Smartphones for Smart Businessmen

Being a sales person or business management operations is not what it used to be a decade ago. Now, information technology advancements controls almost everything and more importantly the smooth flow of data has become the key for success. Over the past a range of products and devices were invented to assist businessmen to smooth-up the whole business processes. The buzz now is ‘smartphones‘.

Smartphones comprising various brands and device types have become the best devices to stay mobile yet well-connected. They are extremely portable and can easily replace your mobile phone, laptop or PDA. In short smartphones are devices which are far smarter than normal mobile phones and far more convenient to use than laptops. The features of a smartphone differ considerably with different brands and models.

Features of a Good Smartphone

A smart operating system that is easy to use, smart in handling commands, but puts very low stress on the memory. The popular mobile operating systems include open-source operating systems like Android from Google and Symbian from Nokia, and closed source operating systems like bada from Samsung, BlackBerry OS from BlackBerry, iOS from Apple and Windows Phone from Microsoft.

Convenience to carry and operate. Most smartphones and tablets are shortened and lighted enough to fit on a shirt/coat pocket and to operate by only one hand. The phone display is brilliant with touchscreen and auto rotation, and often with multiple home screens and a range of gadgets and applications.

Better connectivity is always ensured. Most smartphones come with basic to high-end connectivity solutions like USB compatible ports, 2G and 3G connectivity support, GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth and WiFi. The increased number of connectivity options can help you to always stay in touch with the office and personal files and with friends, co-workers and customers.

Smartphones offer good support for social applications and office programs. Smartphones come with applications for accessing and managing web, email, calendars, documents, spreadsheet, etc. And, for chatting and using social networks. Moreover, the synchronization features help you keep everything organized and up-to-date.

Smartphones also come with the standard features of mobile phones, but optimized better to meet personalized and business needs. For example, the contacts, phonebook, SMS, MMS, alert and schedule, etc. can be personalized and customized to meet custom personal and business needs.

As always like investing everything else, you should be extremely careful in finding and choosing the right device that can meet your personal and business needs. As generally the smartphone is going to replace both your mobile phone and laptop computer, you should be sure about the things or applications you want on the smartphone. And, like everything else cost and ROI should also be a deciding factor.