• Consider the implications of mobile devices in the worldwide digital revolution • Describe what mobile/tablet devices can be used for • Discuss mobile device hardware • Discuss mobile device operating system
The office is now at your fingertips, at any time and from anywhere. Social media has reconnected friends, family, and classmates by making communication easier and more interactive through multimedia. E-mail and text messages and video clips are everywhere.
quality of life, our quality of health, the way we interact socially, the environment, schools and education, the retail marketplace, styles of employment and work, and the organizational patterns that drive business and economies.
Applications of Mobile/Tablet Devices (continued) • Retail - Retailers can “push” tailored messages about store specials and sales to shoppers (marketing)
• It is the combination of hardware, operating system,
and system programming features that differentiates the many brands of tablets and smartphones available in the marketplace. • Mobile devices may have as many as four radios on board. • Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) are the communication protocols that cellphones talk to cell networks • A Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card can be seamlessly swapped among handsets, bringing your phone books, contact lists, and schedulers to a new phone without rekeying or having to make a trip to the provider.
govern this movement of information on the radio connection between handset and tower. • LTE (Long-Term Evolution) and WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) are competing 4G technologies.
developing methods to deal with the difficulty of programming for the many screen sizes in the mobile and desktop worlds. Typically, the advice is to consider the smallest screen first