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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Samsung Galaxy Note II in White

Samsung Galaxy Note II

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Samsung Galaxy Note II in White
Samsung Galaxy Note II in White
A photograph of the Galaxy Note II's S-Stripe RGB (non-PenTile) subpixels

The Samsung Galaxy Note II is an Android phablet smartphone.

The Nokia 9110 on the left and 9000 on the right.

Nokia 9000 Communicator

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The first product in Nokia's Communicator series, announced at CeBIT 1996 and introduced into the market on 15 August 1996.

The first product in Nokia's Communicator series, announced at CeBIT 1996 and introduced into the market on 15 August 1996.

The Nokia 9110 on the left and 9000 on the right.
The Nokia 9210 on the left and 9110 on the right.
Nokia 9110 open.
Inside of Nokia 9110.

The Communicator is one of the earliest smartphones on the market, after the IBM Simon in 1994 and the HP OmniGo 700LX, a DOS-based palmtop PC with integrated cradle for the Nokia 2110 cellular mobile phone, announced in late 1995 and shipped in March 1996.

Black iPhone 3GS

IPhone 3GS

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Black iPhone 3GS
Black iPhone 3GS
The reverse of the iPhone 3G (left) is almost identical to that of the 3GS, except for the latter's reflective silver text which now matches the silver Apple logo, replacing the 3G's grey text.

The iPhone 3GS (originally styled iPhone 3G S, also known as iPhone 3) is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the third generation iPhone and the successor to the iPhone 3G.

Motorola Mobility

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American consumer electronics and telecommunications company, and a subsidiary of Chinese multinational technology company Lenovo.

American consumer electronics and telecommunications company, and a subsidiary of Chinese multinational technology company Lenovo.

The installation of the 2013–2014 Motorola Mobility logo near the main Google campus, following Google's purchase. The office on the photo has since been closed.
Black RAZR V3
1st generation Moto X
Moto X Style
2nd generation Moto G
Moto G4 Plus
Moto G7 Plus
Moto E5 Plus
Nexus 6
Droid Turbo
Moto Z 1st generation with Moto Style Shell
Moto M
First generation Moto 360
Original Motorola logo
Motorola Mobility logo between 2011 and 2013.
Motorola logo between 2013 and 2014.
Motorola logo from 2015 to 2016.

Motorola primarily manufactures smartphones and other mobile devices running the Android operating system developed by Google.

A Treo 300

Palm Treo

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A Treo 300

The Palm Treo (stylized as Trēo) is a discontinued line of smartphones originally developed by Handspring, which was bought by Palm, Inc. They were then manufactured and maintained by Palm, Inc. Treos had a number of integrated features such as the ability to check the calendar while talking on the phone, dial directly from a list of contacts, and send email messages.

Screenshot of Maemo 5

Maemo

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Screenshot of Maemo 5
The Nokia N900 has the Linux-based Maemo 5 OS
Versions of Maemo and of some of the forks
OS2005 Desktop
OS2006 showing Pimlico Dates
OS2007 Desktop showing OMWeather
OS2008 Desktop
Maemo 5 Screenshot
Maemo and its related mobile operating systems

Maemo is a software platform originally developed by Nokia, now developed by the community, for smartphones and Internet tablets.

iPhone XS in Gold

IPhone XS

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iPhone XS in Gold
iPhone XS in Gold
iPhone XS in Gold
iPhone XS Max in Gold

The iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max (stylized and marketed as iPhone and iPhone Max; Roman numeral "X" pronounced "ten") are smartphones designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. They are the twelfth-generation flagships of the iPhone, succeeding the iPhone X.

Form factor (mobile phones)

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Its size, shape, and style, as well as the layout and position of its major components.

Its size, shape, and style, as well as the layout and position of its major components.

A slate is a smartphone form with few to no physical buttons, instead relying upon a touchscreen and an onscreen virtual keyboard for input.

Front and back of Canon PowerShot A95 (c.2004), a once typical pocket-sized compact camera, with mode dial, optical viewfinder, and articulating screen.

Digital camera

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Camera that captures photographs in digital memory.

Camera that captures photographs in digital memory.

Front and back of Canon PowerShot A95 (c.2004), a once typical pocket-sized compact camera, with mode dial, optical viewfinder, and articulating screen.
Hasselblad 503CW with Ixpress V96C digital back, an example of a professional digital camera system
At the heart of a digital camera is a CCD or a CMOS image sensor.
Digital camera, partly disassembled. The lens assembly (bottom right) is partially removed, but the sensor (top right) still captures an image, as seen on the LCD screen (bottom left).
The Bayer arrangement of color filters on the pixel array of an image sensor.
Relative sizes of sensors used in most current digital cameras.
DSC-W170 is a subcompact camera with lens assembly retracted
Disassembled compact digital camera
Sony DSC-H2
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II introduced 2016
Nikon Z7 introduced 2018
Sony Alpha ILCE-QX1, an example of a modular, lens-style camera, introduced in 2014
Cutaway of an Olympus E-30 DSLR
A San Francisco cable car, imaged using an Alkeria Necta N4K2-7C line scan camera with a shutter speed of 250 microseconds, or 4000 frames per second.
A Nikon D200 camera with a Nikon 17-55 mm / 2,8 G AF-S DX IF-ED lens and a Nikon SB-800 flash. Flashes are used as attachment to a camera to provide light to the image, timed with the shutter of the camera.
Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 lens mounted on a Canon 7D camera body. Lenses of varying lengths can be equipped onto main camera bodies to provide different perspectives for an image taken.
Sale of smartphones compared to digital cameras 2009–2013
A CompactFlash (CF) card, one of many media types used to store digital photographs
Digital camera (Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10) user interface, indicating the approximate count of remaining photos.
Digital single-lens reflex camera
Mini CD
Microdrive (CF-II)
USB flash drive
3.5" floppy disks
Sony's Proprietary Memory Stick

Digital cameras are now widely incorporated into mobile devices like smartphones with the same or more capabilities and features of dedicated cameras (which are still avaliable).

Nokia 808 PureView

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PureView Pro Sensor with image circle and the 16:9 and 4:3 image areas
The 808 PureView compared to its successor, Lumia 1020
The camera of the 808 has a very large and noticeable hump

The Nokia 808 PureView is a Symbian-powered smartphone first unveiled on 27 February 2012 at the Mobile World Congress.