Smartphones Definition and 13 Threads

Greetings folks. I have noticed that a lot of people into physics and math tend to use Androids (Samsung, etc), so here is a poll to see if that is true. I like both operating systems, but currently use a lower range Android, but am planning on getting a mid-range Android from Samsung instead of...

If Ma Bell had not been broken up would we have smartphones today?

The speakers in smartphones are very loud for their size. Where can I find a small one like this? Everything on Amazon or eBay is significantly larger. There are small speakers online but they are no where near as loud as the smartphone ones. Thanks in advance.

Is it just me or lately there is a big fuss about this? I keep running into news of a recent study that has found smartphones may induce cancer on rats and so on... Did they really find something relevant or is it just the same old story?

Is it feasible to design and construct State of the art Smartphones with inbuilt mini projector device functionality ? As we know there is a inbuilt torch feature in the Smartphones but has limited functionality. If not, Why? Thanks & Regards, Prashant S Akerkar

Is there a cooling fan with a heat sink on the Smartphones CPU - Quadcore processor and above similar to the desktop and Server CPU? If not, why?. Is it not required? Thanks & Regards, Prashant S Akerkar

Is it feasible to design and development Smartphones apps which will access,control & monitor quadcopter Drones operating at 2.4 GHz & 9.8 GHz wireless frequencies? Thanks & Regards, Prashant S Akerkar

I was wondering about to buy a graphing/scientific calculator but I have some hesitations. Should I really buy one to make math study better or would buying a smartphone be a better choice? I have an win 8.1 smartphone with 512 mb ram and 4.5-inch screen. Would it be a better choice to buy a...

My old iPhone 5S is retiring. Today got my new LG G6. I am able to sync the contacts to G6 via Gmail. My question is how to transfer text messages, photos, notes and music from iPhone to G6? There are about 70G of data.

So I've been looking at information at how magnets interact with things like credit cards, smartphones, etc. and I've noticed that there's an endless debate as to how magnets affect smartphones. I realize that it has to do with the size of the magnet and exposure, so for the sake of example...

Is it technologically possible to improve the speed of these machine's charging? I mean, I want to go now for a walk, but it seems I need to charge my phone for at least 30 minutes, can we lower the expected charging time? What obstacles do we find to overcome this? Thanks in advance, MP.

So I was at the restaurant last night, and noticed that at every single table with parents that had kids that looked like they were in college/high school/ or even preteen, all of the kids were on their smart phones for almost the entire dinner. The one table looked like there were 2 or 3...

Today's smartphones, almost every model have accelerometers. Is it possible that one can obtain the x,y,z co-ordinate positions from these accelerometers time to time? And how accurate are these values? Means what's the frequency of receiving signals? What is the approx. minimum displacement...