Recently Samsung launched Jét S8000 with tagline as “Smarter than a Smartphone”. I have been reading reviews of Samsung Jét for quite some time. It indeed has a mean hardware under its hood. Its 800MHz application processor is more powerful than 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor used in iPhone 3GS or Plam Prē.

In the mobile world these two phones, especially the former is considered as pinnacle of mobile technology. Their Operating Systems -- OS X and WebOS respectively are nothing but a stripped down versions of a full fledged computer OS. On other hand Samsung Jét runs a proprietary OS called Samsung Handset Platform (SHP) that does not support 3^rd party software. So why does Jét requires such a colossal processing power? Why Samsung calls it “Smarter than Smartphone”? To find answers to these questions I dug deep into what “Smartphone” means and found some interesting facts.