BahamasLocal.com Tuesday Tech Tips: A Smartphone or Dumb Phone?

Tue, Feb 5th 2013, 04:42 PM

A Smartphone or Dumb Phone?

Since the cell phone was born the “Smartphone” is becoming the fastest selling cell phone of all time. The first versions of smartphones were a combined function of a personal digital assistant (PDA) with a mobile phone. Then we saw the functionality of the music player, digital camera, pocket video and even a GPS built into the phone. In 2004 Apple gathered 100 employees to start building a cell phone which they called “IPhone”. It was a top secret mission called “Project Purple”. Then on the 9th of January 2009, Steve Jobs unveiled the IPhone to the world. From then, the Smartphone have taken off quicker than anyone can imagine.

Businesses today, that have a web presence now have to have their website Smartphone friendly. It has to have mainly text with smaller sized images so that it is faster to load. Today analysts say that smartphones will be the most important computing appliance for employees going forward, surpassing laptops.

Some people ask… Why a Smartphone? The answer is straight forward.. you can just about do anything with a smartphone.

• manage your personal life,

• manage your work life, and all your communications

• search for information on the web more easily

• receive and review documents wherever you are

• Listen to music or watch movies while stuck on the bus, in a traffic jam, at the beach, or even at the in-laws.

In-Stat did a report in March 2009 and they said that by 2012 the smartphone will more than double their share of the cell phone market by 20%. I am pretty sure this is well past the 20% mark now… Employees now need and crave all the highly intuitive tools and applications that smartphones now offer.

The most popular smartphones are:

• IPhone

• Samsung SII and Samsung SIII

• HTC One

• Nokia Lumia

• Motorola Droid Razr

BTC now have a large variety of smartphone’s starting at only $99. You will find a list of the BTC stores on BahamasLocal.com/btc Just last week BTC announce the first ever smartphone packages starting with the IPhone at just $41 a month.

A dumb phone is a phone that does not have internet, email or app capability.

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