With a smartphone, you can connect to the Web from virtually anywhere. You can look up information, send emails, take pictures, navigate highways, and play music–often simultaneously.

Of course, even though you might technically be able to write a 20-page white paper on a smartphone, you wouldn’t want to. There are some tasks the smartphone is ideal for, and some it is just cabapable of, and a few that it just can’t do. Know its strengths and weaknesses so you can choose accordingly.