Let’s be honest. Your smart phone is an extension of yourself. In the past, leaving your mobile phone at home was not a big deal. But now, if you were halfway to work and you left your smartphone at home, you would risk being late just to go back and retrieve it. Much of your life is on your smart phone. Smart mobile phones let you go anywhere without worrying about missing anything. An important email from a contact or your boss could be received and read anytime and anywhere. Your social and professional life can now mix and intermingle. Even while on a much needed vacation, you can still attend to pressing work concerns or attend meetings via video conferencing. In the professional world texting has taken a backseat to emails because of smartphones. Text message lengths are limited and can only be received by another phone. Emails sent via smart phones can be sent not only to another phone but to a computer as well. Lengthy conversations free of charge, be it local or international can be had. Large files can be sent.

To start off, smartphones like your computers are equipped with Web, email and Personal Data Assistant or PDA capabilities. They are the answer to a working person’s busy schedule. If you have a lot on your plate, great phones like this help keep us organized and be on top of things.

The most important perk smart phones have are the third-party applications or more commonly known as apps. Apps on your smart phones let you do your work without the need for regular computers. The busy professional can now create, edit, save, share and email documents, presentations and spreadsheets. Aside from these powerful work capabilities that smart phones give you, you can also work on them in real time with your colleague, location notwithstanding, and see the changes each of you makes. Certain apps in smart phones allow you to leave individual messages for each of your team members making it easier for you to follow threads and making the work more organized. Add-ons such as burn down charts are also available to help you keep track of time and work. For designers, image-tweaking apps can be downloaded straight to your smart mobile phone. During crunch time, smart mobile phones kick in with their presentation tool applications. Not only do they allow you to create, they also let you import existing presentations into it and edit them as well. Pictures and videos can also be taken with your smart mobile phones. Not only that, smartphones let you share, edit and send them as well.

The smart professional would do well to get a smart phone. Not only do smart phones function like traditional computers and are very handy, smart phones provide us with freedom in more ways than one. With mobile access to the Web and with the right applications installed, there would be no reason at all not to get one if you want to get ahead of your busy schedule.