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OPERATING SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE FOR MOBILE TV AND MULTIMEDIA PHONES
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
—Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States
12.1 INTRODUCTION—SOFTWARE STRUCTURE ON MOBILE PHONES
Mobile phones have been with us for well over 2 decades. Do we need to look at the operating systems and software structure just because we are moving toward multimedia and mobile TV type applications? What makes these phones different and the software structure important? We will attempt to piece together this information in this chapter.
As we know, operating systems (OSs) were initially designed for the management of the “machine,” i.e., to handle all input/output, memory, ...
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