FEATURE MOBILE PHONE

Feature mobile phone:

Feature phone is a term typically used as a retronym to describe mobile phones which are limited in capabilities in contrast to a modern smartphone. Feature phones typically provide voice calling and text messaging functionality, in addition to basic multimedia and Internet capabilities, and other services offered by the user's wireless service provider. A feature phone has additional functions over and above a basic mobile phone which is only capable of voice calling and text messaging.Feature phones and basic mobile phones tend to use a proprietary,custom-designed software and user interface. By contrast, smartphones generally use a mobile operating system that often shares common traits across devices.

Several distinct operating systems have been developed which can run on a feature phone.These operating systems are designed to be lightweight to increase the feature phone battery life, work well with a small screen which does not have touch features,and also work well with a small hardware keyboard such as T9 keyboard commonly found on feature phones.

Definition:

Prior to the popularity of smartphones, the term 'feature phone' was often used on high-end phones with assorted functions for retail customers,developed around the advent of 3G networks,which allowed sufficient bandwidth for these capabilities.Feature phones were typically mid-range devices, between basic phones on the low end with few or no features beyond basic dialing and messaging, and business-oriented smartphones on the high end. The best-selling feature phones include those by Nokia, the Razr by Motorola, the multimedia-enabled Sony Ericsson W580i, and the LG Black Label Series that targeted retail customers.