What You Need To Know Before You Pick Your Next Smart Phone

Picking the right phone for you depends on your desired features. If you are the kind of person who regularly interacts with the internet, a smartphone would be the best option for you. If you are someone who communicates regularly via text messaging and phone calls, a normal phone with a few smartphone features may be your thing. If you are someone who is looking for a phone that has a long battery life and the ability to run for a long time without charge, a smart phone may not be the smart choice for you. While other industry giants such as Palm and Windows have focused on creating PDAs, Blackberry have combined the three different devices, a cell phone, a pager and a PDA into one device to create a smart phone.

Manufacturers have also coupled the smartphone with the power to get email ‘on-the-go’, which has made a new level of interaction available. As the cell phone market evolved, many manufacturers focused on building cell phones which were essentially mobile phones without the PDA or email capabilities. Blackberry continued to grow in the market, eventually controlling a huge 81% of the market, shadowed only by Windows Mobile. In 2007, all this began to change when Apple introduced the smart phone of the ‘future’, the iPhone. Up until this point, the only company that were making touch screen phones that were close to the experience that the iPhone promised to deliver was HTC, an Asian cell phone company.

Since the introduction of the iPhone, the market for smart phones has changed dramatically. BlackBerry smartphones still control a large portion of the market but have lost about 30% of the market to the iPhone and other touch screen phones from Android manufacturers such as HTC, Samsung and now Nokia. The big question is where does this leave the average person who is looking for a new phone? As phone industry continues to grow and as smart phones continue to be the most dominant type of mobile phone available, this means that all phones in the future will have some kind f smartphone features installed as standard. With the growth of internet social networking and messaging, sites like Facebook are pushing for more people to be on-line regularly. With the power of a smartphone to connect to the internet at all times, this will become a common feature on many mobile phones in the future.