Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing

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issues in this domain have yet to be addressed. To this end, the

vision of next-generation mobile computing essentially encompasses

cutting-edge research and development in a number of directions.

Some of these efforts have demonstrated dramatic achievements and

that are being commercialized by industry practitioners. The last sec-

tion of this chapter presents a summary of these research directions,

as well as some emerging mobile wireless applications that utilize

smart phones to operate in a variety of circumstances. The empha-

sis here is on the need and motivation of the technological trend,

rather than the technical details of these research issues, which are

thoroughly discussed in the next chapter. The remaining ...