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Smartphones Are Huge Although they may be small to look at and fit neatly into the palm of your hand, the popularity of smartphones is spreading like wildfire. In the last quarter o f 2010, over one hundred million smartphones were sold. For the first time ever, this number was more than the amount of personal computers sold in the same qua rter. Experts estimate that by the end of 2011, over half of the population of t

he United States will own a smartphone.

Internet Is Key While smartphones may be huge, the Internet is bigger, and a smartphone without the Internet is like a hamburger without a bun. Currently, a quarter of smartpho ne users rarely access the Internet from anywhere else except their smartphone. Experts are projecting that by the year 2013, smartphones will be the primary de vice that people use to access the Internet, having finally overtaken personal c omputers and laptops. If your smartphone doesnt yet have access to the Internet, it m be time to think about getting a new one.

Power Is Precious Even with few phone calls being made or received, many smartphones tend to run l ow on battery more than once a day. The strength of the smartphones battery is surpas g even its design or the quality of its camera in importance. More and more peop le are bringing their chargers with them wherever they go. Checking your email, watching videos, and playing games will all drain your battery quickly, so avoid these things if youre trying to preserve power.

Call Quality is Linked to Design If you ever look at a photo of an early cell phone, you may notice with some amu sement the giant antenna protruding from its back. Todays smartphones have eliminated e necessity of an unsightly antenna because the device itself acts as the phones ante . Unfortunately, however, some of the more aesthetically designed smartphones fa ll short in the call quality arena because the aesthetics of the phone short-cha nges its antenna function. In the worst cases, the phones awesome design can cause ca to be missed or dropped.

Most Smartphone Apps Get Boring Fast Depending on the platform of your smartphone, there may be thousands of apps ava ilable to you or even hundreds of thousands. The average smartphone user downloa ds at least four new apps every month. Unfortunately, however, studies show that the vast majority of apps downloaded " a whopping 90 percent " are only used about mes and then forgotten. Being selective about which apps you download and deleti ng the ones you dont use will save you space and battery life.

Your Smartphone Knows You Better Than You May Think Even though some things your smartphone knows about you may be obvious " things like your contact information, what youve said in your text messages, and who your friends e " some other things it knows may surprise you. Your smartphone can be used to find your present location as well as other locations that you have recently visited. It may also be used to find incriminating pictures of you, dubious websites you may have accessed, and what your future plans are. Smartphone Privacy Is Thin The worst part about your smartphone knowing you so well is that very little of the information it contains is actually kept private. Although the policies of I nternet and phone providers vary, many of them contain provisions for the inform ation of their users to be accessed when necessary. There Are Smartphone Viruses Although there are a lot fewer of these than personal computer viruses, they do exist. The vast majority of smartphone viruses only affect jailbroken or modifie d phones, but viruses that attack regular smartphones are growing in number.