(keitai-l) Summarizing the "smart phone" discussion

Now I will take a position:

Following this "smart phone" discussion for several years in
newspaper etc, I postulate:

The term "smart phone" is a pretty useless marketing term.
Technical experts have difficult to find a meaningful
definition of this term.

I particular, there is a tendency to call phones smartphones which
run on OS's which are heavily marketed such as MS or Symbian,
while they exclude phones which have similar functions but where
the OS is less heavily marketed.

Gerhard

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Gerhard Fasol, PhD                          Eurotechnology Japan K. K.
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