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• It supports mobile banking applications and secure transaction services, allowing users to manage finances,
                   make payments, and conduct transactions from their devices.
                    • Many smartphones come with health and fitness applications, including step counters, calorie trackers, and
                   heart rate monitors, contributing to users' well-being and fitness goals.
                    • It offers educational applications, e-books, and online courses, providing a portable and accessible platform for
                   learning and skill development.

                 Tablets
                 A tablet is a mini computer with input, output and processing functions that are
                 all combined into one device which, can be operated via ‘touchscreen’. You can
                 perform various tasks just by touching the screen. It is bigger than a smartphone
                 and performs all the functions that can be done on a computer or a smartphone.
                 Difference between a smartphone and a tablet are:

                                                   Smartphone                                  Tablet
                  Main Usage           Used as a phone with internet access,  Used as a wireless  portable PC with  a
                                       email, social networking.            touchscreen. Some  tablets use Android OS,
                                                                            others use Apple iOS or Windows OS.
                  Screen size          Smaller                              Bigger than Smartphone
                  Photos and Videos    Watching a movie or making changes  Watching videos and making changes to a photo
                                       to a picture is difficult            is better and easier due to bigger screen size

                  Battery Life         Shorter                              Longer than smartphones
                  Storage              Comes with different storage capacities.  Usually have higher storage capacity, i.e., they
                                                                            can store more images, videos, and apps
                                       Phones with higher storage are costly.


                 TV and Radio
                 TV and radio have been used as an ICT tool for both entertainment and to learn
                 new things. Radio is used to broadcast audio that includes news, songs, stories,
                 speeches, cricket commentary, etc., while TV is used to broadcast audio-visual
                 content to a wide audience. It is a powerful communication tool used for watching
                 movies, news, weather forecast, songs, cartoons and educational lectures etc.


                 Applications or Apps
                 Mobile applications, commonly referred to as "apps," are software applications designed to run on mobile devices
                 such as smartphones and tablets. These apps are developed for specific operating systems like iOS (Apple), Android
                 (Google), or sometimes both. Some of the apps are already present on the phone or tablet. These are called
                 “default” apps. Besides, there are hundreds of other apps that can be purchased and downloaded or downloaded
                 free of cost from online stores like Google Play Store for Android and Apple App Store for iOS.

                 Some of the default apps installed on all smartphones are:
                                    Application                                Functionality
                                                    It stores contact details (name, phone number, etc.) of the people whose
                                 Phone              details you want to save in your phone. It also helps you to make calls
                                                    and see recent calls details.



                                 Calendar           Shows a calendar and you can also add appointments, reminders, etc.


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