The Smartphone Prologue

The  mobile  platform  has vastly  progressed  in  the  past few years. Ten  years  back  how  many  of  you  actually knew  what a  smartphone is?  I  am  not  quite  sure whether  any touch  phone  was  there in  the  Indian  market at all!  Today  we  almost  spend  our  every  bit  of our energy  in  scrutinizing  the  specs  of  a  phone  before buying  it.

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Gone are those days when people would call you a freak if you discussed about a phone's ram or processor. These days RAM and Processor are quite common terms among the tech lovers. We all are driven by the Bandwagon Effect  of checking the specs properly before buying any flagship phone.

 
What is a smartphone?

"Defined in Wikipedia as a mobile phone with an advanced mobile operating system. They typically combine the features of a cell phone with those of other popular mobile devices, such as personal digital assistant (PDA), media player and GPS navigation unit. Most smartphones have a touchscreen user interface, can run third-party apps and are camera phones. Most Smartphones produced from 2012 onwards also have high-speed mobile broadband 4G LTE internet, motion sensors, and mobile payment mechanisms."

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DID YOU KNOW?

The world's first smartphone was launched way back in 1994 by IBM. Click this link to find out more!



Mobiles and other handheld devices are now even considered as a secondary  replacement for laptops and desktops since -
 

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1. They are handy hence portable.
2. They are less bulky compared to laptops.
3. They are generally cheaper.
4. They are fashionable and are the latest trend.

So what the essential requirements of a smartphone ?

• They should meet the primary criteria of quality voice calling and texting.
• They should ensure high speed internet usage.
• They should afford multitasking.
• They should meet the daily needs of professionals, service men, office workers like word processing, powerpoint presentations, email, mms facilities, printing, storing valuable data etc.
• They should be ideal for watching movies, pictures and listening to songs for full on entertainment.
• They should enable  social networking , update us on daily news and progress etc.

  

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• They should be capable of capturing pictures (#selfie is a popular twitter trend)

  

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• and lastly the most necessary for many of us ----- GAMING.

Now that was a long list...............

 

So what are the aspects of a smartphone that needs to be looked at -

• The processor - the soul of a phone. It should have multiple cores along with high CPU frequencies for lag free performance. Ex :Snapdragon , Mediatek ,Exynos etc. 

•  RAM - The performance largely depends on this.

• Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) : Now for 3D games , 4K videos, 4G connectivity a top class GPU is an elementary necessity.
• Operating System (OS) : The brain of the phone. Collaborates and necessitates all the activities.
• Camera: If you are a photo freak consider the camera before buying a phone.
• Connectivity : In today's generation Bluetooth, Wifi , USB connectivity are must for a phone.

 
I will give you the latest information on the best processor , RAM and other aspects of the modern generation phones. Along with it I will recommend the the budget phones with good specs and give an info on the best phones in the market.

 
Stay tuned for my next post since this is just a Prologue to something exciting!!!!!!


If terms like Snapdragon, Mediatek  ,Adrenos fascinate you, wait for my next post specially for the discussion of a phone's architecture! 

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