The mobile future
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2004
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Massey University
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Abstract
The computing power of a third generation mobile telephone is already similar to that of the
first personal computers from the mid 1980s or a third generation minicomputer from the
early 1970s. In addition, wireless connection speeds can be substantially faster than the
fixed-line modem in most home computers. The fact that the mobile telephone is the
standard tool, leisure device or fashion accessory (depending on your perspective) carried
by millions worldwide means that the potential for these devices as a pervasive computing
platform is huge. In the mobile future, service providers will be selling pervasive
applications rather than handsets or bandwidth, and there will be many opportunities to
develop new and innovative mobilised systems. This paper looks what the mobile future
might hold, and explores some of the standards and tools that can be used for mobile
application development. It asks some questions about what sort of applications might be
developed and what kind of distributed architectures might be required to make them work
effectively and efficiently. It concludes with a discussion of an application developed using
the Java Technology for the Wireless Industry APIs that are being adopted by the major
mobile providers.
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Mobile phones, Cellphones, Mobile application development, Wireless communication
Citation
Parsons, D. (2004), The mobile future, Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences, 6, 47-58