Mobile Phones - The King of Gadgets

The present day mobile handset can aptly be referred to as the 'King of Gadgets'. Why? The modern day phone is an all-in-one device. It brings into your palm a big wide world of advanced technologies, all enwrapped in a compact little cuboid case. Cell phones can be:-

A camera - High resolution camera phones are available in abundance these days. Not just 3.2MP and 5MP camera phones, you even get 8MP and 12MP camera mobiles in stores today. Such gadgets also sport features like autofocus, touch focus, image stabilization, LED or xenon flash, face and smile detection and much more. Perfect shots are just a click away.

A satellite navigator - With GPS integration and maps, handsets can help you find your way around town. Some cell phones even give voice guidance to let you reach your destination without difficulty. Digital compasses are also incorporated in certain phones. So you'll never lose your way when you have a GPS-ready handheld with you.

A laptop or more befittingly, a mini netbook - Smartphones are based on operating systems, just like laptops. They are capable of almost all kinds of computation done by a laptop. Be it emailing, surfing the internet, socialising, viewing & editing documents and more, mobile handsets can handle them all. Managing and syncing your calendar, schedules, appointments and most official tasks can be made a breeze with some of the technology-rich handsets out there.

A multimedia player, a gaming device and sometimes a TV as well - Most phones feature media players these days. Some of them have headphone sockets too. They even have large screens with suitably high resolutions for comfortable viewing of videos. Either huge in-house memories or memory card readers, let you store all the music and media files you want. Games are also pre-loaded in handsets. You can download them from the internet as well, with certain phones. A few handhelds even come with digital TV output, which lets you tune in to the TV channels too. Entertainment had never got so mobile before!

A payment device - Paying your bills or wireless transactions can also be done with certain handsets.

Despite having imbibed the traits of almost all gadgets, a mobile phone has never forgotten to be a phone - a gateway for your voice to reach your loved ones in an instant.