Smartphone Style
The last word in geek chic
What is the Smartphone style? Smartphones are the high end cell phones in terms of features. They're more like a Pocket PC with communications capabilities. They're not the practical option - unless you are totally dedicated to all that functionality (or just rich). To buy the expensive device and pay all the fees required to make all those communications features work is quite costly. Sending/receiving voice mail, instant messages, browsing the web, downloading and playing back video, as well as some of the newer features that can produce a wireless hot spot from a mobile network will all rack up quite a cell phone bill.
Design-wise these are the largest cell phones. Some designs like Samsung's SGH-i300 makes an effort to hide the keypad by making it slide out from under the handset. Others like the Blackberry's classic design make no effort to hide it, leaving a full qwerty keypad just under the screen.
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- Flip Phone
- Candybar Phone
- Parents Guide to Cell Phones for the parent just trying to make sense of it all.
Smartphones offer the kinds of features that make traveling business people smile. A phone with a PDA (Personal Data Assistant) device attached makes it the modern accessory for today's road warrior. Smartphone's usually run a PDA operating system like the famous Palm OS, Windows Mobile or Symbian. Using these advanced devices you'll do a lot more than communicate; it's like having a personal office on the go. You can create and edit documents and organize your calendar, run personal task lists and workflow charts.
The style effect of the Smartphones is its geek-sheik brand of cool. Some people even see toting a Blackberry or Treo clipped to their belt as a sort of status that says:
"Hey look at me! I'm tethered to a responsibility. Someone or some thing might call me at any time and make me do stuff."
The style in Smartphone is admittedly shall we say.highly specialized. They're about as fashionable today as a Texas Instruments pocket calculator hanging out of your shirt pocket was in 1978. Only someone who knows what a Treo is will appreciate an oversized cell phone with a stumpy antenna poking out of it. Everybody else will think you're just happy to see them.