but....
by definition a smartphone is one which can have applications added to it. The iPhone isnt a smartphone... most every phone these days has a web browser, email, etc... though it is terrible. The iphone is the best non smart phone out there, but it isnt a smartphone
I'm fine with that, if that's the general definition of a smartphone and everyone uses it. But this is actually the first time I've heard that.
Internet, multimedia, the ability to view email attachments, etc...those are more the things that come to mind for me.
I can buy crappy games and Java apps on my RAZR- does that mean it's a smartphone?
What if all these companies develop for mobile Safari services that are basically as fully-featured as regular installed app? Does that count?
Again, I'm fine with whatever is the industry standard (since it's all semantics anyways.) But I don't think there really is one. The other thing about using this as the definition, is that most people never buy 3rd party apps anyways. A common mantra regarding Palm PDA's is that 95% of the users only use the default apps. So making that the definition seems suspect to me (in addition to the question of whether my RAZR is then by 'definition' a smartphone.)