Mobile ComputingBy: Nicole and Marco

What Is Mobile Computing? Devices & Operating Systems Mobile Phones Facebook & Microsoft Process Before/Without MC Process With MC Limitations MC In The Market Video Citations

Table of Contents

Human–computer interaction Mobile communication

◦ Half of current mobile phone users have smartphones Increased capabilities & value by bringing

personal computers to phones Mobile hardware

◦ Mobile devices◦ Device components

Mobile software (“apps”)

What Is Mobile Computing?

“How do you make money with this

rapidly expanding technology?”

Main question in MIT Technology Review

March Business Report

Technologyreview.com

Mobile phones iPads Notebooks Laptops Digital cameras MP3 players GPS Palm Pilots/PDA Anything with internet access

Devices & Operating Systems

2007: average mobile phone wholesale price = $120 & falling◦ Nearly everyone who could afford

one had one Since: prices raised 50%

◦ 2x more mobile handset revenue Apps & services = least $

◦ Mobile advertising earnings = $9 billion

Smartphones outsell PCs Touchscreens outnumber

keyboards

Mobile Phones

January: Facebook reported more mobile access than PC

Ranked #1 app

“23% of the time that Americans spend on mobile apps is devoted to Facebook”

(Technologyreview.com)

Some Facebook Facts

Negligible in mobile computing

2009: on 90% of personal computers

End of 2012: on 23% of devices sold◦ Smartphones, tablets, PCs all

accounted for

Some Microsoft Facts

• Spreading fast• Wireless carriers:• 900 carriers generate $1.3

trillion in revenue each year• 4 times combined revenue

of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel

Mobile Computing In The Market

1. Service call placed2. Inventory loaded on truck3. Paperwork order ticket4. Work order/delivery complete5. Customer signs order ticket6. Paperwork back for data entry7. Customer doesn’t know job statusLimitations: Manual, labor intensive Lost paperwork Lost time

Process Before/Without Mobile Computing

1. Software/websitea) Computerb) Mobile phone in fieldc) Take pics, signatures

2. Virtual truck order3. Store customer information

a) Contact informationb) Past orders

4. View multiple jobs on one screen (dates, status, etc.)

5. Pricing/info look-up on the spot

Helps: Eliminates paperwork, errors Communicate faster Saves personnel, time, delays,

money, inventory, frustration, trees

Process With Mobile Computing

Range & bandwidth Security standards Power consumption Transmission interferences Potential health hazards Human interface with device

Limitations

Video Animation

http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_pic.php?id=145 http://www.technologyreview.com/news/511766/mobile-computing-is-just-getti

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBzagZcLAyQ (shown) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TprvPwxamiQ (info) http://fairfieldohio.org/Fairfield-Ohio/fairfield_ohio_mobile_computing.asp http://smartphonenation.com/2009/10/microsoft-lacking-with-windows-mobile-

6-5/ http://du2012-grp049-04.blogspot.com/ http://rlv.zcache.com/may_contain_awesome_sticker-r46d3f747b41c4720ac0e

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http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/2013/03/ http://www.device-management-software.com/device-management-datasynch

ronization-fleet.html https://aragonresearch.com/mobile/ http://gettingsmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Cloud-Computing-Mobilit

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