Memo CordovaSWILA 2011

Mobile Tech:

Trends &

Tools

What does it mean to you?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-21/amazon-com-is-said-to-exceed-kindle-sales-estimates-by-60-shares-advance.html

Amazon: 5 million Kindles

Apple: 7.46 million

iPads

http://www.onlineitdegree.com/cell-phone-usage

www.ce.org/PDF/2K10_5tech_web.pdf

Smartphone manufacturers shipped 100.9 million devices in the fourth quarter of 2010PC manufacturers shipped 92.1 million units.

Smartphones just outsold PCs for the first time ever.

International Data CorporationIDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, January 27, 2011.

Mozilla Seabird

Pause for awesome

Augmented Reality

Pause for awesome

2D codes

Applications

http://guides.boisestate.edu/mlearning

http://bit.ly/eLTbYH

http://guides.boisestate.edu/mlearning

http://bit.ly/eLTbYH

Worldwide mobile downloads forecast 2011: 17.7 billion

By the end of 2014: 185 billion

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1529214

The Claw: wild disagreement among the ratings usually means there's something interesting going on.

Comments: sort by most recent. Skim the reviews most relevant to the app's current state.

App description: typos/incoherent description of what the app does = the same kind of quality in the app itself.

http://oreil.ly/dX8QuM

MOBILE FUTURES

To the cloud!

OS variety

Apps 4 Plaif

Augmented Reality

Hardware?

The web is your office

Your presence, multiplied

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/smartphones-to-overtake-feature-phones-in-u-s-by-2011/

We are just at the beginning of a new wireless era where smartphones will become the standard device consumers will use to connect to  friends, the internet and the world at large.

- Synthetic Serendipity- Ubiquitous computing- SIXth Sense- Everyware experiences

“Computing power will expand beyond the tight confines of dedicated machines and permeate the wider world.”

- Mark Weiser

mobile

Questions?

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