MOBILE APPLICATION

Mobile Application

Mobile Application

While wireless data has always tempted us with a tantalizing vision of always-connected wireless computing, adoption has been slower than for voice services. In the past several years, although, adoption has accelerated, and thanks to a number of key developments. Networks themselves are much more capable, consigning higher throughputs at smaller cost. Awareness of data capabilities has increased, especially through the pervasive success of SMS, wireless email, downloadable ringbones, and downloadable games. Widespread availability of services has also been important. The features discovered in cellular telephones are expanding at a rapid rate, and today encompass large hue displays, graphics viewers, still cameras, video cameras, MP3 players, instant messaging clients, email clients, downloadable executable content capability, and browsers supporting multiple formats. All of these capabilities consume data. Meanwhile, smart phones, with their emphasis of a wealthy computing natural environment on the telephone, represent the convergence of 1) the personal digital assistant; 2) a completely capable wireless computer; and 3) a telephone in a apparatus that is only slightly larger than the average cellular telephone. Many users would favour to carry one apparatus that does it all.

Mobile Commerce, or m-Commerce, is about the explosion of applications and services that are evolving accessible from Internet-enabled wireless devices. It involves new technologies, services and business models. It is rather distinct from traditional e-Commerce. Mobile phones impose very distinct constraints than desktop computers. But they also open the doorway to a slew of new applications and services. They pursue you while you proceed, making it possible to gaze for a nearby restaurant, stay in feel with colleagues, or pay for items at a store.

As the Internet finds its way into our purses or shirt pockets, the devices we use to access it are evolving more personal too. Already today, wireless phones understand the telephone numbers of our friends and colleagues. They are starting to track our location. Tomorrow, they will replace our wallets and borrowing cards. One day, they may very well turn into smart assistants capable of anticipating many of our wishes and needs, such as automatically arranging for taxis to arrive and choose us up after business meetings or supplying us with summaries of relevant news and messages left by colleagues. But, for all these changes to happen, key issues of interoperability, usability, security, and privacy still require to be addressed. Mobile media is a rapidly changing field. New technologies, such as WiMax, act to accelerate innovation in wireless commerce. Early pioneers in wireless advertising encompass Vodafone, Orange, and SK Telecom.

 

Mobile App

These days it's rare to find a world broad web employee who doesn't depend on a smartphone and the plethora of wireless apps to stay creative while on the road. Whether you use an iPhone, a Palm Pre, a BlackBerry, a Nexus One or some other telephone, we cover the most important and useful apps.

Fig. 1. Mobile application distribution model

 

Relation

GPRS to HSDPA and after offers an increasing range of capabilities, supporting ever more demanding ...