Mobile Applications-Future of Smartphones?

The use of Smartphones has witnessed an exponential increase in the recent years.  The popularity of Smartphones can very well be linked with their capability to act as communication devices and for other uses.  Just like other ordinary phones, Smartphones also enable communication despite the communicating parties being very far away from each other. In Business, Smartphones are widely used to communicate with business partners.

Today’s range of Smartphones comes equipped with thousands of applications to entertain their users. Modern smart phones, on top of all these in-built applications, also run a horde of free and paid applications. The app-driven life has kick-started a new computer revolution; one that has spread faster and become more intimate than any before. Smartphones have transformed the single-minded cell phone into a mobile personal computer (Zheng & Ni, 2010).

Smartphones applications enable social media networks to conduct business on a wider scale. These Smartphone apps have also allowed business to be conducted in non-traditional ways. Employees are now able to conduct business through their phones no matter where they are at. Several Smartphone apps assist people in multi-tasking more efficiently. In fact, small businesses can run almost every aspect of their company from their Smartphones. On the other side, we will find users for whom Smartphones are solely an entertainment tool.

Users can play advanced computer games on their Smartphones, they can watch and download movies and listen to stored music or opt for radio stations through the use of these apps. Equipped with superior capabilities to access the internet, these smartphones apps can be used for searching for information on almost every aspect of life. With these apps its users can read news online according to their interest areas; be it sports, politics or entertainment news.

The future looks very promising for the Smartphones. There is no doubt that these smartphones applications make our lives easier. However, much of the Smartphone’s capabilities revolve around the applications that it offers. These apps are very important in determining the future of a Smartphone. It is these apps that give Smartphones an extra edge that ordinary phones do not have.