How Smart is Your Mobile Phone

Smartphones are cell phones, or moblie phones as they say in the UK, with built in functionality like e-mail, web browsing and so much more.

The first smartphone which was called Simon was built by IBM back in 1992, Nokia entered the market in 1996, but the real game changer was the iPhone by Apple released in June of 2007. It set a whole new standard that every phone manufacturer is now seeking to surpass.

Believe it or not, today these smartphones have more memory and are more powerful than the desktop computer you used just a few years ago. There are thousands and thousands of software applications that run on these phones that do practically everything. Some mobile entrepreneurs are literally running their entire business on their phones, larger firms have e-mail, calendars, sales order processing, service management and a host of other activities on their employees' smartphone resulting in a boom to productivity.

In the last few months exciting new phones using the "Android" Operating system by Google have been released.  Microsoft's efforts in this market which to date have been weak promises to take a turn for the better with the release of Windows Mobile Version 7.

Blackberry continues to be a leader in the field of smartphones and continues to innovate.

So how smart is your phone? Well if you don't have a iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile or "Droid" phone then not very. Sorry. We suggest that you get down to your favorite cell phone store today and check out the latest offerings. Once you see what you can do with these amazing devices you will wonder what you did without one.

Here is a good video on the top 10 smartphones for 2010, so far. There are many more to come.