User:Corielle Staples/Cell Phone Processors

Cellular phones feature traditional phone services such as call waiting and voice mail. Many now come with calendars, contact lists, texts messages, email, GPS, and Internet Browsing. Cell Phones have evolved from their early days as large, chunky, boxlike devices to become compact, full-featured communication and information storage devices. Cell phones offer all of the features avaliable on a traditional telephone system, including auto-redial, call timers, and voice-mail capabilities. Some cell phones also feature voice-activated dialing, which is important for hands free operation. Cell phones can offer text messaging, personal information management features, voice recording, and digital image and video capture. Cell phones are so advanced that they have many same components of a computer a processor, (central processing unit or CPU), memory and input and output devices. The input devices for a cell phone is primarily the microphone, which converts your voice into electronic signals that the processor can understand and a keypad, which is used for numeric or text entry. Cell phone output devices is the speaker & text messages.