Feature vs. the Smart-phone. There is no straight answer; the lines are blurring too fast. At the end, your definition will be different from mine. Nevertheless, this is how I’m defining it (to be included in an upcoming article):

Both Feature and Smart-phones support voice and data capabilities, including multimedia audio and video, camera, gaming, high-speed networks, GPS and advanced user interfaces. Both are programmable. And both are updatable while on the field. While the line that separates Feature vs. Smart phones is become thinner over time, Smart-phones are considered more advanced and are seen more like a portable Internet computer with voice capabilities, as opposed to the Feature phone which is seen as a programmable cell-phone device with data capabilities. Compared against Smart-phones, the Feature phone is typically Java or BREW-based, while the Smart-phone has a more advanced operating system and corresponding development environments.

I might rephrase the above some, but the described main idea should remain…

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