What is a Global Smartphone?
A global smartphone is a personal communication device with worldwide capabilities. The smart phone itself is a handheld communicator with models offered by several different telecommunications companies. The global smartphone contains abilities far beyond the original telephone concept of making and receiving voice transmissions. The word “global” in the phrase “global smartphone” means that the instrument can be used nearly any place in the world. In their advertising, telecommunications companies often site the number of countries in which their global smartphones can send and receive data. The number of countries range from 150 to 200. IBM® first developed smartphones in 1992. However, that first smartphone, while far more complex than a regular cell phone, still had few advanced qualities compared to today’s global smartphones. RIM® released the BlackBerry® smartphone in 2001, and it could be said that RIM® launched modern global smartphone technology. Among other attributes, the
