Various types of Smartphones and Differences between them. Mobile phones trends. History of smartphones (Android, iOS,..).

1. Smartphone Trends
Mohammed Elsammak

2. What is Smartphone
● Smartphone is a small all-in one device used
for communication and computing functions.
● Smartphone uses modern operating systems
that deliver modern and smart services to
users.

3. Smartphone vs Cellular phone
The simplest way to tell a cell phone apart from
a smartphone is to determine whether or not
the device has a mobile operating system.
A mobile operating system is much like what’s
powering your personal computer at home or at
work.

4. Features Cell Phone Smartphone
Local and Long Distance Calling Yes Yes
Camera Most Yes
Text Messaging Most Yes
Photo Transfer Capability Some Yes
Email No Yes
Internet Access No Yes
Wi-Fi Capability No Yes
Music Player No Yes
GPS Navigation No Yes
Access to Apps for Social
Networking, Travel Planning, and
Games
No Yes
Headphone Jack No Yes
Status Symbol Never Some

5. History of smartphones
The first cell phone was introduced in 1973
by Motorola.
It weighs 2.3 KGM and battery
lasts for 2 hours and requires
charging up to 10 hours.

6. History of smartphones cont.
IBM designed the first smartphone in 1992. It
was called Simon.
In addition to its ability to make and receive
cellular phone calls, Simon was also able to
send and receive faxes, e-mails and cellular
pages. Simon featured many applications
including an address book, calendar,
appointment scheduler, calculator, world time
clock, electronic note pad, handwritten
annotations and standard and predictive stylus
input screen keyboards.

7. Modern Smartphones OS
● Symbian OS (Nokia)
● WebOS (Palm)
● BlackBerry (RIM)
● Linux (Ubuntu Community)
● Firefox OS (Mozilla)
● Windows Mobile (Microsoft)
● Android (Google)
● iOS (Apple)

8. Symbian OS
● Developed by Symbian Inc.
● Used mainly by Nokia and
SonyEricsson devices.
● Main Development language was C++.
But can also be programmed using
Python, Java ME, Flash Lite and Ruby.
● RIP at 2010

9. WebOS
● Made by Palm.
● Power both HP and LG devices (not just
smartphones).
● Development language (Java).
● First it was called Palm OS.
● Linux-kernel based.
● Palm was sold to HP and WebOS was sold
to LG.

10. BlackBerry
● The very first RIM device was the Inter@ctive
Pager 900 in 1996.
● In 2003, the more commonly known convergent
smartphone BlackBerry was released, which
supports push email, mobile telephone, text
messaging, Internet faxing, Web browsing and
other wireless information services.
● The most recent BlackBerry devices are the
BlackBerry Passport, BlackBerry Classic, and
BlackBerry Z30
● Development language: Java.
● Sales dropped deeply from 2012.

11. Ubuntu Touch/Ubuntu Phone
● Started 2011.
● HTML5, QML, C
or C++ and
JavaScript
● Free and large
community to start
working.

12. Firefox OS
● Publicly demonstrated in February
2012
● Works on ZTE and T2Mobile devices
besides some Nexus and Xperia
versions.
● If you are web developer, you know
everything there is to building Firefox
OS Apps (HTML5, JS and CSS)

13. Windows Phone
● Powered by Windows Mobile (formerly Windows CE which
started in 1996).
● OS is Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8.1
● launched in 2010
● By 2007, it was the most popular smartphone software in the
U.S., but this popularity faded in the following years due to
competition (iOS and Android).
● Development Language (.Net “C#”).
● At 2011, Microsoft made a partnership with both Nokia and
Sony and all Nokia devices besides some xperia ones were
powered by Windows Phone 7.
● In the late of 2014, Some Nokia devices started using Android
OS “Business is Business :)”.

14. Android
● First initialized by Android Inc. in 2003.
● Google acquired Android Inc. in 2005.
● Unique for its architecture (one Kernel, multiple top layer for various
devices).
● Linux-based and open source.
● Development language (Java).
● Powers Samsung (Galaxy) and Google devices (Nexus).
● As Android is developed by Google, it does allow the instant
upgrade for other devices.
● Latest version announced by Google at Google I/O is Android M (to
be released this year).

15. iOS
● Powered by Apple.
● Powers Apple mobile devices.
● First introduced in 2007 but SDK was introduced in
2008.
● Development Languages (Objective-C and Swift).
● Latest version announced by Apple at WWDC was
iOS9.

16. Market share

17. References
● http://www.slideshare.net/lis186/smartphone-market-trends?qid=ecd05aa6-bc39-4b01-b838-
9912af5976d9&v=default&b=&from_search=3
● http://cellphones.about.com/od/coveringthebasics/qt/cellphonesvssmartphones.htm
● http://www.ebay.com/gds/Should-I-Buy-a-Smartphone-or-Cell-Phone-/10000000177629615/g.html
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry
● http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/developers
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
● http://www.smartinsights.com/mobile-marketing/mobile-marketing-analytics/mobile-marketing-statistics/
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#iPhone_OS_1.x