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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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smartphones do so much more than simply make and receive phone calls—

we surf the Web with them, stream music and video, send and receive e-mail,

and even do work with them—the infrastructure and technologies that

connect smartphones with a mesh of networked data and services must be

fast, robust, and secure.

Most smartphones run one of the big two operating systems: Google

Android or Apple iOS (see Figure 24-3). iOS runs exclusively on Apple

hardware, such as the iPhone. Phones running Android come from a

multitude of manufacturers. Smartphones typically have no user-replaceable

or field-replaceable components, and have to be brought into specialized (and

in some cases, authorized) service centers for repair.

Figure 24-3 Examples of the big two smartphone OSs: Android (left), iOS

(right)

Tablets

Tablets are very similar to smartphones; they run the same OSs and apps, and

use the same multi-touch screens. From a tech’s perspective, they are like

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