Do you remember your first phone? Surely a new generation has not yet found Siemens A35, which was almost the desires for adolescents. In those days, other phones were popular, including the same Siemens, Motorola, Nokia, Philips ... Today, the situation in the mobile device market has changed greatly and "rule the ball" completely different companies. In particular, Samsung and Apple.
However, it is necessary to notice the fact that if 10-15 years ago, sales leaders were the most ordinary phones, complemented by many different functions, today their place was taken. Of course, the first so far you can buy in any cellular salon, however, there are very few functions in them. But the cost of such a device cannot but rejoice.
Mobile phone is a portable communication means, which is used for the most part for voice communication, as well as for sending and receiving SMS messages. There is no operating system in it.
The smartphone is, if you can put it, the same mobile, but it has all the capabilities of the present computer. Smartphones are created on the basis of operating systems, thereby possessing a huge number of all kinds of abilities.
Design
As for external data, these two devices may differ among themselves, and in some cases they look exactly the same. Usually, smartphones have much large dimensions due to their large screen on which you can watch full-fledged videos or play games. , as a rule, possess a small screen. However, there is a plus in this - to break the simple tube much harder than the smartphone, besides, the repair of such a device will be cheaper.
In addition, smartphones are often completely devoid of keyboard, you can only find several buttons on their housing. For example, if we talk about the iPhone, then on its case there are only three buttons, not counting the key of the silent mode. All actions with the apparatus are manufactured using a touch screen (pressing a finger). For a dialing of a number from a regular cellular, a keyboard is used. However, modern technologies make it possible to use many options with the help of voice, but this is again characteristic precisely for smartphones, and far from the lowest cost.
Operating system
The presence of the operating system is significantly expanding the list of features. First, you get multitasking, that is, you can open several programs at once and turn them, without fear for what they will be turned off. Secondly, this is the support of a huge number of all sorts of files. Here is an example. If you can download MP3 melody in the usual phone, then it is also its own, but already in other formats, for example, M4A. This means that you do not have to sit at the computer and wait until the song is converted into the required format. The same can be said about other music files, including FLAC or WAV (music lovers will understand what we are talking about). All of the above fully concerns video files.
Or here is another example. Tell me honestly, how much do you know phones having a built-in GPS module? Do not remember these? But among the smartphones of such majority. Here, however, have its own moments. You can use cards, not even possessing a GPS module, since all information will be used using the Internet. However, if the GPS module is installed, then the cards can be safely used without the Internet, although for this you will first need to download cards to your device.
Installed applications
If you open the Google Play shop for Android or the App Store for, you will simply be shocked by the presence of all kinds of applications for devices. There are so many of them that eyes just run up!
Here you will find the app for every taste. Suppose you like cooking - download yourself app with recipes. Or constantly use the subway - whatever you get lost, you can download the application of the same name. It is worth noting the fact that many programs are distributed free of charge, although for some of them will have to pay and quite a few.
As for the games, there is just a paradise for real gamers! Games - any, ranging from the simplest type of cards or dominoes and ending with the latest games, on schedule similar to computer.
Bluetooth
Almost any smartphone allows you to transfer files from one device to another, bypassing the computer. Make it allows the technology to be distributed a few years ago. With it, you can carry almost any files, and the transfer rate remains very high.
However, most mobile phones in recent years are also equipped with a "blue tooth", so that in this plan - draw.
TOTAL
Summarize? As you can see, smartphones are easily ahead of ordinary phones and have much more opportunities. However, they have consists where possible problems can be attributed during operation, as well as the greater value. Although it is not always the case. For example, SASMUNG younger models based on the Android operating system can be purchased for quite acceptable 4-6 thousand rubles. How do you think?
Recently, people have ceased to understand what the smartphone differs from the usual mobile phone. This is due to the fact that the smartphones have become the most massive product. It is they who are now sold best. And about ordinary cell phones, people began to forget. They began to believe that they would now simply exist that smartphones were replaced by mobile phones. But it's completely wrong!
You should begin with the fact that before any smartphones did not exist. Enough to remember 1987, when released a simple phone called Mobira Cityman 900.. It was a real brick - heavy and big. And nothing better in the market at that time did not exist. It's hard to believe, but the phones of those years did not even know how to transfer and accept SMS! Moreover, even the contact book, they did not get right away immediately!
In the 90s, only desktops and laptops could be called smartly. You could only dream about all sorts of smartphones and tablets, or observe their use in the Trek series - its creators literally predicted the future.
The breakthrough happened only in 2001, when was released Nokia 9210 Communicator. It was one of the first smartphones. Symbian OS 6.0 was installed on it as an operating system, the device could also please the full QWERTY-keyboard. The popularity of the model was such that in the future communicators began to call almost all portable devices equipped with smart functional and slot for the SIM card. In particular, the devices with Windows Mobile on board.
Operating system
As you have already begun to understand, a cell phone is different from a smartphone lack of a real operating system. Instead of her on mobile phones, the simplest firmware is used, the functionality of which is not seriously expanded. Such software supports only the installation of Java applications, whose functionality in many aspects is strongly limited. But there are exceptions. For example, Mobile Mobiles were popular in the mid-2000s. Siemens.To which with the help of a computer, one or other plugins developed by third-party people could be established. Such extensions provided new features to the phone owner, and sometimes even increased the amount of memory.
Modern and operate running the following operating systems:
There are some other mobile operating systems, but they are much less common. For example, the operating system could not conquer popularity Firefox OS.. Well, the usual phone is characterized by the fact that its manufacturer does not focus on the name of the firmware - only its version can be viewed on the device itself.
Design Device.
In fact, the differences lies not only in the software, but also the design of gadgets. Previously, all mobile phones have a mechanical keyboard - most often digital, but sometimes QWERTY. But now you can find mobile phone with a touch display - in particular, this refers to firmware database devices. Bada., the support of which was closed quite recently. That is, it can be said that the faces between mobile phones and smartphones in this regard blurred. But it is not so.
Go to the manufacturer's official website and read the technical specifications of the device. If this is a mobile phone, you will not tell you about the scope of RAM, or about the processor. The fact is that for a smartphone, these are very important, because the speed of its work depends on them. And simple mobile phones are consistently function even on the weakest components.
Other distinctions
Let's return to the software. As we have already mentioned, traditional cell phones if you support the installation of additional programs, then only in the form of strictly limited Java applications. And if your smartphone is in your hands, you can install more advanced programs and games written in a completely different code. For example, for A hundreds of applications have expanded .sys or .sysx. Well, android is rich in tens and even hundreds of thousands of very good programs with expansion .apk. - You can download them in the company online store Google Play..
Also among themselves, smartphones and phones differ in price. Even in the early 2010s, the first were much more expensive than the second. But gradually the price for components began to fall, in connection with which the smartphones began to cost cheaper. But the difference is still felt. While the cheapest push-button devices are the cheapest. Sensory mobile phones are already a little more expensive, in value they are close to on the basis Android. Because of this, they are becoming less and more popular and find them on the shelves of stores with each day everything is more complicated.
Summarizing
These are the most noticeable differences between smartphones and mobile phones. In connection with the decrease in the cost of production of components, the second gradually lose their popularity. It is possible that in the future only "Androids" and other smart devices will remain in the stores, since the meaning of the acquisition of a low-function cell phone is simply disappeared.
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Today, few people are asked about what the smartphone differs from the phone is different, and not so long ago he was more than relevant.
Why it all started
The concept of "smartphone" appeared for a long time. In 2000, he decided that in order to underline the advantages of its model, the R380S requires something more than the banal name "phone".The gadget was small, easy, but at the same time possessed the touch screen. Unfortunately, from a modern point of view, he had a significant drawback - closed.
This meant that it is impossible to establish applications on it in addition to the manufacturer. Subsequently, this disadvantage was corrected, and new models received the first operating system Symbian 6.0.
In those days, there were two more classes of gadgets: pocket personal computers (PDAs) who fulfilled the role of an electronic organizer, which already inferior to communicators submitted, in fact, the same, but with the possibility of making calls and access to the Internet.
With their "crossing" with a touchscreen phone and the concept of what we understand today under the smartphone appeared.
So what is the difference
The main differences of the smartphone from the phone can be considered the availability of the functionality of the pocket computer and the sensory. However, modern phones are also very "smart", although they are very inferior in opportunities to their senior fellows.
In addition, although they have access to the Internet, but it is limited to the GPRS / EDGE technology, in which the cost of the megabyte transmitted data is exhausted.
Smartphones are mandatory with 3G, and many - and 4G module making the mobile Internet are quite affordable and acceptable in speed.
It should also be borne in mind that for this type of devices is characteristic. one of the powerful operating systems:
- Google Android.
- Apple iOS.
- Windows Mobile.
As for the operating systems of push-button phones, to compare it at least with a netbook to anyone even in the head will not come.
If there are still both classes of mobile devices, it means that each of them has some of its advantages.
Pluses of smartphones:
- functionality of a pocket computer that allows you to use it for a wide variety of tasks;
- touchscreen display, providing convenient control of the gadget;
- implining Internet access;
- availability of additional features, such as GPS navigation, TV tuner, built-in audio system, etc.;
- huge amount of integrated memory compared to the phone allowing you to store a lot of diverse information;
- statusity of top models of smartphones.
- very low cost of the gadget;
- small dimensions compared to most of the models of smartphones;
- the familiar design and method of control for the elderly.
If a person does not need absolutely nothing, except for the possibility of making calls, then it makes no sense to buy even a long-haired ultra-budget smartphone.
Not to mention that such tempting proposals of "accurate copies of an iPhone for only 2000 rubles" usually ends with money discharged on the wind, and with push-button models, there are usually no such problems.
On the other hand, for most of us today, life is unthinkable without at least periodic Internet access. "World Wide Web" everything more persistently delays earthlings into its digital networks.
In this regard, push-button "tubes" are not able to offer the user practically nothing that dramatically narrows the audience of such devices.
It is impossible not to mention a varied entertainment content: in this respect, smartphones are again at an inaccessible height: books, movies, more than quality - except for the music of the "tube" at least somehow able to compete with touch colleagues, and even then exclusively Using headphones.
Thus, the smartphone today is the main means of communication used by the overwhelming majority of people, and the telephone - a superdeasy surrogate, intended only for calls, whose popularity of which falls from year to year.
Even for a long time and confidently using a mobile connection, not everyone can competently and clearly say what the differences of the phone from the smartphone and which mobile communication device is more convenient and more attractive to use.
Although the differences for 2017 are already minimal, we still observe simple, push-button phones without a built-in processor.
Let's try to figure out the difference between the mobile phone from the smartphone.
The fact that both of these devices can fit on the palm of the hand, the famous truth, but otherwise there is a minor difference.
1. Smartphone or Communicator
Already a lot of years knowing the communicator. This is a personal computer that can be freely placed in your pocket. It is supplemented by a mobile phone functionality.
The smartphone is such a mobile phone that is supplemented with a functionality characteristic of a pocket computer.
And although almost always in mobile phones there were additional features (calendar, calculator), models have become produced with more and more intellectual.
Then, in order to emphasize the increased functionality and computing power, and the term smartphone was introduced.
Over time, there is no significant difference between communicators and smartphones, since both terms are, in fact, mean the same thing.
Fig. №1. Evolution of mobile phone
2. The difference in the presence of the operating system
In contrast to many mobile phones, smartphones have a fairly developed operating system, which is open to software development by other developers.
Ordinary mobile phones for third-party developers the operating system is closed.
Those. In order for the mobile phone to be called a smartphone, it should work under the control of OS (operating system). In this case, third-party programs can be downloaded to it.
The operating system provides a smartphone with a large number of additional features. For example, establish programs such as Word, Adobe Reader, Exel and many others. And even the user himself may try to create a program for his device.
With the help of a smartphone, it is possible to view pictures and video files. Including pictures in MP2, AVI, 3GP format.
In everyday life, the bulk of people using the computer knows the MS Windows operating system well. Of course, they will be much easier for them to master the communicator whose work is running Windows Mobile.
Those who are easily able to master the management of their mobile device managed by any other OS, can choose Symbian OS. The Linux operating system is also found, but it is not an alternative to Symbian and Windows Mobile.
3. Differences in functionality
The functionality of smartphones in comparison with mobile phones (with us already familiar) is significantly improved after additional applications are installed in them. Often communicators (smartphones) are equipped with a touch screen.
They are managed using the stylus. The stylus is a small pointer having a non-fried and non-solid tip.
The screen acts as a keyboard role, but it is still desirable to protect against possible damage. For this purpose, a special protective film is pasted on it. There are also devices equipped with a keyboard.
They are comfortable to people having thin, deft fingers. The HTC TYTN communicator can be displayed as an example.
Recently, the face between smartphones and "ordinary" phones is still erased. New phones have long acquired the functionality, which once was inherent in smartphones (for example, e-mail). The exception is the cheapest models.
4. Differences in external characteristics
The purpose of this article is to distinguish the line that shares the world of smartphones and the world of mobile phones. First of all, they differ in their external characteristics.
Usually the sizes of the mobile phone are less than the size of the smartphone. But microelectronics is continuously developing, and it is increasingly affecting the blurring of these differences.
If you compare a mobile phone and a smartphone that were released at the same time, then the screen size has always been greater. These means of communication differ in the number of their functions.
Compared to the mobile phone, the smartphone has always been an order of magnitude more. After all, the tasks facing the smartphone and a mobile phone differ in the root.
Mobile phone is a classic means of a portable type. It provides a call from the subscriber and the subscriber. With a mobile phone, it is possible to send SMS messages and MMS messages. It can provide Internet access and is equipped with games.
Smartphone - smart phone. This is how the name is translated from English. "High IQ" to such a mobile device provides the role of a transitional mobile communication between a mobile phone and computer.
The similarity with the PC provides the ability to install the operating system, which significantly increases the functionality. You are more convenient to buy a smartphone with a combination of high functionality and attractive cost.
For some people, wide functions of smartphones may seem too complex. But even in a number of smartphones there are representatives of a series with a simplified set of functions.
5. Differences when installing programs
Buy a mobile phone is convenient to those who prefer to limit the injection of pictures, ringtones, games, music. On this mobile phone capabilities are limited.
Buy smartphone worthwhile who prefers:
- use a specialized file manager to manage files;
- apply satellite navigation using the GPS module;
- use organizer and archiver;
- read and use text documents and materials in PDB-ISILO, PRC in everyday work;
- use online translators from several languages;
- provide high-quality video and photography.
6. Features with simultaneous use of programs
Mobile phone All actions perform consistently one by one. The smartphone is ready to provide high-quality simultaneous execution of several programs at once.
It is a smartphone that is used by those who try to listen to music at the same time, watch the film, talk on the phone, read on the calculator.
Mobile phone sends only SMS and MMS. Smartphone guarantees easy file sharing.
7. Differences in operation
It is here that lies, probably, the only difference capable of making the purchase of a mobile phone a more successful solution than the solution to buy a smartphone.
Modern mobile phones are characterized by a high degree of reliability. They can be dropped.
After falling into the water, most mobile phones just dry well. This can be done independently or contact the workshop. Mobile phones will be ready to operate again.
Mobile phone repair is available at cost.
Smartphones "gentle" in use. Even a small fall can lead to a critical breakdown.
If even the minimum amount of water falls on the smartphone, its contacts are oxidized, and it is completely out of order.
The repair of the smartphone is time consuming and costs a significant amount.
Comparative Cell Phone and Smartphone Opportunities Table
| Cellular telephone | Smartphone | |
| Calls | + | + |
| Games | only simple games | games depending on the power of the processor |
| Functions | basic functions (calendar, alarm clock, organizer) | infinite features. The set of features depends on the operating system - Android, Windows Mobile, iOS ... |
| Camera | photo and video - limited editing features. Usually simple optics | photos and video - advanced features. Improved optics. Editing immediately on the phone. Sending online |
| View and edit images | available, but without advanced features (copying, editing ...) | you can view, edit and immediately send on the Internet |
| CPU | no | there is |
| Applications | basic | any. Limited only by the version of the operating system and the power of the smartphone |
| Convenience | usually cell phones are more compact than smartphones. Due to the smaller diagonal of the screen, they are easily placed in the hand. But small buttons may seem not comfortable for people with large fingers. | at the expense of a large screen diagonal, usually occupy a lot of space and are not always placed in the palm of your hand. But due to the touch screen, it is more convenient to manage data than on the phone with the buttons |
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The life of a modern person is probably no longer possible without a mobile phone. Every day, our requirements for the functions of the phone are growing, but the manufacturers do not lag behind and offer the widest choice of various design and functionality of the devices. Recently, smartphones have received widespread. However, many consumers, and even workers of cellular stores, cannot explain the difference between classical telephone and new-fashioned smartphones. Often we, without understanding that, we prefer the smartphone, although modern phones are tightened by their functions to these "intellectual" devices. Perhaps in the near future, all phones will be smartphones.
Mobile phone - This is a portable means of communication. Allows you to make and receive calls and SMS, MMS messages, has access to the Internet, it provides the ability to play games.
« Smartphone"Translated from English as a" smart phone ". And he is actually such. The smartphone can be called the transition step between the phone and computer. The operating system is installed on the smartphone, as well as on the computer, which makes it possible to use a large number of programs.
Often, an externally, the smartphone does not differ at all from the ordinary phone: the same keyboard, the same screen, the same dimensions. However, there are a number of smartphones that are a kind of hybrid of the phone with PDAs, and more similar to the latter. They do not have a keyboard, and control occurs with the stylus or finger through the touchscreen display, the size of which significantly exceeds the screen of a normal mobile phone.
Support formats files
On the usual mobile phone, there are usually no additional features, in addition to viewing pictures and Java games. On the smartphone, in addition to the same Java games, you can install SIS games, various programs (Word, Excel, Adobe Reader and Others), all sorts of applications. You can also view pictures without loss of quality and video in 3GP, MP4, AVI formats.
The only inconvenience when watching movies is a small screen. Therefore, if you are planning to watch videos in the future on your device, it is better to immediately take care of the size of the screen when choosing a smartphone in the store.
Installed programs
On the usual phone you can download games, ringtones, music, pictures. Here, perhaps, all.
The ability of the smartphone is much larger:
- for ease of file management - File Manager
- to read and edit text documents and PRC formats, PDB - Isilo
- GPS module for using satellite navigation
- organizer
- archiver
- ON-LINE translator with a dictionary for eight languages \u200b\u200band much more.
So familiar photo- or video shooting on a mobile phone is also a smartphone feature.
Simultaneous use of programs
All features available on the phone are performed sequentially, one after another.
The indisputable advantage of the smartphone is the ability to use multiple programs at the same time: for example, listen to music and produce some calculations on the calculator.
File transfer
It happens that it is necessary to urgently transfer some kind of file to someone, but there is no access to the computer. In this case, you can use the smartphone. With this device, you can send text documents, programs, games.
An ordinary mobile phone allows you to send only SMS and MMS.
Exploitation
Ordinary mobile phones are quite reliable and strong. They are dropped on the floor, thrown into the water, but after they dry and go through, they still continue to work. And in the case of serious damage to the screen or case, they are simply replaced.
Smartphones are not like that. They are afraid of the slightest hit. If you get into the water, the nodes of the chips are oxidized, and the phone stops working. Repair of such devices is very complex and expensive.
Conclusions Website:
- The cell phone performs only one function - providing a cellular connection. Smartphone is a multifunctional.
- The smartphone has a processor that allows you to install the operating system.
- Smartphone, unlike a regular phone, allows you to work in multitasking mode.
- Smartphone can be used as a video player to view AVI and MP4 video films.
- The phone has greater reliability and is not afraid of mechanical damage. Smartphone is more fragile and can fail even from a weak fall.
