About Smartphones

What can be alluded to as a Smartphone? The best description of a Smartphone comes from Michael Junto Yuan's article on the O'Reilly Network. In short, a Smartphone is a converged device that has characteristics of both a computer and a mobile phone.
Unlike a traditional mobile phone, a smartphone has large amounts of local storage and memory and an operating system. And unlike a traditional computer, a smartphone has full telephonic utility.
What else sets a smartphone apart from other mobile devices? Please add your thoughts and link to great examples.
It's programmable! The ability for third-party programmers to create applications that make the user experience richer is one of the characteristics that makes smartphones the perfect converged device. What are some of your favorite applications? Notice: Please be careful when downloading applications for your smartphone. Neither HTC nor the HTC Wiki can assure that all the links posted here are valid software and not malware. For more information see the HTC Wiki Validity of Content page.
It can synch up with your desktop or laptop to act as a computer away from your computer.
It can act as a mobile Instant Messenger.
It can access the net via both WAP or HTML, giving you access to all the Web 2.0 features that you'd use on your main computer.
Fun stuff! With the addition of a memory card, smartphones can act as a mobile entertainment center to watch video, listen to music, and create user-generated content, including audio, video, blogging, and photography. RDM SOFTWARE - Smartphone allows you to remotley access your home computor.