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SMARTPHONE COMPUTER
A smartphone is powered by a chip. Not
to be confused with the SIM card,
which communicates with
external networks, a chip
is a small computer
processor that makes all the
The chip is no phone’s many features work.
bigger than a
fingernail.
SAY CHEESE EMOJIS
Historically, self-portraits were The earliest emojis were designed in
only painted by artists or taken 1998 by Shigetaka Kurita, an employee
by cameras set on a timer. of a Japanese cell phone carrier. They COMMUNICATION
Thanks to innovations such as convey complex information about
the smartphone’s front-facing human emotions in a single character.
camera and selfie sticks we
have all gone selfie crazy.
WOW!
A poll by smartphone-
maker Samsung found that
selfies make up 30 percent
of the photos taken by
people aged 18–24.
SMART TECH
In the race to entice consumers,
smartphones have become ▼ FINGERTIP SCAN
A smartphone with a
thinner, faster, and, well, fingerprint scanner
smarter. New, clever appeared in 2007 but the
technology includes use technology became
widespread with the
of the camera as a scanner,
iPhone 5S in 2013.
for instance, to translate
foreign text on a menu.
◀ FACIAL RECOGNITION
Several phones have facial recognition
as a security device to unlock a
phone’s screen. Some identify patterns
in the iris of the eye, others use
infrared to scan the whole face.
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