Smartphones – The Future of Telecommunications

The last decade was the time when cell phones boosted their popularity and… lost it. To be more precise cell phones have become so wide spread and irreplaceable that most people treat cell phones as normal ever-being devices notwithstanding the fact that ten years ago few people could afford cell phones and cell phones were considered a luxury rather than necessity.

PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) are small handheld portable computers that allow convenient use of technologies. A PDA helps you to perform a lot of tasks and do just the same things you are doing on your normal PC.

With so many devices available you are to carry at least several of them with you in case you want to perform all your everyday tasks. But smartphones are designed to consolidate all your devices into one simple, small and easy-to-use package. Smartphones are basically cell phones with the opportunity for the user to install, configure and run various applications.

Unlike most cell phones smartphones offer more customization options so that you can adjust the devices for your particular way of doing things. In fact smartphones are a combination of PDAs and cell phones and may be either a cell phone with additional PDA capabilities or a PDA that allows placing and receiving phone calls.

The tasks smartphones are designed to perform:
- Make and receive phone calls
- Personal information management (making notes, marking important issues at the calendar, creating to-do lists, etc)
- Cooperation with laptops and desktop computer
- Wi-Fi connection
- Running application such as Microsoft Outlook, Apples' iCal calendar, etc
- Checking and sending e-mails
- IM (instant messaging)
- Various word processing programs
- Video games
- Playing audio and video files

Smartphones are constantly developing and more and more additional features are offered. Integration of PC's capabilities with cell phones' capabilities is to be achieved in small and convenient devices. Today smartphones allow you to create banking accounts and manage your credit card through your smartphones.

Smartphones with basic capabilities features are affordable today for the majority of people whereas more advanced devices may cost a pretty some of money. However enthusiasts are ready to invest money into smartphones that makes future development of smartphones possible.