Transcript Introduction to Mobile Devices

I NTRODUCTION TO M OBILE
D EVICES
M ANY P LATFORMS AVAILABLE
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BlackBerry
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iPhone
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PocketPC
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Windows Mobile
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Palm OS
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Linux
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Symbian
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J2ME
B LACK B ERRY
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BlackBerry App World
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Mobile Development 101
I P HONE
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Very popular platform
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Over 21 Million users
W INDOWS M OBILE
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Scaled down version of Windows
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14% market share
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Currently at Version 6.5
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Can be slow
PALM OS
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One of the first – started in 1996
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Branched and evolved…
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webOS is the successor to Palm OS
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Based on Linux
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Developed for the Palm Pre
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Palm Pre has wireless charging
L INUX
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Google’s Android OS
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Based on Linux
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Somewhat slower adoption
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Not as much sizzle – important in mobile devices
S YMBIAN
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Proprietary OS
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The leading OS in the “smart mobile device” market
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46.6% Market share
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Previously owned by Nokia
J2ME
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Java Micro Edition
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A platform rather than an OS
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A tiny Java Virtual Machine and Java API’s for
developing applications for mobile devices
O UR F OCUS
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Focusing on the iPhone
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Most active Application development
C ONSTRAINTS
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Processing power
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Graphics
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Battery Life
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Persistence
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Networking
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Satisfying Users
C ONSIDERATIONS
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A lot of time spent developing for a specific device.
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Why not just have a mobile web version of the
application – works with anything.
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You could pass GPS information to the web app
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Web service
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Lots of considerations
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What about bigger games? Need an app.