"In a report out today, industry research firm ABI challenges one of the possible labels for Apple’s iPhone. Namely, that it is a “smartphone.” The device may be many things, ABI says, but a smartphone it ain’t.How do you figure that? Well, the research firm defines a ‘smartphone’ as “a cellular handset using an open, commercial operating system that supports third party applications.”
Because iPhone runs Apple’s proprietary OS X operating system, ABI analysts Stuart Carlaw and Philip Solis say, that means it cannot be rightfully labeled a ‘smartphone.’
Solis and Carlaw stress the lack of openness to third-party applications, saying that feature phones, unlike smartphones, are closed and controlled by the operator and/or manufacturer. iPhone therefore falls into the ‘feature phone’ category."
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http://blog.tmcnet.com/wireless-mobility/abi-apple-iphone-is-not-a-smartphone.asp
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