July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
14h 19m
English
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42 Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing
Bluetooth, started to become a necessary communication interface
on PDAs. To date the most frequently included wireless interfaces on
a PDA are Bluetooth and wireless LAN.
The evolution of PDAs has followed a course similar to that of
cell phones in many respects, from monochrome screens to color
screens; from low computing capabilities to state-of-the-art, high-
performance mobile processors; from IrDA to Bluetooth and Wireless
LAN. Because a PDA remains by and large a standalone computing
device without direct network access, it has evolved primarily in
the hardware components and supported functions. On the other
hand, a cell phone relies heavily on the cellular network to operate,
thus the evolution ...