Comments on: What’s in a name? Thoughts on the smartphone title http://www.iphonebuzz.com/whats-in-a-name-thoughts-on-the-smartphone-title-06537.php tracking the iPhone revolution Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anthony Caruana http://www.iphonebuzz.com/whats-in-a-name-thoughts-on-the-smartphone-title-06537.php/comment-page-1#comment-921 Anthony Caruana Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:40:00 +0000 http://www.myiphone.com/whats-in-a-name-thoughts-on-the-smartphone-title-06537.php#comment-921 Microsoft's been using the Smartphone name (with a capital "S") for sometime as well. It is used to designate the phone platform that uses Windows Mobile on a traditional phone form factor without a touchscreen. FWIW - my view is that a smartphone is a device that combines telephony and local data management beyond a basic phone book and diary/calendar. To be honest, trying to apply these sorts of categories is becoming a little useless as the crossover between form factors and functions means that there's more products in the grey areas between categories than in the actual categories. Cheers Anthony Microsoft’s been using the Smartphone name (with a capital “S”) for sometime as well. It is used to designate the phone platform that uses Windows Mobile on a traditional phone form factor without a touchscreen.

FWIW – my view is that a smartphone is a device that combines telephony and local data management beyond a basic phone book and diary/calendar.

To be honest, trying to apply these sorts of categories is becoming a little useless as the crossover between form factors and functions means that there’s more products in the grey areas between categories than in the actual categories.

Cheers
Anthony

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