What's the difference between a smart phone and an iphone?

What's the difference between a smart phone and an iphone?

Smartphone is smartphone but iphone is eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiphone

All iPhones are smart phones, but not all smart phones are iPhones.
There's no clear definition of a smart phone. But if you buy a smartphone, you get better features than you would get in a feature phone like better camera, better gaming and a better internet browsing experience. However, there are many other smart phones in the market, three being the most well known and reputed- Android, IOS and Windows Phone. These three are platforms and you can find various brands making phones using these platforms.
All the three have their own perks, but IOS and windows phones offer a better and more refined experience than android I guess. Where android needs heavier processing power, windows phones and apple device do not. Hope this helps!

An iPhone is a type of smartphone, so there really isn't any "difference". There are several types of smartphones out there including the Apple iPhone, Samsung smartphones, Windows smartphones, Android Smartphones, Blackberry smartphones.

A Smartphone is one that has other computer or general use features and can run other applications, as well as just working as a phone.

eg. Web browsing, email, games, PDA type functions etc.

Iphones are just one type of smartphones.

Any phone running Android also comes in to this category, as do most Blackberrys and some Symbian phones.

Apple makes the hardware and software (iOS)- If you are talking about a phone like the android, or any Android phone for that matter, is made by 3 companies - Software company (Google) Hardware Company.

BIG difference. First the iPhone is made by Apple company. Apple makes the hardware and software(iOS)- If you are talking about a phone like the android, or any Android phone for that matter, is made by 3 companies - Software company (Google) Hardware Company (HTC, Samsung, Motorola, LG etc.) and a chip maker (Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Samsung etc.) Second- The operating system- on Android phones, the OS is Android, and on iPhone it's iOS. The two OS are much different. Android can be ran with many skins and different ways to customize the device made by the hardware manufacturer. Also some Android "Super Phones" come with crazy specs like dual core 1.2 GHZ processors and 4.5 inch screens, 4G, and even Stereoscopic (Glasses Free) 3D But with the iPhone it's standard for all phones, and there's no broad choices like Android, iPhone there's a 1GHZ A4 Chip made by Apple, Standard iPhone 3.5" Screen and more. The build quality with iPhone is awesome. With android- there's good and bad. To see android phones visit www.bigbuy.in

Think of it like this:
Smart phones are vacuum cleaners, but iPhones are dysons. They are a smart phone but are overpriced (like dysons)

IPhone is the flagship phone developed and manufactured solely by Apple. The device operates on Apple's iOS operating system and is currently in its 5th generation. Smartphones are any mobile phones that are similar to a mini computer. Smartphones offer a variety of features that allows advanced computing capability and connectivity.