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At Verizon Wireless, what is the difference between a Smart Phone and a regular cell phone?

Maybe it's not just Verizon Wireless but that is the only place I have shopped around for phones.

Public Comments

1. smart phones the phones, that you can go on the internet with, check your emails, reply to your emails, download attachements, such as spreadsheet, excel, word on to your device, and edit it and a regular cell phone, can on on the internet but you can not download any attachements unless its pictures and the internet isnt full access they are mostly for talking./texting/and entertainment purposes! and i am talking about sprint and verizon phones, not really sure about att and t mobile :)
2. a blackberry would be a smart phone. i think a phone that can get email.
3. The smart phone has a limit of 125.00$...The regular phone lets you ring up your bill.That is how cell phone companies make their money.After 125.00$ you get shut off until you pay it
4. regular phones will let you call and send short messages (SMS or text). a lot of the more recent ones let you email, chat and browse the web. most of them have simple applications like calendars, calculators, timers, games, etc. some will even have cameras and music or multimedia players. However what you see is what you get. whatever came with the phone when it left the factory is pretty much what you got. you can probably ad more simple applications like games or change your desktop wall paper, ring tones etc. Smart phones may or may not have all of these. But they do have a distinct advantage over regular phones. with smart phones, you can install more complex applications. with some, you can even fiddle with the operating software at the risk of screwing it up.