What applications on a smartphone?

There are more smartphones than desktop computers in 2010 and knowing that they have capabilities superior to those of computers 10 years ago, but the screen size, a programmer must consider it as the privileged platform of development , nowadays.

What is a smartphone?

A mobile phone is considered as smart when it can add applications, turning it into a computer, and connect to the Web.
The phone function is incidental to such a device that is a a kind of assistant with multiple capabilities.

Applications on smartphones

We can not list all web applications and all games and even less again the assistants of all kinds, but it is interesting to look at applications specific to mobiles that only work with such a device.

Operating systems

WebOS from Palm (now HP) is considered the most successful, while that of the iPhone is probably the easiest to use.
Google's Android has the advantage of the opening. As webOS it is open source, and unlike the iPhone application store is open to all development technology.

The list of all mobile OS and how to program them is given in the article Programming for mobiles.

Statistics

Comparing sales of smartphones by operating system. If Android continues to grow, he will join the iPhone in September 2010 (in USA it is already at the same level).

Mobiles shares on the US market by Comscore - All mobiles.

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