July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
14h 19m
English
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46 Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing
leverage the surrounding wireless environment as much as possible to
provide a new dimension of applications for convenient information
access, personal and group communication, and human-machine
and human-environment interactions.
Microsoft’s use of another term, “Smartphone,” represents some-
thing totally different from a smart phone (even if the only difference
is the space between the two words). Smartphone is Microsoft’s
software platform for cell phones.
2.4.2 The Convergence of Cell Phones and Mobile Entertainment Devices
Mobile entertainment devices refer to handheld audio, video, and
graphics entertainment systems such as music players, video play-
ers, handheld televisions, and gaming devices. ...