Perception of Smartphones
Célia Levy
2012840302
Research on smartphones
This paper is about how people see smartphones today. To do so, I’m going to see what the purpose of smartphones was when it was first released, then, though a research among my family and friends, I will describe the use of it today and what the expectations are about this new tool of communication.
I. What is a smartphone?
A smartphone is considered to be a “compuphone” or an intelligent mobile phone that has the functions of a personal digital assistant. You can tape your data on the keyboard or on the touchscreen. You can manage many things thanks to a smartphone: it offers many applications such as agenda, calculator, web browser, emails, GPS, instant messenger, etc.
II. History
IBM Simon, the first smartphone was created in 1992. The major applications were a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail, and games. It had no physical buttons to dial with but a touchscreen.
But at this time, the mobile network wasn’t developed enough to welcome this innovative product. We’ll have to wait until 2003 with the arrival of EDGE and 3G to have an extension of the smartphone market. Nokia (Symbian), LG, Samsung and Blackberry (RIM) were then the main competitors in this sector.
The real shift of smartphones happened in 2007 when Apple released its revolutionary product: iPhone (iOS). With its outstanding features, its very efficient touchscreen and the App Store, the iPhone hit a huge success and the smartphone democratization begun.
In the same year, Google purchased Android, an operating system for mobile devices and stood as the main competitor of Apple iPhone.
Today, the competitors today are : * Android (Google) * Blackberry (RIM) * iPhone (Apple) * Palm/WebOS (Palm/HP) * Samsung (Bada) * Symbian (Nokia) * Windows Phone (Microsoft)
Here are some figures of the market share.
III. Ground research
I asked 17 people among my
2012840302
Research on smartphones
This paper is about how people see smartphones today. To do so, I’m going to see what the purpose of smartphones was when it was first released, then, though a research among my family and friends, I will describe the use of it today and what the expectations are about this new tool of communication.
I. What is a smartphone?
A smartphone is considered to be a “compuphone” or an intelligent mobile phone that has the functions of a personal digital assistant. You can tape your data on the keyboard or on the touchscreen. You can manage many things thanks to a smartphone: it offers many applications such as agenda, calculator, web browser, emails, GPS, instant messenger, etc.
II. History
IBM Simon, the first smartphone was created in 1992. The major applications were a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail, and games. It had no physical buttons to dial with but a touchscreen.
But at this time, the mobile network wasn’t developed enough to welcome this innovative product. We’ll have to wait until 2003 with the arrival of EDGE and 3G to have an extension of the smartphone market. Nokia (Symbian), LG, Samsung and Blackberry (RIM) were then the main competitors in this sector.
The real shift of smartphones happened in 2007 when Apple released its revolutionary product: iPhone (iOS). With its outstanding features, its very efficient touchscreen and the App Store, the iPhone hit a huge success and the smartphone democratization begun.
In the same year, Google purchased Android, an operating system for mobile devices and stood as the main competitor of Apple iPhone.
Today, the competitors today are : * Android (Google) * Blackberry (RIM) * iPhone (Apple) * Palm/WebOS (Palm/HP) * Samsung (Bada) * Symbian (Nokia) * Windows Phone (Microsoft)
Here are some figures of the market share.
III. Ground research
I asked 17 people among my