What is the difference between a Smartphone and a PDA phone?

[roshan45]

Hi,

What is the difference between a Smartphone and a PDA phone? I would like to find out what is suitable for the business life of devices is best and what advantages and disadvantages of the devices each have ???

[Astalavista]

A smartphone is a normal mobile phone, but the smartphone has more features than the ordinary mobile phone.
Thus, a smartphone example:

• Mobile Internet
• Music player (MP3)
• Movie Player
• Navigation

The smartphone is also often used as a business phone. It is because of Microsoft Office available. Some smart phones have an enhanced keyboard hanging there. This makes it easier to get an E-Mailtje typing. The smart phones with a touchscreen usually have a qwerty keyboard, which you tap the screen.

PDA stands for Personal Digital Assistant and is primarily a business phone. Another word for a PDA: Handheld or Palmtop. A PDA has the following features:

• Mobile Internet
• Fax
• Calculator
• Navigation

A PDA is mainly aimed at business functions. Often a PDA equipped with a qwerty keyboard.

[Kylebrn]

Smartphones is the older concept of mobile phones. Smartphones can, of course, make calls with it, that's why smart phones and communicators can call cell phones. Perhaps it can be called and PDAs (Pocket PC), but it is only in the case when it has any "gadgets". The difference between mobile phones and smartphones, there is at the level of software. It consists in the fact that the mobile phone has the firmware, and a smartphone - the operating system. The two most common operating systems for smartphones - Symbian and a Windows Mobile Smartphone. The operating system, or just the OS, allows you to install on a smartphone different programs designed for smartphones (it can be audio, applications, antivirus, browsers, and, in general, any program that you liked more than the standard).

[Kirmiac]

SmartPhone device that combines features of GSM and PDA, but focusing on telephony. These are usually the functionality Agenda, E-Mail, Address Book. Even surfing the Internet can now get along without, although it remains a small screen, and then only the websites that are specially designed for real legible. PDA (Pocket PC) is also only a small step to extend this GSM / GPRS capabilities, there is just never really done much more in terms of further miniaturization of the equipment.

[SreeKanth]

The smartphone, whether Symbian or Windows Mobile, are smaller than PDAs but are less potent, also have no touch screen (very useful for putting data). For example, a smartphone can not see excel files, each with a PDA. After the election is about the minimum you need to process. If this capability gives you a smartphone, it is preferable to a PDA, since it is smaller.

[Zoe]

A price equal Windows Mobile gives you many more possibilities, current and future Symbian too, especially the connectivity and compatibility with the PC. Another thing is that, in general, Windows Mobile devices are more expensive. Both can open office files, only edit is more complicated in the smartphone as aa pda phones that are faster than smartphones not in all cases because sometimes uses the same processor and same amount of RAM but the software on a pda or pocket pc phone edition is more advanced.