Have PDA, Will Travel
In order to host applications, smart devices require characteristics that include being small and portable, having a decent battery life, displaying information with richness and quality, having memory to hold plenty of information and applications, and the ability to access remote data. This chapter will explore issues associated with the last item in that list. The previous chapter looked at the first essential architectural concept of mobile applications, which is working with data locally. Although this is important, the idea of using mobile applications for business would not exist without the ability to access data that exists on other systems or devices.
Everyone has opened up his or her first PDA like it was Christmas ...
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