Mobile Computers

I’ve always enjoyed mobile computing or the ability to do computing tasks with my mobile devices anywhere. Mobile computing has given me the flexibility to multi-task and maximize my time. Unfortunately, it hasn’t always been a great experience.

Here are some of my good and bad observations in mobile computing.

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Just last week I was talking to a small business person who was in the recycling business, while I was at Starbucks. We talked how he was able to take two hours off in the middle of the day and sit and talk with me. He whipped out his new Apple iPhone IV and he showed me. He has a contract with AT&T and he was able to pick up the phone for only $199. This is a lot less expensive than the original iPhones, and apparently Apple is now competing quite well with the other smart phones which are trying to imitate its revolutionary technologies.

Prior to this he said he took his laptop or notebook around with him so he could run his business. He was considering buying a tablet, but he said; “with all the new business apps that I’ve owned,” it was not until now that he can run his business just fine all from a small device like this. He also explained it had security enhancements to protect his e-mail messages and attachments. And he was able to integrate his phone with his Microsoft exchange business e-mail files, and he had corresponding folders that were also on his laptop which he can pull up from his iPhone.

Apparently, he does not feel at all as if he is encumbered with such a small device. I related to him the fact that I owned one of the first transportable cellular phones back in the day. And even though it cost me $1000 per month to pay for the minutes I used, I too was able to run most of my business from that phone. And back then we didn’t have computers, and fax machines had just been invented. It is amazing how do technology devices free up a small business person so they can do mobile computing on the go. Read the rest of this entry »

Android Phones

The new Android phones are phones that operate on the Linux Kernal mobile operating System. It was developed by Android Inc, and later purchased by Google. This system enables developers to write managed codes in the java language and control the device with Google developed Java libraries.

The Android Phones are the phones of the future because they combine the ultimate advances in mobile phones, video, cameras, PC’s and Navigation systems with multiple applications. The Phase development of the Android Phones started with the first model that had bugs and poor documentation, this was first introduced with the Sake Game-Android Development Phone. Next came the Android SDK it had a debugger, libraries, documentation, and tutorials. The final droid was the Android OS-Donut which added supports like voice search, priced applications and Gmail freeze fixes.

The Android OS system is important in this new system because it allows third party developers to create their own screen widgets. This allows for more applications and more opportunities for the manufacturer. The new Android Phones are being made by Google, Motorola, and HTC, LG, Dell and others breaking into the Smartphone market. The technology that it promises is ground breaking. The Android system acts like a robot, the user tells it what to do and it does it with supposed lightening speed. Read the rest of this entry »