Perhaps the greatest advantage to owning a smartphone is the availability of thousands of small applications - called apps. A wide variety of apps can be downloaded from online stores, allowing you customize and personalize your phone. Games, photo utilities, online magazines and interactive reference apps can help enhance how you use your smartphone. Most apps must be purchased, but are inexpensive. Several apps are free. The small size of most apps, combined with the large storage capacity available on smartphones means you can have dozens or even hundreds of apps stored on your smartphone - an app for whatever you are in the mood for or whatever you need to get done.
Tablets vs. Phones: Which Activities Are Better?
There’s not only a large amount of overlap in activities between smartphones and tablets, but owners of both device types also agree they want a faster mobile Web experience. The data come from Keynote’s Mobile User Survey (PDF), which the company published on Monday after surveying 5,388 people who owned either, or both, a smartphone and a tablet. The top “mobile frustration” is that slow mobile page load time, even though 27 percent of respondents use their device on a 4G network.
The results may not surprise, as Keynote Systems is a San Mateo (Calif.)-based mobile Web monitoring company. But in speaking to many mobile users on my own, most do cite slow page load times as a challenge, particularly over mobile broadband. So I dug a little deeper into the survey results to see what other interesting insights might surface. It turns out that when looking at which activities both devices are used for, some

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