The Smart Phone

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The smart phone is more popular among in particular young people these days. The mainstream form of cell phone is changing from Galapagos cell phone to smart phone. According to research by Impress R&D, the saturation level of smart phones is 39.9% in Japan, and increased 10% for last five month. I am also using a smart phone. I show you the advantage of smart phone.

A smart phone is a cell phone which is based on computer and has various functions. Smart phone has a lot of function such as connection of the Internet, reading PDF, Word and Excel, multi media player, camera, games, GPS, and Wi-Fi etc.

1.    Operating system

There are two mobile operating systems which spread in Japan. It is Android and iOS.
Android is the operating system which Google is developing. It is most common operating system in Japan. The smart phone which I am using adopt Android OS. iOS is the operating system which Apple is developing and the smart phone such as iPhone has.

And there are the other operating systems, for example, Black Berry, Bada, Symbian, and Windows Phone.

2. History

1996 and 1999 are important years for smart phone. In 1996, Nokia, which the maker in Finland now has the second largest share of cell phone in the world, announced “Nokia 9000 Communicator.” It was longwise straight type mobile phone and a device which realized set of cell phone and PDA. It is said that it is the origin of modern smart phone. In 1999, Research In Motion (RIM), which is the maker in Canada, put “Black Berry” into the market. It had better been called the pocket bell with a key board which can use an E-mail at the beginning of sale. Now it became the smart phone which has many functions such as push type E-mail, voice telephone call function, browsing the website on the Internet, and referring to Microsoft Office application file and PDF file.

3. Mainstream

Now, the mainstream of smart phone is Android smart phone and iPhone. iPhone is the smart phone which Apple put into the market in USA, 2007. iPhone was sold one million between the first three days of sale. Android smart phone is the smart phone which adopts Android operating system. Many companies such as Intel, HTC, Qualcomm, KDDI, and NTT DOCOMO develop and sell this type smart phone.