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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 minicomputer 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:

                     Factors                   Smartphone                                   Tablet
               Main Usage          Used as a phone with Internet access,  Used as a wireless portable PC with a touchscreen.
                                   email, social networking.            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 to  Watching videos and making changes to a photo is
                                   a picture is difficult               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
                                   Phones with higher storage are costly.  store more images, videos, and apps

              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
                                 Phone              whose 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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