The world today can virtually be hand held and life can be controlled from the very palm of your hand and the smartphones make this process even easier. In the small machine called the smartphone one can store personal data , information, management information and it also serves the role of a mobile phone. These multi purpose, palm sized smartphones are like 'little magic boxes' with the capability of performing tasks which earlier was done by huge sized computers. This often includes the adding of phone functions to an already capable PDAs or putting the smart function like PDAs function into a mobile phone.
The smartphone , in short,is a personal hand sized computer with almost all the functions of a hi-tech computer. These smartphones also, usually have cameras,both video and still, capability of accessing mails and personal organizers. These application and feature in a smartphone can be developed and installed by both the the manufacturer of the device, by the operator or by any other third-party
software developer. The most famous smartphone manufacturing Companies include:
• Nokia
• Palm Inc
• Research in Motion Limited (RIM)
• Samsung Electronics
• Sony Ericsson
• Gigabyte
• Group Sense PDA
• Hewlett-Packard
• High Tech Computer (HTC)
