Smartphones - What Are They?

Do you remember the old first generation cell phones? They were big and heavy as a brick and you have to basically carry it around like a suitcase. The battery life was awful and sometimes you were only able to talk for half an hour before you need to recharge it. Now, with the new Smartphones like the iPhone and Blackberry's, you can talk for a longer time and you can do other things on it like surfing the internet. If you ask someone five or six years ago that you can do all this, they might think you're crazy.

Here are a couple of reasons why smartphones are so successful:

1. You can look for directions via the GPS function. If you get lost in certain part of New York City, all you need to do is to search on your iPhone on where you want to go and it will tell you the direction you have to walk. It's simple and easy to use.

2. The smart phones are much more powerful than a personal computer a decade ago. It is amazing how much processing power these tiny machines can do. You can run high quality, full motion pictures without it being jerky. In the old personal computers, you had to buy a special graphics card and extra RAM to run these videos.

3. It is easy to use and there's a wide range of application you can use. Apple ITunes has more than 65,000 applications for the iPhone. You can choose a variety of applications from personal business programs to fun and simple games.

4. You can use it as a portable music player. Remember lugging around a huge portable CD player around? Well, you don't need to anymore.