SMARTPHONESSmartphone is a portable device and is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity.Smart phones allows the user to install and run more advanced applications.

The benefits of using smart phones

Smart phones brought easier ways of communication.

They keep you organized.Always available.Greater functionality.Access computer data.Faster in communicationCommunicate world wideAssist students in different ways.

The use of smart phonesIn the work placeSmart phones makes communication less

difficult.Employers can send mass messages or new

company policy to employees with mass emails.

Through internet connection, can communicate using emails, faxing important information to a company partner.

A company can reach potential customers by having a website and advertise online.

The use of smart phonesEducationSmart phones help students to progress in

their studies.They have access to internet, students can

get information and complete assignments, projects and write notes during lecture times.

In the north CAROLINA school students are issued smart phones to solve algebra problems in classroom and at home.

There are class blog, moodle were students can do homework's using their smart phones.

Lectures can also use videos and photos from online sources to share with the students using smart phones.

Mind map showing how smart phones functions socially and educationally.

The different types of smart phones

Statistical Information Smart phone market shares and operating

systems. Gartner(feb2011)

Smart phone market share statisticsSmart phone sales nearly doubled (89 percent)

from the same quarter last year, 101.2 million phones sold in 2010.

The US is the biggest single country for smart phones sales.

Fastest smart phone growth is in Europe, middle east and Africa. Sales up 90 percent from the same quarter last year.

Nokia is still the number one seller of smart phones hardware(28 percent of world wide sales).

ConclusionSmart phones are part of our everyday life, it

seems whatever we do revolves them. They are helpful we do work or any social things faster and we don’t have to go around carrying computers they are portable can carry them where ever you go.

Smart phones brings productivity in the work place, better communication, social engagement and they also assist in education.

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