Smartphone Technology, History and Innovation

The evolution of Smartphone Technology

What is a Smartphone

As mobile phones started to be used widely across the globe in last decade, the evolution of those devices was a logical step forward. Almost every mobile phone manufacturer have started building a devices that are called smartphones.

Day by day we constantly face new types of technologies and infrastructures that help advance us as a society because our need to communicate and interact. One of the most monumental contributions, in IT, was the development of the first computer along with the Internet itself. These two developments have shaped society, as we know it today and further contributed how we send and receive information. In our type of society, where everything is moving at a fast pace, we want to have access to advanced services and technology indoors and outdoors in a simplistic way or form. From these two things alone, it has also influenced something as complex yet simple as a smartphone. According to Rysavy (2010), a smartphone is a clever device with high-quality services that is portable, user-friendly, interactive and most importantly beneficial. Smartphones have made it possible to make simple task easy and accessible but has also made it a target to malware developers.

While the use of a computer and laptop are huge advances, it is becoming more common to see people access the Internet with their tablet or smartphone. These individual tools are almost as powerful as things such as a netbook and it is also doubled as a cell phone and they are able to access the internet anywhere even without the use of WI-FI (Wireless Fidelity, Wireless Internet).

Evolution of smart phones

With the invention and launch of the iPhone in 2007, it started a boom of smartphones through out the world. Different manufacturers strive to prefect the perfect phone in order to commend their dominance in the smartphone industry. A perfect phone nowadays does not only include the actual notion of communicating with someone but has to have internet, games, a high definition camera, built in music application, a GPS, a video call function and much more. Even with those features it has to be user friendly, small enough to carry around but also big enough to use the services to its full potential. With the invention of the smartphone it allows users to have certain apps or applications in order to full fill numerous types of task. For example, the user is now able to quickly put in notes towards their phone and send map locations to friends and family with the ability to do so in relatively long distances.

With mobile phones, smartphones and the Ipad being much like its predecessors, the Personal Computer, it is often we hear about security threats. Luckily we mainly hear about these issues with people of higher social status such as public officials or celebrities but that does not make the issue any less severe. Even so, as the adaptation of smartphone increases, these devices are targets to attackers who wish to infect them with malware and even simple developers can write these malicious software. According to Rodrigues (2011), “Smartphone malware isn’t yet as big a threat as you might think, but it’s coming.” Also Rodrigues (2011) stated, malware writers usually target Android apps because of the way they are set up—usually writers can disable an app, “repackage” it with malware and upload it again with a different title. Cyber-criminals have managed to create malware to specifically attack and pilfer through ones mobile baking account, which has been the case of those with online and mobile baking (McGarvey, 2012).