Smartphone Support
Outsource Solutions Group, located in Aurora IL, can help provide you with the support necessary to integrate Smartphone technology into your organization.
A smartphone is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a basic feature phone. While some feature phones are able to run simple applications based on generic platforms, a smartphone allows the user to install and run much more advanced applications based on a specific platform. Smartphones run complete operating system software providing a platform for application developers. Growth in demand for advanced mobile devices boasting powerful processors, abundant memory, larger screens and open operating systems has outpaced the rest of the mobile phone market for several years. According to a study by ComScore, in 2010, over 45.5 million people in the United States owned smartphones and it is the fastest growing segment of the mobile phone market, which comprised of 234 million subscribers in the United States. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
According to comScore data as of May of 2010, the top 5 Smartphone vendors in terms of subscribers are:
- Rim (Blackberry)
- Apple (iPhone)
- Microsoft
- Google (Android)
- Palm (recently purchased by HP)
In the 3 month period ending 5/2010 only the Google Android increase its % of market share, increasing from 9% to 13%. These numbers do not include the release of the new iPhone 4 device which was released in June of 2010.
Key Smartphone Features
- Operating Systems, allows device to run applications
- Internet Access 3g/4g
- Software, "apps"
- Ability to read e-mail
- Sync capabilities