Who cares for looks of phone??!
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Let me give you an example.
A certain someone has suddenly gotten a liking to su-do-ku & is crazed about it. And the Times-of-India newspaper offers a new puzzle every morning but its not frequent enough. So what do I do? I simply download a SymbianOS installer (*.sis) & install the game on my
smartphone & give it to her to play.
TA-DA!!!!
She's happy!
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Similarly, I want to play *.WMV files (
windows media video) on my phone, because its a small home-made movie made with Windows Movie Maker & I need to show it to my grandmother whom I'm visiting (its a village with no electricity, so no PC or
laptops there). I simply install the codec on my phone & I start watching it!
And I sometimes need to look up Excel/Word/HTML files on the way to a client's office. No sweat, smartphone hai na.
I'm lying with my back on the floor & watching a DVD on the PC, and too lazy to get up & increase volume on speakers when those damned english idiots start whispering. I can simply control the volume (& winamp playlist) from my phone through bluetooth!
And sometimes, family members get mad about emails reading & seeing digital photos of their trips. I can give them the PC & get up & go to the kitchen/bedroom/wherever (radius of 50 metres). And for the next 3 hours, as they remember fond memories, I dont forego my emails - I can browse the Internet thru my phone itself (thru Bluetooth, my phone connects to my PC, which is in turn connected to the net on an unlimited scheme).
I can browse through 200 high-res photos of loved ones, whenever I feel like. Or listen to a slow, inspiring MP3 song to lift my mood. Best part is I can have my phone as a constant companion - write notes, to-do lists, record my thoughts as voice, & then look into those later when needed.
And for more functionality, simply install a new application! As simple as that!
The 6060 will NEVER be able to do all the above, coz its not an Operating-System phone, it simply runs on fixed firmware with no extensibility. The 6060 (and most other phones on the market right now) could possibly be labelled dumb phones. The 3230 is a smartphone!
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I do recognise that some people do prefer a simple phone for their needs, but then I look at that as an indication of the level of time they are willing to invest in their phones. Phones that run on an OS, are definitely more complex & demand maintenance (clean out files you dont want, etc). To me, the time & effort that my smartphone saves me, is well worth the few minutes I take care of it every week. The OS-phone is an intelligent computing device that lives out the true promise of palmtop computers.
And this article is a whole load of more points in favour of smartphones -
https://broadband.forum/1740/laptop-murd...by-smartphones/
NOW do you understand the true meaning & functionality that a smartphone gives?
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