Cell Phone Stuff

True multifunction devices, mobile phones continue to adorn themselves with new features. The problem is that all these mobile eventually look like! Therefore, how to choose?

If one tends to go to mobile phones less and less differentiated, it is certainly on the side of providing services that the contrast will be in years to come. We now speak of an ecosystem around the mobile phone: from a common base, the user will be able to customize their phone to fit their needs and interests by adding a few applications (games, media, sports, news , music …). Thanks to broadband and using a platform download, customize your phone becomes a breeze.

Taken by the success of Apple’s AppStore, launched just last year, most major brands of mobile phone owners, or an operating system (like Microsoft) would offer a worthy of the name this year . RIM (Blackberry), Nokia, Samsung, Microsoft or even Google are using to good ideas from developers around the world to supply mini-software memory of our daily companions.

While it is too early to compare the availability of these platforms in terms of ergonomics, practicality and content – some are not yet complete – the brands are well aware that at some future time, user choice will be both the product and the content available to enrich it. Finally, look at where some bids go up, “it was time to look ahead,” looks like another.

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Until when do we call “mobile phone”? Certainly, it can still reach its contacts with the voice but, like a chameleon, he knows how to turn camera, music player, GPS or even video player. The phone brings together a compendium of features ever more leisure oriented. If the analyst firm foresees a sharp drop in sales of mobile phones called “traditional” this year, multifunction phones, more or less appropriately called “smartphones”, should continue to have the wind in its sails. Reason behind this success? Efforts being made to “user experience” is always more streamlined and pleasant as phones become more sophisticated, as they integrate technology more sophisticated, the user has less to deal with complexity! Thus, interfaces are modernizing and becoming playful.

The history of proposed solutions that wanted to be beautiful to attract the general public We are currently witnessing the convergence of two worlds: the professional and personal. While the phone “pro” multitasking trying to afford a facelift in improvising general public (a photo sensor integration …), the public phone, borrow a few good things to his cousin ‘pro’ (synchronization of contacts, push mail mode …), is often more conclusive.

Today, the world wants to market its “smartphone” general public. Specialist phone (Nokia, Sony-Ericsson) to mark multisector (LG, Samsung …), through the computer manufacturer (Apple, Toshiba …), everyone wants to propose its solution. Finally, everyone wants to get closer to the ideal: an attractive phone, if possible, touch, offering smooth navigation, and a good self-correct features, if not as good as those offered by some autonomous devices (GPS, audio player, camera). Only here: if in the end all brands have rushed into the same tunnel, all the motives which finally see the day offer the same ease of use. Better, less technical, capabilities vary widely in practice.