Morgane RENAUDI, Reda SIDQUI, Josphine WAYMEL Group 6B

New Technology in Equipment

ISmartphones

A- What is a smartphone?
A smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile operating system, with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than a feature phone. The first smartphones combined the functions of a personal digital assistant (PDA) with a mobile phone. Later models added the functionality of portable media players, lowend compact digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and GPS navigation units to form one multi-use device. Many modern smartphones also include high-resolution touchscreens and web browsers that display standard web pages as well as mobileoptimized sites. High-speed data access is provided by Wi-Fi and mobile broadband. In recent years, the rapid development of mobile app markets and of mobile commerce have been drivers of smartphone adoption. Ok

B- Operating systems
In 2012 :

Iphone 5S VS Galaxy S4 :

C- Leaders : Samsung vs Apple

The iPhone 5s offers faster performance (thanks to its A7 chip), a more premium design (now in more colors), a superior content and app selection, and better audio quality. And even though the Galaxy S4s camera has a higher megapixel count, overall, we preferred the images taken by the iPhone 5s improved iSight camera.

2 Plus, once developers can tap into both the Touch ID sensor and M7 coprocessor, the 5s will improve with age. On the other hand, the Galaxy S4 boasts a bigger and sharper 5-inch display, which will sway many shoppers. And even though iOS 7 is improved, Samsungs TouchWiz UI lets you better tailor the interface to your own needs. The S4 also has more special features, such as its TV remote control, gesture support and multiple camera modes. Although the iPhone 5s and Galaxy S4 offer comparable battery life, only the S4 lets you swap out the battery for another pack and expand its memory. Overall, the iPhone 5s is best for those who demand faster performance and a superior camera in a compact design. But if bigger is better for you both in terms of screen size and features the S4 is the smartphone to get. Who is the leader on the smartphone market ? Strategy Analytics has become famous for lumping these sales together to award Samsung for being the global smartphone leader, despite the fact that Samsung Mobile earns much less profit (over $3 billion less, below) than Apple despite its much larger numbers of smartphone shipments (more than 3.5x, above).

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D- Smartphone Application
A smartphone application is the basic software that is downloaded and installed on your smartphone, just like an ordinary software installed in a classical computer. The smartphone app can be downloaded from the phone via its internet connection, or from the computer when the smartphone is connected to it.

Some of the 100 best apps for smartphones : Evernote : Evernote is an online collection of everything you want to remember. Evernote stores photos, web pages, notes, PDF files, audio clips, and to-do lists. What's great about Evernote is its indexing feature. Once you add things to your notebook they're completely searchable and can be accessed on your desktop, the Web, or your mobile device. Snapchat : Snapchat is a fun way to share self-destructing photos with your friends. Snapchat is a very popular photo-sharing app. With Snapchat it's easy to share self-destructing photos and videos with other users. Instagram : Instagram is the most popular mobile photo-sharing app around. The popular photo-sharing network makes it easy to share pictures and videos with friends and followers on most social networks. Instagram is known for its photo editing "filters" which add flair to an otherwise dull photo. Vine : Vine is a creative way to share six-second looping videos. Vine lets you splice together clips that play on a loop and share them with your friends. You can edit videos on the spot and post to Twitter and Facebook. The community also allows you to find, follow, and interact with other Vine users. GroupMe : GroupMe is the best way to stay connected with a group of friends. GroupMe is an app that makes it easy to send messages to groups of friends. The app can assign a unique phone number to a group, so even people without the app can join in the conversation. Shazam : Shazam will identify the song you're listening to. Shazam has worked hard to keep its music discovery and recognition app fresh and relevant. Besides being able to process your request in seconds, Shazam has even expanded its recognition chops to let you know other media that's playing like ads and TV shows.

4 Waze : Waze uses user-submitted tips to help you find the best routes. Waze is a mapping application that Google recently purchased. It gets a lot of its data from its users. For example, users can tell Waze about traffic accidents, police activity, or gas prices. All that information benefits the Waze community. Like other mapping apps, Waze can give you turn-byturn driving directions too. Moves : Moves is a fitness-tracking app that lets you ditch wearable tech and just use your smartphone to track your steps. Moves uses the sensors in your phone to automatically track your everyday life and exercise. With Moves, you can record your daily walking, cycling, and running. The app will also help you keep track of the places in your daily life and build a storyline, and can count your steps and calories burned based on various activities.

E- App audience
To get to an audience comparative at the apps audience, youd need to combine the circulation of the largest 200 weekend newspapers in the U.S. or combine the audiences for the 3 most highly rated primetime TV shows during a good TV week.

F- Smartphones users
Out of the 5 billion mobile phone users in the world, 1.08 billion are smartphone users. More than 91.4 million smartphones users are from the U.S. Smartphone platform Android has the highed market share of 46.9%. 89% of smartphone users use their smart phones throughout the day.

Morgane RENAUDI, Reda SIDQUI, Josphine WAYMEL Group 6B 92% of smartphone users use their smarphone to send text messages to other phones. Whereas, 84% of users use their smartphones for browsing the internet. The age group of 25-34 has the highest smartphone penetration rate of 62%. 50% of Android Smartphones and 43% of Apple iPhone users are younger than 34 Years. 53% of smartphone users are male and 47% are female. Android Smartphone owners consume the highest amount of data at 582 Mbs a month, while iPhone owners on consume 492 Mbs of data a month on average. Apple iPhone users download the maximum applications per month, which is 48. Downloading applications is the most popular data usage acitivity for smartphone users. Singapore has the highest smartphone penetration rate in world, which is 54%.

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Limits

A- Smartphones and privacy: the example of tracing

Tracing the smartphone is controversial. Indeed, Apple and Google have introduced a system of tracking users in their smartphones. Here, freedom and privacy are at stake. However, the plot makes it possible to locate on a map, get the fastest route to get from point A to point B. Smartphones, including downloadable applications, transmit real-time marketing sections of the service providers of personal data of users, often without their consent. This data is carefully analyzed, thus implementing a true segmentation and profiling of users. This raises ethical problems. Applications are often downloaded too quickly to check if personal data are processed. It is advisable to disable tracing when its possible to protect your personal data and privacy. ok

B- Time spent with smartphones

Well, on average, its about an hour, according to a new study from Experian. Interestingly, nearly half that time is spent talking and texting, with email, social networking and Web browsing each outpacing playing games. Watching video, meanwhile, accounted for only 1 percent of total

6 time spen t on sma rtph ones . (Tha ts a bit ske wed, as 98 perc ent of peo ple surv eyed didnt watch video at all, meaning that those who did watch video spent considerably more time doing so.) Also, not all smartphones are used equally. The study found that iPhone owners spend considerably more time using their phones about an hour and 15 minutes, compared with 49 minutes for the typical Android phone owner. They also split that time somewhat differently, with Android phone users spending more time talking and Web surfing, and iPhone owners doing more texting, emailing and taking pictures.

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Conclusion
To conclude, new technologies changed our entire lives between the way we work or the way we communicate. But in the coming years, technology is going to take even a bigger place by changing the way we see with the Google Glasses. (video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSnB06um5r4 ) Sources : - http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/06/only-one-third-ofsamsungs-smartphone-sales-are-in-the-class-of-apples-iphone-aapl - http://www.businessinsider.com/100-best-apps-for-iphone-andandroid-2013-9# - http://blog.laptopmag.com/iphone-5s-vs-galaxy-s4 - http://allthingsd.com/20130602/average-american-spents-an-hour-aday-of-quality-time-with-their-smartphone/ - http://www.digitalmarketjobs.com/number-of-smartphones-users-inthe-world-top-1-billion-predicted-to-double-by-2015/