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Everything about Smartphone

Handheld mobile device

A smartphone is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities. It typically has a touchscreen interface, allowing users to access a wide range of applications and services, such as web browsing, email, and social media, as well as multimedia playback and streaming. Smartphones have built-in cameras, GPS navigation, and support for various communication methods, including voice calls, text messaging, and internet-based messaging apps. Smartphones are distinguished from older-design feature phones by their more advanced hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, access to the internet, business applications, mobile payments, and multimedia functionality, including music, video, gaming, radio, and television. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: SmartphoneA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: OpenCap: Human movement dynamics from smartphone videosInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: iPhone for dummiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: The Smartphone Addiction Scale: Development and Validation of a Short Version for AdolescentsCited 1,654 times
  5. Go sideways: Samsung Gear 2A closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Samsung Galaxy S9A closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a feature phone.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
  2. Hardware
  3. Software
  4. List of current smartphone brands
  5. Sales
  6. Use
  7. Criticism and issues
  8. Health effects
  9. Restrictions and bans
  10. Replacement of dedicated digital cameras
  11. Lifespan

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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