, continues to create keyboard-bearing smartphones.

By 2012, Symbian had all but disappeared; Palm OS and Windows Mobile were dead in the water, superseded by webOS and Windows Phone; BlackBerry market share had dramatically diminished; and Android and iOS were left to rule the land.

The capacitive touchscreen also had a knock-on effect on smartphone form factors. Before 2007 it was common for devices to have a numeric keypad or QWERTY keyboard in either a candy bar or sliding form factor. However, by 2010, there were no top-tier smartphones with numeric keypads. As of 2014, BlackBerry Limited – with a 0.6% share of the market in Q4 2013 is the sole remaining brand of high-end smartphones with physical keyboards.

Most of what you see on the smartphone market today is much of the same. Very few manufacturers experiment with form factors and are instead tweaking internals, packing phones with ever-impressive specifications, and focusing on improving the individual components to make a greater whole. Smartphone displays are now surpassing 1080p resolution, cameras are encroaching on point-and-shoot quality, storage is slowly inching upwards, and processing power is quickly catching up to gaming consoles and personal computers.

Features like speaker quality, battery life, build quality and design, and storage space are under constant inspection.