I think this is a good definition of the CURRENT meaning of the term
smartphone.
But it would not have been a good definition 5 years ago, nor will it
be in 5 years time.
But I bet we will still then be talking about "smartphones".
The term is static, but the reference changes.
Nick
On 9 Dec 2005, at 15:48, William Volk wrote:
> A Smart Phone has a reasonable operating system feature set and
> allows for
> 'native' applications (compiled to assembly) to be installed onto the
> handset that can effect all operations of the handset.
Received on Fri Dec 9 10:00:18 2005