Chapter Summary
The wireless Internet environment consists of mobile devices, the wireless network, gateways, and internetworks that connect the wireless network to the Internet. The power of the wireless Internet is that it enables mobile devices to access Web based and other Internet-based applications. The wireless network environment creates the abstractions that hide the differences between the wireless network and the Internet from applications.
Wireless devices have access to many of the same categories of applications as constantly connected, fixed devices such as personal computers. Additionally, certain applications, such as dynamic location-based services, are particularly popular in the mobile arena.
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