Feature phone
A feature phone (also feature phone or feature phone ) is a mobile phone that is less than a smartphone does, however, more than just phone calls can. Typically, such a telephone also has, for example, a camera , a radio receiver , an organizer and MP3 player as well as simple games and also a web browser , which can be controlled via a graphic user interface .
The most important difference to smartphones is the lack of a touchscreen and the use of a different operating system (e.g. KaiOS , Java ME or Symbian OS ) than the popular Android or iOS . As a result, not all apps of these systems run on feature phones . A big advantage of feature phones over smartphones is the longer battery life.
Feature phones are sold by companies such as Caterpillar (Cat), Nokia , Samsung and LG , among others . The devices are sold in developing and emerging countries , such as B. the JioPhone in India .
In 2013, more smartphones than feature phones were sold worldwide for the first time.
Other names
The older term dumbphone [ dʌmfəʊn ] ( Engl. Dumb = stupid and phone = phone) is created in in the 1990s retronym , so a neologism referring to the era before the smartphones ( Engl. Smart = smart and phone = phone) refers . It is also used occasionally in the German-speaking area. Dumbphone has a slightly derogatory connotation .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Smartphones Accounted for 57.6 Percent of Total Sales in Fourth Quarter of 2013 , gartner.com, February 13, 2014, accessed February 15, 2014
- ↑ Definition of dumbphone in the Oxford Dictionaries
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- Market shares for smartphones and dumbphones: Smartphone market shares - Samsung is pulling Apple away, LG is catching up , Der Spiegel , July 26, 2013
- Jochen Dreier: Wipe impossible: The strange market of dumbphones ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ZDF blog Hyperland , June 27, 2013
- De: Bug 145 , DeBug , August 26, 2010
- Edge phenomenon Android 4.0: who is to blame? , Der Standard , March 6, 2012
- Film data sheet Computer Chess , Berlinale 2013
- Reto Vogt: Seniorenbook , Migros Magazine , February 3, 2014
- Sebastian Heinrich: New fame for "best cell phone in the world"? , Mittelbayerische Zeitung , January 16, 2014