Talk:Smartphone/Archive 4

Ideas for improving the tone
For editors wondering why the "tone" tag was added, I did it because of issues like these: For some good examples of what to aim for, check out History of the Internet or History of the Personal Computer -- they describe objectively important tech details & devices without showing attachment or going into lists. (The "smartphone" article is basically an ongoing history piece we're adding to as time goes on; we just have to figure out what will matter 20+ years from now vs. what we personally think is impressive.) —Xyzzy☥the☥Avatar 06:52, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Large sections are nothing more than feature lists in paragraph form.
 * Some areas or sections seem promotional or fannish, not objective. (I got the feeling many phones were covered in detail not because of their historic importance, but because the writer owned one.)

Improving the introduction
There's a lot of work needed to improve the overall tone of the article. For one, it didn't mention NTT's Docomo phones which had full-featured web browsing and video playback as early as 1999. Instead of re-doing the whole article, though, I focused on the introduction, and considered probably two key encyclopedic questions about smartphones: What are they? and Where did they come from?

The first paragraph is about "and"-phones, (i.e. camera-and-phone). This is a simplified way of thinking about early smartphones, which then paves the way to seeing the significance of smartphones as essentially laptops in your pocket.

The second paragraph, about how smartphones came into existence, doesn't start with the first smartphone, because smartphones are a vague concept and not really an "invention" (which we can go into more detail later) but an evolution. They capture the popular gadget culture, and so I highlighted three peaks in widespread adoption: the early mass adoption in Japan, the BlackBerry phase, and now the Android/iOS phase. —Philosophistry (talk) 04:01, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Ideally the introduction should give a good definition of what a Smartphone is. Academic literature gives the following: ""Smartphones have four defining characteristics: to make and receive telephone calls and SMS messages, to access the Internet via cellular and/or WiFi networking, to run software applications of the user’s choice at the user’s discretion, and internal data storage. Individually, these functions can be managed by legacy mobile phones, laptop or tablet computers, but only in Smartphones are all four functions integrated into a single device. Additional common features of Smartphones include camera functionality, multimedia playback and supplementary networking abilities such as Bluetooth, infrared, or near-field communication"."

- Bredican, Mills, Plangger — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.194.248.228 (talk) 14:55, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Complete revamp
I chopped the article down by maybe 70%. It seems to have accumulated a lot of technical details over the years. Tone: I removed a lot of the sensationalist language that creates a technological progress narrative or competitive narrative (i.e., "finally was achieved when" or "but, this competitor finally responded with"). Citations: There's a lot less material now, and a citation on nearly every area. The ones that don't have citations, can be inferred from the citations within the rest of the article or in the wikipedia pages that are referred to. —Philosophistry (talk) 01:01, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Mass adoption subsection
I revised the Mass adoption subsection of the History section today, as the latter part of it was written in a conversational style without any citations. I retained parts of the content, with the addition of a CN tag, but I will continue to monitor it for non-encyclopedic, opinion-based content. Regards,--Soulparadox (talk) 15:50, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

economical smartphone section
This is pretty poor and far too long considering its importance and prominence. I was going to start a debate in here to see what others thought, but there were so many things troubling me about that section that I thought it made sense to clear it out completely. If anyone has any thoughts or objections, please post them in here.Rayman60 (talk) 19:54, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Samsung everywhere
Why are there so many Samsung-related pictures here? It's almost like a piece of advertising rather than an article. — WLM /  ?  15:52, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

List of models
I don't think this is a good idea. It has several of the biggest sellers, but is also marked as incomplete. Over the years there have been hundreds of models. If the list is filled without applying a narrow criterion of inclusion, it will dominate the article. I figure it should be either spun off to its own list article, or simply killed. Jim.henderson (talk) 22:18, 23 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree, there's a few hundred phones that could go here. If I had the time and energy, I'd rename it, "top 10 bestselling smartphones today," gather the intel to list the top 10 smartphones in order of sales, and call it done. I'd also like to see them grouped by brand/significant features, but that's even trickier.  Mwenechanga (talk) 23:24, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Comment is sparse, growth is fairly slow, and time is short for me today, so I shall wait awhile unless someone else takes the bull by the horns. We have lists of similar items such as tablets, and they indeed have grown large. Conscientious updating seems a waste of time, as that would be principally for shopping and Wikipedia will never match the average shopping site for timeliness or the trade news for comprehensiveness. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:43, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

False picture
That picture on the top of the page says that it's Galaxy Note 4 in the photo. But it's not, it's probably Galaxy Note Original. Fix that please :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.248.145.131 (talk) 19:35, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Merge with Phablets.
There is no clear distinction between "Phablet" and "Smartphone". Both are devices which can make and receive calls and are held to the ear. And in many cases are still just as usable with one hand. Some larger phones also have the ability to be used at a smaller display area to allow one hand use. Such as the larger Sharp Aquos Zeta series. Also larger screens is a natural evolution of smartphones as technology increases and becomes cheaper to produce. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8739ccc (talk • contribs) 06:58, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Removing list of devices
Based on the discussion from a few weeks back and my own thoughts, I've removed the list of devices (see this edit). At the time of removal, it was an indiscriminate list of phones with no clear qualifications on what should and shouldn't be listed. I can't see the list improving to the point of being useful with the broadness of the subject and the thousands of smartphones out there. The most notable smartphones are discussed and linked to throughout the rest of the article's prose. Thanks, ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 19:33, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Pinging editors from previous discussion:  ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 19:36, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Image in lead
Previously there was no image in the lead, but one has been added. The new image is pretty uninformative, a shot of three people in a room texting. It really contributes nothing at all to the article. OTOH, The lead is a bit bare. Perhaps some pictures of two or three popular models would be good. Perhaps a couple of images along the lines of:. Rwessel (talk) 05:40, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * As there have been no other comments, I'm going to remove the (awful) image of three people texting from the lead. Rwessel (talk) 17:46, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The current lead image shows five smartphones with their power off, and dark screens. IMHO, the key feature of a smartphone is the colored display screen. I think the lead should show one or more smartphones with their power on, to show the screens in use, displaying photos, icons, etc. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 15:02, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The only thing good about the page's current lead image is the fact that there are multiple smart phones being displayed. I agree with you, it would be much better if the phones were on and the screens were in use. Meatsgains (talk) 15:07, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It would be POV pushing to use an image that only depicts iPhone devices. ViperSnake151   Talk  15:21, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Good point. It could be WP:UNDUE WEIGHT on iPhones to show only iPhones. I will look for an image that shows a variety of smartphones with their screens on and post it here for discussion and comment. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 15:53, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

We've now somehow ended up with an image which shows the backs of four smartphones, which seems a bit oblique. I've replaced this with File:Fotos produzidas pelo Senado (30554309793).jpg (two phones, different models, screens on, being held for scale), although I've no idea what the models of phone depicted are. --McGeddon (talk) 14:48, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * In that photo, it is a Samsung Galaxy J5 and an iPhone 6S. I can tell it is a 6S because the phone is rose gold and the 6 did not have a rose gold option. The J5 can be identified by all of the dots at the top. --Frmorrison (talk) 22:03, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

"swipe"
Very little here about that term, nor is it present much in the Touchscreen and Multi-touch articles. How come ? --Jerome Potts (talk) 15:46, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Mobile phone?
Nowadays, many people use their smartphone for anything but voice conversations. Sometimes one can read stories like, 'this is a good camera, excellent lenses, easy to handle, and by the way, you can also call somebody with it (because it really is a smartphone)'.

But I have the impression that the current lead downplays the phone element a little too much. After defining the smartphone as 'a mobile personal computer (...)', it gives a long list with abilities, and while 'the ability to place and receive voice/video calls' is the first in the list, it is also one of the few without a link. It is not elaborated if an instrument has to have all of the mentioned features to be called a 'smartphone'. A reader could think that an instrument lacking the first one could be a smart phone as well.

In my opinion, a smartphone is a mixture of a mobile phone and a general-purpose computer. If you cannot call or be called with it, it is not a smartphone but a PDA, tablet or whatever, but not a smartphone. Or is the present use of the term in English different?

The only reference for the definition (footnote 1) says something entirely different than this article: it defines the smartphone as a 'category of mobile phone that provides the functions of a small computer'. (I must say that I removed two other footnotes and  because they were not very relevant.) Apparently somebody changed the definition without changing the reference, which leads to misrepresentation of the source. Bever (talk) 23:03, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Good point. I've added text to the lead mentioning smartphones subsuming fixed-line or basic voice-only mobile phones, and wiki page links to "Telephone call", "Videotelephony", "Telephone", and "Mobile phone" Lun Esex (talk) 00:10, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

It doesn’t make any sense to call a smartphone an object with the primary function of calling in addition to other ‘computer features’; It makes a lot more sense to define telephone calls as one of the ‘computer features’. The only things that separate tablets and smartphones apart is the fact that smartphones always are integrated with cellular capability, while tablets aren’t always. Smartphones also have smaller screens, while tablet screens are generally larger. Shickorbob (talk) 23:12, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

It explicitly states that smartphones have cellular, more than once, in the intro..
“A smartphone is a handheld personal computer with a mobile operating system and an integrated mobile broadband cellular network connection for over-the-air data communication to the Internet.”

Right after, it says:

“Smartphones are typically pocket-sized (as opposed to tablets, which are much larger than a pocket), and have the ability to access the Internet through cellular networks or Wi-Fi.” Shickorbob (talk) 22:57, 28 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I redid the two sentences, so the first mentions Internet access via the cellular network, as well as Wi-Fi, and the second just talks about smartphone size vs. tablet size. Guy Harris (talk) 23:17, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

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can we add oxygen OS under operating software?
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 * I.e., adding OxygenOS as an Android derivative under Smartphone? Guy Harris (talk) 20:48, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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Would it be reasonable to add an timeline section?
Due to the speed of which smartphones is and has been evolving, would it make sense to make a timeline section on this to give readers a better grasp on the development? Maybe something like this (made up years):

2009: First smartphone

2010: Almost all smartphones have retina displays

2011: Android is now 60 fps

2012: Front facing cameras starts appearing

2013: Cloud storage is now the norm

2014: Most smartphones now have nano sim

2016: Only physical buttons is volume and sleep button

2017: Majority of smartphones have fingerprint authentication

That's just a few on top on my head. I could probably add much more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrconter1 (talk • contribs) 10:57, 15 March 2018 (UTC)


 * What you proposed would not be useful, since this list is made with original research. You would need to find a source that determines what are the most important developments, since some of these items listed is not important. Your list does include fingerprint readers that were not mentioned in this article, so I just included some content about those sensors. --Frmorrison (talk) 15:34, 15 March 2018 (UTC)


 * That list was just made up. I know I can't add all of those. But don't you agree that something resembeling that list, with carefully choosen developments and sources, would give the reader a good understanding on smartphone development? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrconter1 (talk • contribs) 07:45, 16 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Perhaps a list would be useful, but it seems better to write in prose (normal paragraphs) any development items that are missing. I don't like the idea of a list since there are so many things that could go there. --Frmorrison (talk) 15:37, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Make page: Telephone computer
The term/noun/hypernym telephone computer is more generic thus doesn't necessarily imply a smartphone.


 * desktop or server telephone computer
 * tracking device with telephone number and a thorough computer (not a simple GPS)
 * a "problematically" designed smartphone which doesn't meet the criteria of a true smartphone
 * ... (add new entry)
 * a cyberspace device with a telephone card and an operating system or merely a CPU and some basic components

some viruses attack telephone computers, not only smartphones; using more English nouns makes you more aware about specifics — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:2149:8239:2d00:f87e:eed7:7a8f:7a9b (talk • contribs) 09:43, 1 July 2018 (UTC (UTC)


 * Before we use that term in a Wikipedia article, much less as the title of a Wikipedia article we will need a reliable source establishing that it's a term that people actually use. and indicating what it means - the bulleted list in your comment is just a laundry list of a bunch of different types of machines. Guy Harris (talk) 16:40, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Touchscreen and touch interface in the lede para
Hi, I think that the touchscreen and the touch interface are important parts of a smartphone and deserve to be in the lede para. Noaccount4736954 (talk) 17:24, 6 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Then move it there, don't duplicate it! Guy Harris (talk) 17:55, 6 July 2018 (UTC)


 * The detail will be too much for the lede para.Noaccount4736954 (talk) 17:59, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 August 2018
https&#58;//digitalboyzz.blogspot.com/ (talk) 13:50, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Important Smartphone Tricks And Hacks Who Can Change Our Daily Life
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. L293D (☎ • ✎) 15:06, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Form factor shift
The "form factor shift" was written like an Apple ad. In January, i edited it, attempting to make it more neutral (link). On October 6th, the section was reverted to a more biased, Apple-centric state (link), for example ignoring that Apple wasn't the first company with the capacitive touchscreen form factor and using marketing terms. While this was reverted by another user, he stopped edit-warring after reverted back to his version. I hope this explains why marketing-centric edits to this section weren't universally appreciated. I'll try to make the section more neutral and kindly ask anyone to discuss here to keep the article neutral when in doubt. PizzaMan  ♨♨♨  22:19, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 8 July 2019
2405:204:60A4:C711:0:0:11AC:28A0 (talk) 10:19, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
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Who said you couldn't do that?
The Deaf and hard of hearing factor

"Watson: come here I need you!" (1) Sound familiar?

Text telephones, pagers, PDAs - these devices were ideal to facilitate communication between the Deaf and the larger community.

Putting a keyboard on a telephone, was not a new idea. Blaudiscet (spelling and date) set about invent

Providing visual representation of audio communication proved to be popular and smart. Soon most people wanted to try these new "tech tools" for communication. And not just with the Deaf and hard of hearing.

1. 66.183.203.170 (talk) 20:45, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Smartphone market has shrunk since 2016
Presently the page says that the smartphone market has seen continual growth since 1996. That growth stopped in 2016, which marked the high point. 2017 saw fewer shipments (though increasing installed base, ie phones held by different people) - ref Ditto for 2018, and 2019 expected to see the same. Thisischarlesarthur (talk) 17:38, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request
This sentence is needlessly convoluted and difficult to read (especially around the "on in" bit). Please change: The trend at the time, however, that manufacturers competed on in both mobile phones and PDAs was to make devices smaller and slimmer. To: PDA and mobile phone manufacturers competed in reducing the size of devices.

The following assertion needs a citation: The term "app" is a short-form of the term "software application". I expect the claimant saw that definition in a Texas Instruments programmable calculator manual or a Psion palmtop manual (both of which boast the ability to install and run APPs). Certainly when Apple's System 6 had APPL files they were listed in the Finder as "Application program". Without a citation, "software application" is speculative original research. 49.195.120.115 (talk) 11:42, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

✅ Meatsgains (talk) 00:46, 15 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Much appreciated! 49.195.120.115 (talk) 15:25, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 October 2019
216.55.246.36 (talk) 14:32, 18 October 2019 (UTC) smartphones ae beneficial o learning
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Semi-protected edit request on 7 November 2019
The sleep category mentions that for Android, you can download 3rd party apps. Please update it, add that night mode has been introduced to Android starting Android Oreo (8.0), it may still vary by manufacturer companies like Honor, Huawei, Asus, OnePlus, Samsung have it named as Night mode / Blue light filter on their devices already, they don't require Android Oreo update, [this part on right side is already included, just need to rename it] if your device does not have it, here are the 3rd party night mode apps you can download

Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/night-mode-on-android-886864/ Vansh9 (talk) 02:25, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

✅ The section has been updated. Lun Esex (talk) 09:52, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

MOSFET
MOSFET - they did not evolve as such, but the new manufacturing technique ALD (Atomic layer deposition) enabled more transistors into smaller space.

so I suggest replacing MOSFET with ALD. Honor to the one who has the honor - ALD is Nobel matter ;)

"these issues were eventually resolved with advances in MOSFET (MOS transistor), lithium-ion battery and mobile network technologies." Mun Tilit (talk) 22:37, 31 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Or maybe we should just get rid of Smartphone - yes, MOSFET integrated circuits were one technology that enabled smartphones, but the history of MOSFET belongs in MOSFET, not in multiple articles about every technology that was enabled by, or improved by, MOSFET ICs. Guy Harris (talk) 23:01, 31 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Agreed. MOSFETs aren't even primary subcomponents in smartphones, like mobile processors, batteries, displays, antennas, etc. They're components of components. Discussion of them in high-level articles like those for smartphones, tablet computers, consumer electronics, etc. is excessive and unnecessary technical detail. It's like an in-depth digression on the wiki pages for washing machines, electric scooters, ventilation systems, etc. on the minutia of the discovery of copper because it's used in the wiring for their electric motors.


 * Support nomination of the entire Smartphone section as a candidate for deletion. Lun Esex (talk) 14:28, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree, the section is gone now. --Frmorrison (talk) 18:41, 4 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I've now summarized that stuff down to a single paragraph, with a single sentence on MOSFET scaling and another sentence on the lithium-ion battery. Maestro2016 (talk) 01:50, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 January 2020
There is no information in this article about addictive nature of the smartphone. Please add information that there are many derogatory terms like "iCrack" used by people to describe addictive nature of the iPhone.

Many social media apps and websites are also intentionally designed to be addictive as possible.

Source: https://propakistani.pk/2018/07/05/social-media-platforms-are-designed-to-be-addictive-insiders/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/27/mobile-phone-addiction-apps-break-the-habit-take-back-control https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=icrack

12:26, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 * ❌. Smartphone and we also have an entire article on Problematic smartphone use. ViperSnake151   Talk  15:37, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

stc 3910 executel
a first smartphone? or forerunner? there are descriptions like "desktop information device" or "intelligent display telephone", could connect to servers for some online services among other things

3910 is called desktop information device / desktop telephone system / all-in-one communications system / desktop telephone terminal /  integrated, multifunctional, networklinked,publicdata, desk communication terminal Setenzatsu.2 (talk) 16:21, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

wearable category
or (which seems true) Nubia Alpha is the world's first wearable phone with a flexible display according to

Neptune Pine was maybe first, some were actually delivered to their backers. 95.178.152.20 (talk) 07:32, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Omate TrueSmart could be the first Wearable Smartphone, although it is marketed as a smartwatch. 95.178.143.119 (talk) 09:53, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Change the picture to demonstrate current and modern smartphones ( 2019 - 2020 )
I think we should change to something more like this: Modern phones ( iPhone 11 and Galaxy S20).

It is important because it is not only a matter of preference. Smartphones have really changed a lot from what they were 5 years ago. If we continue to show pictures of the old iphone 6s in the "smartphone" article, it can be misleading because this is not how modern smartphones look like. Therefore, it does not illustrate the modern smartphone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Numb47127 (talk • contribs) 13:42, 10 May 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm not opposed to this change however, can you provide an updated image to add to the page? Meatsgains (talk) 17:47, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * What has changed in the last five years that a new picture would show? The picture shown is not significantly different than current one. --Frmorrison (talk) 04:35, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Intelliphone project
by Digital Research. The true story or ... Gary Killdall, inventor of the smart phone by George Wenzel, people confusingly called it a pbx. the button-free smartphone, years before apple even had the ipod. Gary had elimited buttons in favor of the "application defined user interface". His design sketch looks just like a modern smartphone (early 2010), only no switches or buttons at all. It should be researchd further and added to the article. Setenzatsu.2 (talk) 16:04, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 26 August 2020
Please replace this sentence A smartphone is a mobile device that combines cellular and mobile computing functions into one unit. with this one A smartphone is a portable device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit.

Reason: "Mobile" as an adjective is confusing because the word is misused here in the sense of "portable". For example, an automobile is mobile, but not portable. 2A00:23C4:7316:4A01:9C89:82A8:3E1D:AD4F (talk) 15:50, 26 August 2020 (UTC)


 * ❌. "Mobile device" used as a noun is the common name of a category of devices. Mobile in this sense is not an adjective. ◢  Ganbaruby! </i>  (Say hi!) 16:42, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

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I think that the article is missing a reference to the device SAGEM WA3050 which was released in Nov 2000 and was the first device where Windows included a version for mobile. (https://news.microsoft.com/2000/11/09/sagem-and-microsoft-announce-a-breakthrough-wireless-mobile-device/) Samhailuc (talk) 19:19, 2 November 2020 (UTC)Samhailuc

Phone notches
Some smartphones today have notches, such as the iPhone 12 Pro/Pro Max. Can somebody at least add a section about smartphone notches in Hardware or make a article about smartphone notches? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qyedmawfd (talk • contribs) 16:00, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Notches are already extensively mentioned in the article as part of design and screen technology trends. ViperSnake151   Talk  16:42, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

"While Driving"
"In other countries including the UK and France and in many US states, only the use of calling on handheld phones is banned, while hands-free use is permitted."

Calling and hands-free operation aren't mutually exclusive. I'd even argue that calling is probably the most common "hands-free" activity conducted on a phone. 139.138.6.121 (talk) 08:05, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I've rewritten it as "In other countries, including the UK and France, and in many US states, calling is only banned on handheld phones, while hands-free calling is permitted.", to make it clearer what was, presumably, meant. Guy Harris (talk) 08:48, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

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180.217.147.231 (talk)please remove this on my phone my phone is ruin ~


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 * "Study reveals scale of data-sharing from Android mobile phones". Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
 * Liu, Haoyu; Patras, Paul; Leith, Douglas J. (October 6, 2021). "Android Mobile OS Snooping By Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei and Realme Handsets" (PDF). Retrieved November 16, 2021.

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A smartphone can also accommodate attachments such as Bluetooth headphones, power charging connections, and additional speakers. Due to the thin outer coating on most smartphones, owners frequently purchase capacitive screens and more sturdy cases to safeguard their devices. Because smartphones have an operating system and apps installed, they receive regular software updates. Manufacturers update mobile operating systems multiple times a year. Customers can accept or reject frequent software upgrades for private mobile apps in the app store. — Preceding unsigned comment added by USerEditor5433 (talk • contribs) 13:06, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

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Adding Microsoft again to the “List of current smartphone brands”.
I am also warning that Microsoft since 2020 is already again in the Wikipedia article: “List of mobile phone brands by country”, at the end of the list in “North America”, “United States” ”, because of the Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2 Android Smartphones released in 2020 and 2021. Monica Nick (talk) 03:43, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. The list is not all-inclusive, this should maybe be discussed first to see if maybe a single phone (or two?) warrants inclusion. Aoidh (talk) 07:25, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

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Concert lighting
Maybe another telling/typical visual example of our, is that during concerts instead of lighters (example) we now use smartphones (example). Although small the latter image may not be very recognizable, and the section already includes several images. --2001:1C06:19CA:D600:D2EA:A47D:92F4:1BBD (talk) 11:11, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

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