Smartphone

A Smartphone (or Smart Phone, Smart-phone) is a mobile telephone that also incorporates basic functions of a personal computer. This includes gaming, but is not limited to that. Modern powerful smartphones with big screens can easily replace many if not all day-to-day functions of a PC like internet browsing, email and editing documents.

Tomb Raider on Smartphones

The only system that is supported by several Tomb Raider games is Apples Os. (See there for a complete list.) This is mostly due to the pre-defined hardware that is far easier to adapt games to than the highly fragmented Android marked with its dozens of manufacturers and operating system versions.Template:Cite

Hardware

In recent years (since the beginning of the 2010s) smartphones have developed a computing power that previously has not been envisioned. Modern phones feature dual or quad core CPUs and sophisticated GPUs for 2d and 3d accelerated graphics. The majority of these use an ARM architecture, which is power efficient and proven in embedded systems.

Software

When in the beginning of the smartphone era Apples iOs was the dominant mobile Operating System, in recent years Googles Android has gained dominance over the marked. Blackberry devices on the other hand have almost completely been thrown out of marked, while relative newcomer Microsoft with its Windows Phone line of operating system is slowly gaining momentum.