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 12/12/2010
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What makes a smart phone smart? | |
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 By Lee Sun-ho
Ever since the first smartphone called ``Simon” was designated by IBM in 1992, we have been hearing the term frequently tossed around the world during the recent couple of decades.
If we have ever wondered exactly what a smartphone is, we are not alone. It is rather awkward to explain how it is different from a cellular phone and why it is so smart.
In a nutshell, a smartphone is a device that is digital, active and computer networked. The term also refers to a ubiquitous computing device, including artificial intelligence.
A smartphone allows the consumer to install and run more advanced applications based on a specific platform. It is considered as a Personal Pocket Computer (PPC) with mobile phone functions, because those devices are mainly computers, although much smaller than a desktop computer (DC). Therefore, a PPC is more personal than a DC.
The standard meaning of the adjective, smart can be illustrated as clever, chic, grace, intelligent or stylish, picking up on the original semantic element of vigor quick movement.
However, as a fast-changing engineering terminology, the adjective connotes as being capable of making adjustments that resemble human decisions in response to varying light conditions and to an electronic control unit or sensor. Making a specious remark, each letter of the adjective may stand for super-duper, marvelous, attentive, remunerative and terrific, respectively.
Smartphones offer the feature we need to manage the myriad details of human life whether that includes reading e-mails, surfing the web, backing one’s family schedules, or rescheduling different social gatherings.
The world is currently in an uncertain stage of emerging electric or electronic PPC devices whether to be rejoicing or to be despairing. All the smartphone developers are likely to actively involve cutting-edge global research and applications to changing circumstances for their own global immersion trip.
Everything we need to know can be traced and clarified by way of various emerging PPC devices. ``TGIF” can be enumerated as follows: Twitter, 140- character short message service (SMS) launched in July 2006 with over 190 million consumers worldwide; Google, hosting and developing worldwide a number of Internet-based services and products begun in January 1996 at Stanford Univ.; iPhone introduced by Apple in January 2007, and iPad, a tablet computer released also by Apple in April 2010; and Facebook, a social network service and website launched in February 2004 having more than 500 million active consumers across the globe.
In Korea, exemplified devices are Me2day, a leading micro-blog service acquired by Naver in December 2008, and Cy (cyber or ``between” in Hangul) -world, a widely-popular social network service (25 percent of the Korean population) originally launched in September 1999 and purchased by SK Communications in 2003.
Finally, the currently sensational whistle-blowing database of the WikiLeaks, appeared in December 2006 founded by Julian P. Assange, an Australian Internet activist disclosing a vast medley of dazzling diplomatic records.
Smart PPC devices can be enlarged in diverse spheres of human activities other than cellular phones. They can be exemplified as a smart grid, a form of electricity network utilizing digital technology, a smart card which is pocket-sized card with embedded integrated circuit, generally made of plastic and providing strong security authentication, smart missiles relying on ship sensors and their own onboard sensors to track their targets, and so on.
These smart-era factors depend on how a majority of consumers smartly apply them to a smart revolution for the day-after-day human digestion convenience based on the free-choice of their tangible wants and needs by smart generation, smart profession, smart talent and smart attachment.
The writer is an outside director of Kunwha Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. in Seoul. He can be reached at kexim2@unitel.co.kr.
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스마트 폰 관련 독백
I. 18년 전 IBM의 최초 스마트 폰 “사이몬” 출범 -> 최근 수년간 이어지는 스마트 폰 변 혁의 세계적인 파급효과 실감 -> 스마트 폰 혁명시대 진입 과정.
II. 스마트 폰의 특징: 계수형, 적극성, 컴퓨터망 연계성, 활용 고도화, 편재성, 사적용도 보 안성, 상시휴대 간편성 등 다양화.
III. 형용사 "스마트“의 의미
1. 표준 : 똑똑한, 세련된, 우아한, 영리한, 멋있는 등의 말뜻을 지님
2. 공학 : 변화무쌍한 여건 하 -> 감지기의 뜻 의미 -> 인간의 결정에 따라 신속히 적 응할 수 있는 능력을 보유.
3. 말장난 : S (극상의), M (훌륭한), A (주의 깊은), R (이익이 되는), T (맹렬한).
IV. 스마트 폰의 기능: 이메일 읽기 -> 거미줄 파도타기 -> 가족일정 챙기기 -> 각종 모임 조절 등 다양한 편리성.
V. 신규상품 개발의지: 인류발전의 속도에 진입 -> 스마트 폰 발달에 부응한 예리한 연구 개발 -> 기술의 응용/활용을 통한 예측 -> 삶의 질 높이는 자기계발.
VI. 신규로 개발된 휴대기종 사례
1. 트위트, 구글, 아이폰/아이패드, 페이스북 - 이상 TGiF
2. 미투데이 (네이버의 미니누리사랑방), 사이(사이버 또는 사이)월드 - 이상 한국품목
3. 위키리크스 (호주출신 쥴리언 피 어샌지(39)가 설립한 세계외교기밀 폭로사이트) 등.
VII. 스마트 디바이스 (창문)의 향후 다양성 기대
1. 활용사례 : 스마트그리드 (차세대지능형전력망), 스마트카드, 스마트 탄도(유도)탄 등 -> 각 분야로 파급과정
2. 성공요인 : 스마트혁명의 성공여부와 스마트 시대로의 진입강도 -> 소비자들 유형별 욕구 및 필요성에 근거한 부단한 활용/소화 편의의 정도에 따라 차이 -> 세대별, 직업별, 직능별, 집념별로 “스마트“한 결과도 다변적 양상. -이상- |
