Smartphones are mobile phones that have additional computer-like functionality, allowing users to perform tasks beyond making phone calls such as emailing and editing documents. Surveys found that 31% of US mobile users owned a smartphone in 2010, rising to an expected majority by the end of 2011. Smartphones accounted for 19% of the 1.6 billion mobile phones sold globally in 2010. They offer benefits like organization, flexible working, and constant access to information, but also have disadvantages such as being expensive and potentially complicated to use.

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3. a device that lets you make telephone calls, but also adds in features that you might find on a personal digital assistant or a computer--such as the ability to send and receive e-mail and edit Office documents.

4. Nielsen report that 31% of US mobile phone owners have a Smartphone as of December 2010, and expect Smartphone's to become the majority by the end of 2011. eMarketer predicts that Smartphone ownership will reach 43% of the US mobile population by 2015. According to figures for 2010 released by Gartner, smart phones accounted for 297 million (19%) of the 1.6 billion mobile phones sold that year. That's 72.1% more Smartphone sales than in 2009.

6. Keeping you organized - Smartphone handsets can function as personal organizers, with electronic diaries, contact lists, and automatic reminders. Flexible working - as with a PDA, you can use your Smartphone to take notes, review and edit your appointments, contacts and documents, all while you're on the move. Information at your fingertips - more and more services are being made available on smart phones, from access to maps and directions to television transmissions with news coverage or weather reports to traffic information and scheduling alerts - which means your business can always stay one step ahead of what's going on

7. They are expensive They can be complicated to use They are less personal. They are expensive

9. In conclusion we can see that there are many advantages and disadvantages regarding smart phones. I think if smart phones are used wisely and effectively they can cause no harm.