A smartphone is a mobile phone offering advanced capabilities, often with PC-like functionality (PC-mobile handset convergence). There is no industry standard definition of a smartphone. For some, a smartphone is a phone that runs complete operating system software providing a standardized interface and platform for application developers. For others, a smartphone is simply a phone with advanced features like e-mail, Internet and e-book reader capabilities, and/or a built-in full keyboard or external USB keyboard and VGA connector. In other words, it is a miniature computer that has phone capability.
iPod:
An iPod is a portable device for storing and playing audio files encoded by MP3 or AAC compression algorithms. Designed by Apple Computer, iPods have distinctive styling and can hold anywhere from a few hundred to ten thousand songs.
Released in 2001, the original iPod came with a body of white Lucite and chrome. Two years later Apple released the iPod Mini, approximately one-third the size of the original iPod and encased in a variety of shiny metallic colors. The smallest member of the iPod family, the Shuffle, reduced the size down to that of a package of stick gum and looked very much like the original. All iPods came with distinctive white headphones.
Apple's iPod continued the company's tradition of creating technology that is easy to use. When connected to a personal computer (PC), Windows or Macintosh, the iPod communicates with a piece of Apple software called iTunes. The iPod and iTunes work together to synchronize the songs available on the iPod to those available on the PC. This happens automatically, without any intervention being required from the user. This ease of use was a primary reason for the iPod's domination of the portable MP3 player market.
iPOD Series:
1.iPod classic - hard drive-base, large storage
With 120GB of storage, iPod classic is the take-everything-everywhere iPod, with space for up to 30000 songs, 150 hours of video, or 25000 photos.
2.iPod Touch - touchscreen iPod
It's the funnest iPod ever. iPod touch puts music, movies, websites, and now games and applications in the palm of your hand.
3.iPod Nano - video-capable iPod
iPod nano rocks in nine amazing colors and a new design. The accelerometer is built in, so turn it sideways to view music in Cover Flow and watch movies.
4.iPod Shuffle - compact iPod
iPod shuffle is the world's smallest music player, and the first one that talks to you. VoiceOver tells you song title, artist and playlist names.
iPad
The iPad is a tablet computer developed by Apple Inc.It features multi-touch interaction with print, video, photo, and audio multimedia, internet browsing, and runs most iPhone OS apps. The device has an LED-backlit 9.7-inch (25 cm color LCD display and uses a virtual keyboard for text input. Apple's development of a tablet computer began with the Newton MessagePad 100, which was introduced in 1993. The effort led to the creation of the ARM6 processor core with Acorn Computers.
The iPad comes with these applications: Safari, Mail, Photos, Video, YouTube, iPod, iTunes, App Store, Maps, Notes, Calendar, Contacts, and Spotlight. It also comes with the iBooks application, which displays books and other ePub-format content downloaded from the iBookstore.
iPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia enabled smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPhone functions as a camera phone (also including text messaging and visual voicemail), a portable media player (equivalent to a video iPod), and an Internet client (with e-mail, web browsing, and Wi-Fi connectivity) — using the phone's multi-touch screen to provide a virtual keyboard in lieu of a physical keyboard.
The first-generation phone was quad-band GSM with EDGE(Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution), the second generation phone added UMTS(Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, it is one of the third-generation (3G) mobile telecommunications technologies )with 3.6 Mbps HSDPA; the third generation adds support for 7.2 Mbps HSDPA(High-Speed Downlink Packet Access ) downloading but remains limited to 384 Kbps uploading as Apple had not implemented the HSPA protocol.
Apple announced the iPhone on January 9, 2007, after months of rumors and speculation.The (retroactively labelled) original iPhone was introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007 before being marketed in Europe. Time magazine named it the Invention of the Year in 2007. Released July 11, 2008, the iPhone 3G supports faster 3G data speeds and assisted GPS. On March 17, 2009, Apple announced version 3.0 of the iPhone OS for the iPhone (and iPod Touch), released on June 17, 2009. The iPhone 3GS was announced on June 8, 2009, and has improved performance, a camera with higher resolution and video capability, and voice control. It was released in the U.S., Canada and six European countries on June 19, 2009, in Australia and Japan on June 26, and saw international release in July and August, 2009.
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