Smartphone Features Explained

Smartphone is also a mobilephone which is having more fun features like camera, touchscreen, internet browsing, touchscreen, efficient operating system, Gaming, better performance and multimedia tools. Actually you can call it as “minicomputer”, because it is that much efficient and can do most of the basic things as computer. Currently, smartphones having wide variety of uses and it is depends on their specifications. Android, Windows phone, Blackberry and Apple iOS are main smartphone operating systems competing in the market. In this post, I will explain some of the common smartphone features.

Smartphone Features: Operating system (OS)

Most of the people going to buy a new smartphone, the first consideration is operating system. With Symbian OS, begin the smartphone era and which is owned by Nokia. With this OS, Nokia developed low-end smartphones and have better hype in the mobilephone market. Then There are several new OS will come and older ones are out of date. Some of the new OS are Android, Windows phone, Apple iOS, Blackberry, Firefox OS, Sailfish OS, Tizen and Ubuntu Touch.

Android OS is completely free of cost, user-friendly and licensed as open source. Currently, android OS is owned by Google which still maintained as open source. Any software developers can customize the platform as for their own business purposes and also can create needful android apps, which published through GooglePlay store.

Today, android smartphone are most used in the world wide and available in the range of $60 to $800. Windows phone is updated version of Windows mobile operating system, which developed by Microsoft. With Windows phone OS, Microsoft combines their product such as Xbox, OneDrive, Bing and Office. It is completely unique in look and style. But people is not that much attracted in this OS, because of the less user-friendly.

 Apple iOS is specially made for apple devices like iPhone and iPads. It is developed by Apple. iOS is one of the stable operating system in the world which very easy to use and user-friendly. The main cons side is that less free apple apps are available and most of them you need to pay above $0.99.

Blackberry is another simple smartphone OS system which enables the simplicity in usage, smooth internet browsing and uses special encryption methods to secure the phone. Most of the business people uses Blackberry smartphones, because it offers both security and work effectiveness. Also there are other operating systems are used in the smart phone which explained in the later posts in very detail. Let us see the next main feature of smart mobiles.

Smartphone Features: Display Screen

For smartphone, display screen is really important and it defines the size of them. Now, screen are touchscreen type and improved from the resistive touch to highly sensitive capacitive touch. The captive touch screens are higher response than resistive type. In the new smartphones, around 85-90% of screen covered by touchscreen and it is measured diagonally (distance between two opposite corners of screen rectangle). The screen sizes available are in the range of 3 to 5.7 inchs. The smartphone having screen size above 5.2 inches called as “phablets”.

Why size of the smartphone is important?

The screen size gives better idea of easy handling and portability. Just think like that…if you have Smartphone and you couldn’t use it with one hand. That is worst situation and it affects the ease of use and handling abilities of phone. But in the other sides there are several advantages over the bigger sized screen smartphones. It also uses various HD display technologies like IPS display, LED, LCD, AMOLED, OLED etc.

Smartphone Features: Processor

Processor is mainly refereed as heart of smartphone device, which provide power to do computer like things in it. Processor controls all the tasks like opening user interface, apps usage, gaming, controls the camera etc. All they are related to processor performance and speed. If your smartphone is loaded with faster processor and have ability to do multi tasking at a time, then your device overall performance will improved. The no of cores in processor and clock speed is two important features which mainly affects the performance of the system. Currently available processors are Qualcomm snapdragon, Apple A9, MediaTek, Motorola X8 and Samsung Exynos. I will explain details in later posts of honest review.net.

Smartphone Features: Camera

Before going to buy smartphone, people always looks for the camera pixels. They did not care about the lens quality and performance, due to lack of knowledge about the phone cameras. It is not like DSLR, but it is not as complex as DSLR. The Megapixel (MP) doesn’t mean the camera performance, because smartphones having 13 MP can take pictures better than 20 MP in the current market. The performance in different light conditions and image processors are important for camera and then only produces good pictures even in low light conditions. The image processor of camera controls the speed of autofocuing, storage device and resulting high quality pictures.

Smartphone Features: Battery

If you have smartphone with good fun features, but don’t have enough batterylife; not even getting a 16-18 hours. Then it is not good thing. So, battery of cell phone is really important and then only it can provide power to working of all of the above features. In today’s market, cell phone manufactures consider batterylife of phone as a critical item. Therefore they are developing high battery capacity cell phones and it is ranging from 1700mAh to 4000 mAh. You will see more depth in battery performance with respect to talktime, standby time and other tasks in the upcoming posts.

Smartphone Features: Network Selection

Mobile network selection is also important, but it is depends on the customer’s choice. Each one of them has different uses with their own phone. Some are using smartphones for better internet browsing, video calling etc. and others are for basic calling, multimedia purposes etc. That doesn’t matter. The main thing is that phone will better support the networks available in the customers region or geo locations. Currently, the available networks modes in the smartphones are CDMA (code division multiple access), GSM (Global system for mobile communications), HSPA (High speed packet access or 3G), HSPA+ (high speed packet access plus or 3.5G) and LTE (Long term evolution or 4G).

The CDMA network technology usage is less, because customers don’t have freedom to change the network provider. Most of them are uses the GSM technology, which is provide customer choice and network flexibility. The internet users are increasing day by day. For that high speed supporting smartphone are needed and manufactures are comes with new phones supports 3G, 3.5G and 4G or LTE networks. Also smartphones provide Wi-Fi calling using your local area network. To enable this call functions, you need internet data, social apps like whats app, skype, Facebook messenger etc. It will helps to minimize the phone bills.

Smartphone Other Features

It provides Bluetooth data transferring, USB tethering, Wi-Fi access, high quality speakers, more supporting apps and games. In today's market, it also offers more and more advanced features like NFC (Near field communications), wireless charging, OTG, Heat rate monitoring, curved screens etc. NFC helps to transfer data from one phone to another, when are come to close.

Overall, smartphones are pre-loaded mini computers which can most of the things as a computer can do. There are different categories of smartphones mainly categorized as Low-end, Mid-end and high-end ones. Each of them have different abilities a compared inside with them. You will see each smartphone features in detailed manner with lot more information. Keep reading honest review network. To know more about smartphones features, see the wiki page.

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