An introduction to smartphones and the interesting world of Mobile Apps Indians prefer Android-running smartphones: Nielsen A recent Nielsen report has highlighted that the use of smartphones in India is becoming the primary mode for the majority of the countrys 900 million mobile phone subscribers to stay connected. Mobile applications or mobile apps are applications developed for small handheld devices, such as mobile phones, smartphones, Tablets and so on. Mobile apps can come loaded on the handheld device as well as can be downloaded by users from app stores or the Internet. Smartphones will increasingly replace feature phones in stores. Nearly everyone will be able to use smartphone apps, not just as of now business people, social networkers and gamers. Smartphones are small computers which are becoming more and more powerful. They will be suitable for an increasing number of tasks which have previously been restricted to laptops or desktops. Today smartphone apps are used by companies to promote their brand or product, or to provide access to their existing products. In the future we will see a lot more use-cases, e.g. new products enabled by apps, mobile health, mobile selling, or apps which help to improve working efficiency within a company. For the foreseeable future, Smartphones will always depend on the app stores. If you have a smartphone or advanced feature phone you will have easy and convenient access to the world of apps.