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Abstract

The evolution of telephone communication networks and the pervasiveness of cell phones have changed our lives forever. Contemporary smartphones (and associated apps) make all the knowledge in the world available at our fingertips, anywhere, all the time. In this chapter we present an overview of the current state of the art in the smartphone arena, as well as suggestions of useful apps.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Eight of the Top 10 apps are owned by Facebook or Google [5].

  2. 2.

    https://www.facebook.com/onthisday.

  3. 3.

    300 million active users as of April 2016 [16].

  4. 4.

    http://www.apple.com/iphone/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.android.com/phones/.

  6. 6.

    Most of the recommendations listed here are iPhone-specific [8], but they address privacy and security concerns that are common to all smartphone users. For Android-specific recommendations, check [9].

  7. 7.

    See http://goo.gl/7g3xRZ for a list of apps in that category.

  8. 8.

    See http://goo.gl/G8cf7g for a list of recommended content blocker apps for iOS.

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Marques, O. (2016). Smartphones. In: Innovative Technologies in Everyday Life. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45699-7_3

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