A report on Smartphone

IBM Simon and charging base (1994)
The Nokia 9110 Communicator, opened for access to keyboard
Several BlackBerry smartphones, which were highly popular in the mid-late 2000s
The LG Prada with a large capacitive touchscreen introduced in 2006
The original Apple iPhone; following its introduction the common smartphone form factor shifted to large touchscreen software interfaces without physical keypads
A Meizu MX4 with Flyme OS
The Nokia 9 PureView features a five-lens camera array with Zeiss optics, using a mixture of color and monochrome sensors.
The Huawei P30 features three rear-facing camera lenses with Leica optics.
A Moto G7 Power; its display uses a tall aspect ratio and includes a "notch".
A Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus, featuring a "hole-punch" camera
Mobile/desktop convergence: the Librem 5 smartphone can be used as a basic desktop computer
Smartphone with infrared transmitter on top for use as remote control
"Device options" menu of Samsung Mobile's TouchWiz user interface as of 2013, accessed by holding the power button for a second
The HTC Desire, a 2010 smartphone with optical trackpad and search button.
A smartphone touchscreen
Tooltip in Kiwi Browser, a Google Chromium derirative, reveals the full URL by hovering over the tab list using the stylus on a Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
Optical track pad sensor of an HTC Legend, 2010.
Inserted memory and SIM cards
A high-capacity portable battery charger (power bank).
Several smartphones running Google's Android OS
A Palm Treo 300 smartphone (2002)
A Nokia N70 smartphone (2005) running Symbian OS, which was highly popular in Europe and Asia in the 2000s
Mobile payment system.
A New York City driver holding two phones
A user consulting a mapping app on a phone
A sign along Bellaire Boulevard in Southside Place, Texas (Greater Houston) states that using mobile phones while driving is prohibited from 7:30 am to 9:00 am and from 2:00 pm to 4:15 pm
E-waste in Agbogbloshie

Portable computer device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit.

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IBM Simon and charging base (1994)

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iPhone 5 in Slate

IPhone 5

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iPhone 5 in Slate
iPhone 5 in Slate
Apple Lightning connector
Comparison between the 30-pin port of the iPhone 4s (top) and Lightning port of the iPhone 5 (bottom)
Example of an iPhone 5 with chipped coating.
Apple's A6 chip is 22% smaller than the Apple A5 and consumes less power.

The iPhone 5 is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the 6th generation iPhone, succeeding both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, and preceding both the iPhone 5S and 5C.

Gold iPhone 5S

IPhone 5S

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Gold iPhone 5S
Gold iPhone 5S
The iPhone's nano-SIM card tray is made of aluminum.
Comparison between Lightning port of the iPhone 5c (top) and iPhone 5s (middle) and the 30-pin port of the iPhone 4s (bottom)

The iPhone 5S (stylized and marketed as iPhone 5s) is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the seventh generation of the iPhone, succeeding the iPhone 5, and unveiled in September 2013, alongside the iPhone 5C.

Palm m505, running Palm OS 4.0

Palm OS

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Discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996.

Discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996.

Palm m505, running Palm OS 4.0
Calculator as seen on Palm OS 4.1
Date Book
HotSync
To Do list
Note Pad

Later versions of the OS have been extended to support smartphones.

Screenshot of Edge gameplay mocked up on a Sony Ericsson W880i mobile phone

Mobile game

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Video game that is typically played on a mobile phone.

Video game that is typically played on a mobile phone.

Screenshot of Edge gameplay mocked up on a Sony Ericsson W880i mobile phone
Clone of Tetris being played on a TI-83 Plus
A fan-made game similar to the game Portal
A mobile game displaying a full-screen interstitial ad for a different game

The term also refers to all games that are played on any portable device, including from mobile phone (feature phone or smartphone), tablet, PDA to handheld game console, portable media player or graphing calculator, with and without network availability.

An LCD screen used as a notification panel for travellers

Liquid-crystal display

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[[Image:LCD layers.svg|thumb|Reflective twisted nematic [[liquid crystal]] display1. Polarizing filter film with a vertical axis to polarize light as it enters.

[[Image:LCD layers.svg|thumb|Reflective twisted nematic [[liquid crystal]] display1. Polarizing filter film with a vertical axis to polarize light as it enters.

An LCD screen used as a notification panel for travellers
LCD in a Texas Instruments calculator with top polarizer removed from device and placed on top, such that the top and bottom polarizers are perpendicular. As a result, the colors are inverted.
A Casio Alarm Chrono digital watch with LCD
LCD-Glass-sizes-generation
18 parallel CCFLs as backlight for a 42-inch (106 cm) LCD TV
A pink elastomeric connector mating an LCD panel to circuit board traces, shown next to a centimeter-scale ruler. The conductive and insulating layers in the black stripe are very small.
Prototype of a passive-matrix STN-LCD with 540×270 pixels, Brown Boveri Research, Switzerland, 1984
A comparison between a blank passive-matrix display (top) and a blank active-matrix display (bottom). A passive-matrix display can be identified when the blank background is more grey in appearance than the crisper active-matrix display, fog appears on all edges of the screen, and while pictures appear to be fading on the screen.
A Casio 1.8 in color TFT LCD, used in the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P93A digital compact cameras
Structure of a color LCD with an edge-lit CCFL backlight
Close-up of a corner of an IPS LCD panel.
This pixel-layout is found in S-IPS LCDs. A chevron-shape is used to widen the viewing-cone (range of viewing directions with good contrast and low color shift).

Small LCD screens are common in LCD projectors and portable consumer devices such as digital cameras, watches, digital clocks, calculators, and mobile telephones, including smartphones.

BlackBerry Limited

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Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity.

Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity.

Logo as Research In Motion, used prior to January 30, 2013

Originally known as Research In Motion (RIM), it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets.

Huawei

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Chinese multinational technology corporation headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

Chinese multinational technology corporation headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

Huawei expo at IFA 2018 in Berlin
Huawei P9 was the first smartphone to be co-engineered with a Leica camera
A Huawei Band 4 Smartwatch from 2019
The Huawei P30 with rear triple-lens Leica optics camera
Huawei Matebook 2-in-1 tablet
AITO M5 front quarter view
AITO M5 rear quarter view
AITO M5 interior

It overtook Ericsson in 2012 as the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, and overtook Apple in 2018 as the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, behind Samsung Electronics.

iPhone 4 (GSM model) in black

IPhone 4

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iPhone 4 (GSM model) in black
iPhone 4 (GSM model) in black
Steve Jobs presenting the iPhone 4 in 2010
The iPhone 4 is the first iPhone model to have two cameras. The LED flash for the rear-facing camera (top) and the forward-facing camera (bottom, left of the speaker) are not present in older models.
Apple A4 chip used in the iPhone 4
An iPhone 4 A1332 with a micro-SIM card removed with a paper clip, showing its SIM card compartment.
The iPhone 4 is constructed of glass faces and a metal rim.
An iPhone 4 next to its Bumper Case.
Steve Jobs demonstrating the iPhone 4 to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on June 23, 2010
A girl takes pictures with an iPhone 4. Havana, Cuba, 2015

The iPhone 4 is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the fourth generation of the iPhone lineup, succeeding the iPhone 3GS and preceding the 4S.

The Nokia N8 is the first device to run on the Symbian^3 mobile operating system

Nokia N8

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The Nokia N8 is the first device to run on the Symbian^3 mobile operating system
Rear view of the Nokia N8 illustrating the 12-megapixel autofocus lens with Carl Zeiss optics and xenon flash

The Nokia N8 is a touchscreen-based smartphone developed by Nokia.

Application software

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Computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than one relating to the operation of the computer itself, typically to be used by end-users.

Computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than one relating to the operation of the computer itself, typically to be used by end-users.

In recent years, the shortened term "app" (coined in 1981 or earlier ) has become popular to refer to applications for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the shortened form matching their typically smaller scope compared to applications on PCs.