While we all know what cellular phones are, we do not always know how to differentiate them from Smartphones.

Smartphones have mobile operating system.

You can think of a Smartphone like a mini computer that can also make and receive calls. Though there lacks an industry-standard definition of a Smartphone, the simplest way to tell a cell phone apart from a Smartphone is to determine whether or not the gadget has a mobile operating system.

A mobile operating system is much like what is powering your personal computer at work or at home. In the mobile industry, though, the software goes by different names. While cell phones do not have operating systems at all, Smartphones can be powered by:

1. iPhone OS
2. Google’s Android
3. Windows Mobile
4. Symbian OS
5. RIM’s BlackBerry
6. Palm’s WebOS
7. Linux

The iPhone OS comes from other operating systems (OS) that are related to Unix. Google’s Android and Palm’s WebOS are built on top of Linux. Smartphones can usually view and sometimes edit documents (i.e. from Microsoft Office) while cell phones cannot.

While many cellular phones now have full QWERTY keyboards, this is a basic requirement for Smartphones. The keyboard is the same as computer’s keyboard. On a mobile phone, it can come in the form of hardware (a physical but small keyboard) or software (tapping digital keys on a touch screen such as with the iPhone).

Cellular phones can typically send and receive text, picture and video messaging. Many cellular phones can email, too. Smartphones, though, usually go a step further by syncing with the email server of your personal or corporate provider.

History

In 1992, IBM (International Business Machines) designed the first Smartphone. It was called Simon. The Smartphone was presented that year as a concept gadget in Las Vegas at the computer industry trade show known as COMDEX.

On the other hand, the first cellular phone was demonstrated 19 years before the first Smartphone. On April 3, 1973, Dr. Martin Cooper a Motorola employee called researcher Dr. Joel S. Engel of AT&T’s Bell Labs using a prototype from Motorola called the DynaTAC.

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