This was the simple question posed on the Pocket PC magazine wireless forum (www.pocketpcmag.com/forum) back at the end of May, but like a lot of simple questions, it has a complex answer.
The term "smartphone" generically refers to a cellular or mobile phone that provides advanced data functions in addition to the voice features of a regular mobile phone. Of course, even the least expensive mobile phone includes some amount of memory for storing a phone directory, and most can send and receive text messages, but a smartphone has many more features. To be considered a smartphone, a mobile phone should have many of the following features:
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