Smartphones

Smartphones Blog, a way to learn how Travelers can use Smartphones for E-mail, Business or to update their Facebook.com.

WARNING: Do not use a Smartphone outside your own country unless you are 100 percent aware of the charges. There are people returning home to 1000-10,000 Dollar bills to pay.

Presently, the best way to use a Smartphone as a world traveler is buy the service in the country you enter.

USA Background Note for all the countries for Smarphones:
http://m.state.gov/mc36882.htm

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Read the Mobile Office area of HoboTraveler.com

A smartphone is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary basic 'feature phone'. Smartphones and feature phones may be thought of as handheld computers integrated within a mobile telephone, but while most feature phones are able to run applications based on platforms such as Java ME or BREW, a smartphone allows the user to install and run more advanced applications based on a specific platform. Smartphones run complete operating system software providing a platform for application developers. Smartphone hardware and software data is compiled at The Smartphone Genome Project.

Growth in demand for advanced mobile devices boasting powerful processors, abundant memory, larger screens and open operating systems has outpaced the rest of the mobile phone market for several years. According to a study by ComScore, in 2010 over 45.5 million people in the United States owned smartphones and it is the fastest growing segment of the mobile phone market, which comprised 234 million subscribers in the United States.

Operating systems that can be found on smartphones include Symbian OS (including S60 series), iOS, Palm WebOS, BlackBerry OS, Samsung bada phones running Linux, Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless, Windows Mobile, Android and Maemo. WebOS, Android and Maemo are built on top of Linux, and the iOS is derived from the BSD and NeXTSTEP operating systems, which all are related to Unix.