Smartphone Technology Is Far Beyond Where We Imagined It To Be When Cell Phones First Came Out

Today, there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of repeaters (or more) and more cell phone towers everywhere, it's virtually impossible to go anywhere on the planet where you can't get a signal. In areas where signals are weak on normal cell phones you can find a GPS satellite phone that doesn't use the repeaters or cell towers at all- it literally bounces a strong signal out to the satellite in space and uses IT to broker the phone call connection.

Chances of needing a satellite phone for most people is very low and the network has been slowly getting faster and faster to the point of a 4th generation of network updates (where technology is completely updated to a new version, new equipment, and a much faster connection speed through the air). Smart phones are as powerful today as computers were in the year 2000. That's just the lower end ones. The high end smartphone is as powerful if not more powerful than today's latest computer technologies.

iPhone 5 Features

The iPhone 5 has not yet been released in the market. However the predictions about iPhone 5 features seem to have taken the world by storm. It is believed that this latest gadget will change the way smartphones were perceived till date. Almost all the cell phone and Apple sites are ablaze with features that this new entrant can be expected to have.

All that can possibly find entry into the yet to be launched iPhone 5 are as follows:

· The phone is supposed to have an all metal body. The back panel too might be metallic making iPhone 5 a completely different experience from iPhone 4. This new upgrade might do away with square edges and go for curved surfaces. It would also have a larger display area of about 4 inches.

· The next expectation is about the curved 3D glass display. Although the 3D glass display might be a farfetched idea, Apple has bought 300 special glass cutting machines. If that is true, Apple's surely up to something new in the making.

· People are also hopeful that the iPhone 5 features will include an 8 MP camera, with dual flash on the rear. This will enable the users to click good quality picture, with high-resolution even in low light situations.

· Of all the anticipated iPhone 5 features, the most awaited is without a doubt the A5 processor. Apple had introduced the dual core processor in iPad 2, and hence it is quite logical to expect that the same would be used for iPhone 5 as well.

· One of the most glaring things to do would be to do away with the home button. It is expected that Apple is moving towards a more gesture based interface with the help of its iOS 5.