A smartphone (also called smart phone, multifunction phone or ordiphone in Quebec or even multifunction mobile in France) is a mobile phone generally having a touch screen, a digital camera, the functions of a personal digital assistant and certain functions of a laptop.
Data entry is most often done using a touch screen or, more rarely, a keyboard or stylus. According to the principle of a computer, it can execute various software / applications thanks to an operating system specially designed for mobiles, and therefore in particular provide functionalities in addition to those of conventional mobile phones such as: the agenda, television , calendar, web browsing, viewing and sending email, geolocation, dictaphone / tape recorder, calculator, compass, accelerometer, gyrometer visual voicemail, digital mapping, etc. . The most sophisticated devices benefit from voice recognition and speech synthesis.
You can personalize your smartphone by installing additional applications such as games or utilities via a different online application store for each operating system. It is necessary to have an Internet connection via a mobile phone network or a Wi-Fi network to be able to use their potential.
The precursors of smartphones appeared at the end of the 1990s, but it was not until 2007, the year of the marketing of the iPhone (first smartphone with multi-touch interface), that this market expanded considerably and exceeded in a few years that of basic mobile phones.
A basic mobile phone is a mobile phone limited to basic functions, mainly phone calls and sending and receiving SMS and managing a directory. Multimedia functions (photography in particular) can be added.
A basic mobile phone is also called a classic mobile phone, a simple mobile phone or a basic mobile phone, a classic mobile phone, a simple mobile phone.
