Mobilephones: Basic Phone Features Explained

Mobilephones or cellphones are one of the greatest competing electronics mobile devices, which provide both entertainment and accessibility in all over the world. It helps to communicate with two persons in two different places with full freedom and portability. It enables the wireless communication all over the world. Today, the mobilephones technologies are well developed and going on its advance mode vary rapidly. When you just turn back and look at the history of cellphones. You could see the advancement in mobile technology and its demand and growth in the market.

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In starting, only the phone calling facilities are provided to users. But the development in the industry so fast and also invent the additional features like Short message service (SMS), MMS, email, internet browsing, Bluetooth, mobile games, infrared, Wi-Fi, camera etc. Anyway the journey to old bulky cell phones to today’s smartphone is really interesting and makes a lot of difference in both facility and portability. To know more the history, see wiki page now.

Watch Evolution of Mobilephones

Mobilephones should need a communication channel, which provided by cellular network operators. With the development of cellular network technology, mobile phones got better hype in the market and lot more manufactures are came in the market. Major mobile phone manufactures are Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Motorola, Blackberry, Lenovo, Sony, Panasonic, Micromax, etc.

Basic Mobilephones Features

All mobilephones have some common features and parts. No one can exclude these items while manufacturing it. Let us see some of the important features of basic mobilephones.

Battery: Every portable electronics devices should need a power source to do their desired function. Like that mobilephones contains battery as power source which may removable or non-removable. (E.g: Li-ion rechargeable battery).

Display Screen: It is one of the important feature, which is very basic black white display ins old phones. It enables to show the phone calls numbers, text messages, contacts etc. Now, the mobilephone display is lot more improved and various display technologies like LED, AMOL, LCD etc available in latest smartphones. The screen size also categorizes the smartphones like large phones (5.4 inchs or higher), Medium (5.0 to 5.3 inches) and small screen phones (less than 4.9 inches).

Keypad/Touch interaction: At the old stage, there is only keypad interactions are available. It is very noisy and responsive speed too slow. But, now the interaction become touch and the market is fully filled with touch based mobile phones ( also called as smartphones).

Network: To enable communication or call your friend using phone need a proper network connectivity. There are lot more network providers like Vodafone, Airtel, Idea, MTS and other international network operators. They provide network card as SIM/CDMA type. The SIM is removale and CDMA is non-removable or inbuilt type network cards. In the current situation, GSM to nano SIM are available.  

IMEI number: IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) is number provided to each mobile for both communication and security purposes. Without registered IMEI number you can’t access network for communication and it is unique for every mobilephones. These are the basic features needed to a cell phone for doing its desired function.

What are different Mobilephones Types?

Basic Phones:-

If you are using the phone only for the purpose of calling or messaging, basic phones are well suited for you. They are very simple handy design, highly portable, easy to use and less complicated than feature phones. Screen size is too small and 50% area is coverd by the traditional keypads. Older basic phones little bulky in terms of thickness and also size varies as per the manufactures.

Feature Phones:- 

These are the one of the basic type of cell phone which contains only phone calling or messaging or both. This type of low-end mobilephones called as “Feature Phones”. Feature phones have basic features such as battery (either removable or non-removable), SIM/CDMA, keypad, small size display, etc. The platform used in feature phones is depends on their manufactures. If you are looking for 15 years back, Nokia brand having java platform and symbian feature phones. With latest models they also contain internet facilities, VGA camera and RGB display with low quality. The keypad is little improved and resistive type touchscreen phones are available at the older times.  

Smartphones:- 

Actually, this is new era of smartphones which almost takedown the mobilephones market as compared with others. Because smartphone is a combination of basic and feature phones and it also provide more fun things better than the other phones. Smartphone main feature is support of operating system. Currently, available smartphone OS are Apple iOS, Android, Windowsphone and Blackberry OS with good performance SoC Processors.

The Android OS have great support of different apps which are very helpful for users and it also helps android mobilephones have better hype in the market than other OS. The blackberry smartphone mainly used for business applications and provide better security to users.

Now, the network (3G or 4G) connectivity also plays major part in the smartphones market. The internet browsing speed and video calling facilities provided by smartphone depends on the camera functions and network connectivity speed. Overall, smartphones are the current trend of users who loves internet browsing, photography, watching movies, listening music, playing mobile games and more fun things with mobile apps.

Major MobilePhone Manufactures

Here honest review.net provides some of the major mobilephones manufactures or brands list with their official website.

Apple	Official Website
Sony	Official Website
Motorola	Official Website
Samsung	Official Website
LG	Official Website
Blackberry	Official Website
Asus	Official Website
Microsoft	Official Website
HTC	Official Website
Micromax	Official Website
Lenovo	Official Website
ZTE	Official Website
Huawai	Official Website

Mobilephones is a mobile device which helps to connect or call with a person from one place to another wirelessly. This post explains the mobile phone main features, types of phones and major mobilephone brands. In the upcoming posts, Honest review network will update more details about different mobilephones types, different parts, what are the thing consider before buying cellphones etc.

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