Smart Handheld Device:
- Access to the Internet via WiFi
- Touch-Screen: about 3 inches - about 10 inches
- On-screen keyboard or keyboard with buttons
- Microphone, speaker and headphone outlet
- Camera for picture and video
- Tilt- and motion-detector (ie, accelerometer)
- Standard apps: e.g. app-store, web browser, email, contacts, calendar
- Downloadable apps
- Music player
- Video Player
- (Extra: Compass, GPS)
Smartphone definition: Small Smart Handheld Device + SMS, MMS, mobile data channel.
Surfpad definition: Large Smart Handheld Device with screen of 7-10 inches. (Extra: mobile data channel)
E-book reader definition: Apparatus with E-paper display of at least 7 inches. Access to a PC which downloads books from the web.
Then there's the definition of phone. Here's what phone used to mean, until about a decade ago: "electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds". Not a trace of the Internet there.We are using the word phone for a device that does almost anything. It's a networked general purpose computer with a speaker and a microphone and some other stuff.Now may be the time for another word for our favorite device. How about Gencom (= General communications device) or Unicom (= Universal communications device) or Sec (= Second brain) or Infoman/Iman (= Information manager).
Quoted phone definition taken from http://phone.askdefine.com/
Surfpad definition: Large Smart Handheld Device with screen of 7-10 inches. (Extra: mobile data channel)
E-book reader definition: Apparatus with E-paper display of at least 7 inches. Access to a PC which downloads books from the web.
Then there's the definition of phone. Here's what phone used to mean, until about a decade ago: "electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds". Not a trace of the Internet there.We are using the word phone for a device that does almost anything. It's a networked general purpose computer with a speaker and a microphone and some other stuff.Now may be the time for another word for our favorite device. How about Gencom (= General communications device) or Unicom (= Universal communications device) or Sec (= Second brain) or Infoman/Iman (= Information manager).
Quoted phone definition taken from http://phone.askdefine.com/
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