Smart Phone and how does it work in many fields ?

Calculator: there are numerous applications that enable you to perform all the operations of a scientific calculator. This helps reduce the amount of items students must carry in their bags.

IBM sold a smartphone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third-party apps in 1994. – Source

In an interview with All Things D in 2010, Steve Jobs explained that “I had this idea about having a glass display, a multitouch display you could type on. I asked our people about it. And six months later they came back with this amazing display. And I gave it to one of our really brilliant UI guys…I thought, ‘My God, we can build a phone with this,’ and we put the tablet aside, and we went to work on the phone.” And for more on Apple, here are 10 Crazy Cool Design Innovations at Apple’s New Headquarters.

It costs less than $1 a year to keep your smartphone charged up. – Source

Edit videos: not only can we make videos, but we can also edit them, add text, filters, effects and more.

Android began as a startup aiming to create an operating system that would use digital camera devices that could access computer services. Google purchased them in 2005 for an undisclosed sum (though estimates put it at about $50 million). For more on the world’s biggest search engine

According to top addiction experts, “Giving your child a smartphone is like giving them a gram of cocaine”. – Source

Make presentations: instead of having to carry around external hard drives and USB sticks, store the material in your mobile phone and connect it directly to the projector. Have you tried ‘play mode’ using the ExamTime Mind Map tool?

On a by weight basis, there is more gold in a smartphone than there is in gold ore. It takes a ton of ore to get 1g of gold. But you can get the same amount from recycling the materials in 41 mobile phones. – Source

Remote control: whether switching from one slide to another during a presentation or stopping and playing a video, there are applications that enable you to use our smartphone as a remote control.

Google Maps draws on data from its Android users to help measure the speed of traffic on the road, leveraging the GPS in every smartphone to help get a picture of how fast cars are moving. If that seems creepy, Google assures users that “even though the vehicle carrying a phone is anonymous, we don’t want anybody to be able to find out where that anonymous vehicle came from or where it went—so we find the start and end points of every trip and permanently delete that data so that even Google ceases to have access to it.” Oh, and speaking of Google, here are our Favorite Celebrity Google Arts and Culture Selfies.

in late 2008 many critics thought Android would fail miserably whereas, as of Feb 2015, Android holds about 85% of the total smartphone OS market share. – Source

Communicate: the PA system is a thing of the past. If a student must go to the secretary or principal’s office, you can communicate with them through a text message.

Look at any billboard, commercial, or print ad that includes an iPhone screen with the time on it (or iPad or Mac), and you’ll notice that it’s always 9:41. According to Scott Forstall, former iOS chief, the reason connects to the moment when the products are unveiled at the famed Apple keynotes: “We design the keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation,” Forstall said. “When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience’s watches. But we know we won’t hit 40 minutes exactly.”

Smartphones are capable of receiving FM radio signals, but phone/wireless companies deny that consumer demand is strong enough to justify activating it. – Source

Store Formulae: smartphones allows us to store mathematical and scientific formulas close to hand. There are applications that already contain hundreds of commonly used formulae, all you have to do is look for them.

According to an analysis by IHS Markit, the materials that make up an iPhone X add up to $370.25. By far the most expensive part of it? The new OLED screen, costing $110 per phone. The next-most expensive items: The $61 steel enclosure, and the $35 rear dual-lens camera module. Remember the shock of people everywhere, when Apple announced the cost of new iPhone? We sure do. In fact, here are The Best Reactions Yet to the New iPhone’s Big New Price Tag.

An obscure Chinese company has become the top smartphone seller in Africa, largely because they adjusted their phones to work with darker skin tones. – Source

Apple competitor Samsung actually manufactures a number of iPhone parts, including NAND flash memory chips, DRAM chips, and—most recently—that pricey OLED display in the iPhone X. According to the Wall Street Journal, the $110 Samsung will make for every one of the thousand-dollar phones sold will add up to more than it’s bringing in from its own Galaxy S8.

Control noise in the classroom: your mobile phone can serve as a decibel meter and tell you when the noise level gets too high. Reward the students by keeping the noise at an agreed level. Recommended application: Too noisy.

On iPhones, You can Take Photos With the Headphone Cord
Though headphone cords will soon be a thing of the past, if you still have a now-vintage pair of earbuds, you can use its cord to snap a pic. It’s an ideal trick for when you want to take a selfie from a little farther away. Still loving headphones, us too

Dockers recently increased the size of their coin pockets to accommodate the growing size of smartphones. – Source

Updates: Remind is an app designed to send notifications to parents and/or students without knowing their phone number. This means that the boundaries between privacy and the classroom can be maintained while communication is not hampered.

Nokia Users Ain’t Loyal
When it comes to sticking with their current smartphone brand, Nokia and Motorola are some of the ficklest customers, with just 42% and 56% retaining their brand, respectively. The most loyal customers are Samsung (with 77% retention) and Apple (with a whopping 92% retention).

Locate points on the map: during class location based apps can help when introducing students to a region of country. Applications such as Google Maps help us to locate ourselves and are great in History and Geography classes.