Mobile phones specially smartphones have revolutionized communication in a way where with just one tap, we can experience multiple services such as calls, messages, video calls, grocery shopping, food delivery and a lot more. Smartphones have brought the entire world in one digital box offering a variety of features where starting from booking flight tickets for the next travel destination to ordering home decor for your newly built home, everything is just a tap away. Be it doing office meetings, client presentations, important documentations to creating a viral reel for social media, smartphones have made life and communication a lot easier than we realise. Gone are the days when for taking important lessons or learning new courses, we had to open our dekstop computer or laptop. Now with just one tap, we can learn from hours of recorded classes and crack even the toughest competitive examinations.
A feature phone is a type of mobile phone using an embedded operating system with a simplified graphical user interface and its functions are limited in comparison to the regular smartphone. A feature phone has greater capabilities than a normal basic phone but less than a smartphone, offering functions such as text messages and voice calls and includes some multimedia features, basic internet services and others. Feature phones are less costly than smartphones and have a physical keypad with a smaller screen. They have longer battery life with basic web browsing and multimedia features and other carrier services. Feature phones can be utilised in industrial environments, outdoors, workplaces and are equipped with basic hardware functions including FM Radio, flashlight. This helps to prevent the device from turning useless in case of a disaster or when 5G network is down.
Having or carrying a multi-purpose feature phone is a necessity nowadays as often we land up in or face emergency situations in life where our daily use smartphone may stop working and in those cases a multi – purpose feature phone can be of great help to us, specially for the elderly.
