Smartphones Quiz

The touchscreen-centric ____ phone became T-Mobile G1 and it was directly due to the arrival of the iPhone.

"Dream"

a portmanteau of the words phone and tablet, describes smartphones with larger screens.

"Phablet"

also used by some companies to market phones with unusually large screens and other expensive features.

"Superphone"

a term used to identify a smartphone which has top of the line materials.

"Ultra Premium"

1995 vs. 2000

- In the year 1995, there were 40 million people online. - In the year 2000, there were 400 million people online.

Android updates

-1.6 "Donut" -2.0-2.1 "Éclair" in October 2009 -2.2 "Froyo" (May 2010)- mobile hotspots, redo of home screen 2.3 "Gingerbread" in Dec. 2010 -3.0 Honeycomb- made just for the tablet -4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich"- biggest feature; recent apps and multitasking -4.1 "Jelly Bean" - headline feature was Google Now -4.4 "KitKat"- more visually pleasing electronic elements -Adriod Lolipop- moves android software to everywhere in your life

iPhone

The iPhone was announced on January 9, 2007 and shipped on June 29, 2007, launching the modern smartphone era. Competitors dismissed it as an expensive bauble (Steve Ballmer at Microsoft) or, even, as something of a hoax (BlackBerry).

Smartphone industry vs. PCs

The smartphone industry dwarfs PCs. 4 billion people are buying every 2 years instead of 1.6 billion buying every 5 years.

The first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, was released....

a bit over a year later on October 22, 2008.

CyanogenMod

a discontinued popular open-source operating system for mobile devices, based on the Android mobile platform. It was developed as free and open-source software based on the official releases of Android by Google.

Android was created by Andy Rubin who...

a) created Danger, the company behind the Sidekick and b) was an Apple engineer for a number of years. It was a standalone company until Google acquired it in 2005.

The term "smart phone"

appeared in print as early as 1995, describing AT&T's PhoneWriter Communicator.

Over time, Android devices grew to....

dominate the smartphone market in terms of market share, but iOS devices, despite their much lower shipment volume, continue to dominate in profit share.

The major pre-iPhone smartphones in the US were...

the Sidekick, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile

Apple is overtaking...

the entire PC industry.

Bugdroid

the public face of the Android brand

iOS 7

the system currently powering Apple's mobile devices, offers an easy-to-understand smartphone operating system to new users, a powerful platform for app developers, and a relatively un-fragmented experience across multiple devices.

Smartphones can access the Internet...

through a cellular network or Wi-Fi and can run a variety of third-party software components. They typically have a color display with a graphic user interface that covers the front surface. The display is almost always a touchscreen that enables the user to use a virtual keyboard to type words, numbers, and other characters, and press onscreen icons to activate "app" features.

Simon

was a prototype developed by Frank Canova[6] in 1992 while at IBM and demonstrated that year at the COMDEX computer industry trade show. It included PDA features and other visionary mobile applications such as maps, stock reports and news. A refined version was marketed to consumers in 1994 by BellSouth under the name Simon Personal Communicator. The Simon was the first commercially available device that could be properly referred to as a "smartphone", although that term was not coined until a year later. In addition to placing and receiving cellular calls, Simon could send and receive faxes and emails. Simon included an address book, calendar, appointment scheduler, calculator, world time clock and notepad, utilizing its touch screen display.

The Motorola Droid

was the first Android phone that was successful at a mass-market level.

Paraskevakos

was the first to introduce the concept of telephony into computers. In 1971, while he was working with Boeing in Huntsville, Alabama, Paraskevakos demonstrated a transmitter and receiver that provided additional ways to communicate with remote equipment, however it still did not yet have general purpose functionality. They were installed at Peoples' Telephone Company in Leesburg, Alabama and were demonstrated to several telephone companies. The original and historic working models are still in the possession of Paraskevakos.

PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants)

were important forerunners of modern smartphones

Google Now

Google Now is an intelligent personal assistant developed by Google. It is available in the Google app for Android and iOS; it uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of web-services.

In October 2008, the first phone to use Android called the ___ Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1) was released. It also had a large touchscreen, but still retained a slide-out physical keyboard.

HTC

Handspring's Treo 180

Handspring's Treo 180 (2002), the first smartphone to combine the Palm OS and a GSM PDA with telephony, SMS messaging and Internet access fully integrated into the OS.

this update was released in 06/2009 and the features include: cut, copy, paste; voice control; MMS; spotlight search; push notifications; USB and Bluetooth tethering; landscape keyboard; Find my iPhone

IOS 3.0

Apple also announced its own cloud-based service, which replaced .Mac and provided integrated email, calendar, and contact sync. ____ never grabbed the public imagination, however, in part because it was expensive at $99 a year and in part because it was quite unreliable in the early days.

MobileMe

- From 2000 to 2014, it jumps up to 2 and a half billion people online in ____ years.

15

In the year ____, the Japanese firm NTT DoCoMo released the first smartphones to achieve mass adoption within a country. Smartphones became widespread in the late 2000s, following the release of the iPhone. In the third quarter of 2012, one billion smartphones were in use worldwide.

1999

Smartphones (though not in their current, full-fledged computer, touchscreen form) found their first wide-spread adoption Japan in ____, accumulating 40 million smartphone subscribers by 2001.

1999

In ___, Apple introduced the App Store, a centralized storefront for purchasing new software for iPhone devices.

2008

By the mid ___, almost all smartphones were touchscreen-only.

2010s

During the iPhone launch weekend: Apple sold ___more CPU transistors than were in all the PCs on Earth in 1995.

25 times

Which update brought iOS to iPad?

3.2 update

___ percent of users don't go more than an hour without checking their phone. More than half said they check their phones while in bed, before going to sleep, upon waking, and even during the night. For those aged 18 to 34, that number jumps to 74 percent.

60

A new iPhone CPU has ___ times more transistors than a 1995 Pentium.

625

By 1999....

80 billion consumer photos taken on film. This year, 800 billion photos shared on social networks. More iPhones and Android phones sold than Japanese cameras ever.

Smartphones are far more sophisticated than PCs.

A computer shouldn't ask anything that it should know.--> sensors profoundly change what a computer can know every new sensor creates a new business.

Smartphone

A smartphone is a portable personal computer with a mobile operating system with features useful for handheld use. Smartphones, which are typically pocket-sized have the ability to place and receive voice/video calls and create and receive text messages, have virtual assistants, a note-taking application, an event calendar, a media player, video games, GPS navigation, digital camera, and video camera.

____is the top-selling smartphone OS in 2016.

Android

Android

Android is an open-source platform founded by Andy Rubin and now owned by Google. Although Android's adoption was relatively slow at first, it started to gain widespread popularity in 2010, and in early 2012 dominated the smartphone market share worldwide, which continues to this day.

Tech is still a pretty small industry.

Cars, apparel, mobile, advertising, and TV were the highest= cars being the highest and Music being the lowest.

Three phases of technology deployment:

Companies make technology Companies that write a check to buy technology Companies that are created with technology.

TV sets are now in the minority.

Computing devices used for video now far outnumber actual televisions.

The first Symbian phone, the touchscreen ___ ___Smartphone, was released in 2000, and was the first device marketed as a "smartphone".[

Ericsson R380

The mobile supply chain

Flood of small, cheap, low-power, high-performance smartphone chips enabling new categories; wearables, internet of things, smart tv, connected cars, drones, etc. and pushing into the data centre. From 'big iron' and Intel to ARM and commodity components.

One of the main characteristics of smartphones is their screen.

It may fill some of the device's front surface (about 70%), or like the iPhone X or Galaxy S8, most all of the available space is reserved on the front display. Many have an aspect ratio of 16:9; some are 4:3 or other ratios. They are measured in diagonal inches, starting from 2.45 inches. Phones with screens larger than 5.2 inches are often called "phablets". Smartphones with screens over 4.5 inches commonly are shifted while using a single hand, since most thumbs cannot reach the entire screen surface, or used in place with both hands. Liquid-crystal displays are the most common; others are IPS, LED, OLED, AMOLED and E Ink displays. In the 2010s, Braille screens, which can be used by visually impaired people are being developed. It is expected that Braille screens will use some type of microfluidics technology. In addition, some displays are integrated with pressure sensitive digitizers such as those developed by Wacom and Samsung. These digitizers allow users to have greater precision when utilizing touch-screens for drawing or for jotting down notes. Starting with the iPhone 6S, Apple released pressure sensitivity for their mobiles under the name 3D Touch.

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, and backed by an industry consortium known as the...

Open Handset Alliance

_____ had to recall millions of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones due to an explosive battery issue.

Samsung

Which update brought iOS 5?

Siri

Prevalence of smartphones

Smartphones accounted for four out of every five phones purchased in the US. They estimated that a smartphone now sits in about two-thirds of American adults' pockets.

Mobile scale eats consumer electronics.

Smartphones and tablets are now close to half of the consumer electronics industry.

Ericsson R380

The Ericsson R380 (2000) by Ericsson Mobile Communications. The first device marketed as a "smartphone", It was a PDA that supported telephony, limited Web browsing with a resistive touchscreen, utilizing a stylus.

The _____ was the first Android phone, sporting a QWERTY slider design and a large touchscreen, this was just one of many designs under consideration by Google and manufacturer partner HTC, which for many years lived as a nameless ODM.

The T-Mobile G1

"Science" study

The authors of a study published in the August 2011 issue of "Science" said that Internet-connected devices such as smartphones have become a kind of "external memory source". The authors wrote that "We are becoming symbiotic with our computer tools, growing into interconnected systems that remember less by knowing information than by knowing where the information can be found."

T/F: More time is spent in mobile apps than on all of the web.

True

Google VP _____ took to the stage to introduce Android as an alternative to a totalitarian future under Apple and Jobs.

Vic Gundotra

In January 2015, Microsoft announced that its ___ ___ ___will be phased out and replaced with Windows 10 Mobile, bringing tighter integration and unification with its PC counterpart Windows 10, and provide a platform for smartphones and tablets with screen sizes under 8 inches.

Windows Phone brand

this came along with the iPhone 4S. It came with Siri, notification center, iMessage, no PC required in order to be activated, iTunes Wi-Fi sync, over-the-air updates, iCloud

iOS 5

Which update updated Siri and dumped google maps?

iOS 6

The utility of mobile increases as...

income falls.

Samsung

is by far the largest manufacturer of Android phones (and is one of the only profitable ones).

Android

is well-known as an open-source operating system, meaning anyone can download the Android source code and build their own version of the OS.—Android Open Source Project.

skeuomorphism

making features and controls within the user interface resemble real-world objects and concepts in order to improve their usability

By 2020, another 1 billion people will come online all due to...

smartphones