Mobile device

Mobile devices and mobile devices are devices that are portable and thus suitable for mobile use due to their size and weight without major physical effort. Terminals are to be understood here only in its information technology and communication technology definition.

Subdivision

  • In common usage (eg, smartphones), tablet computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs) are grouped under mobile devices mobile phones. Such mobile devices are characterized by the ubiquitous availability of PIM data and fixed computing devices usable applications as well as the possibility to use the radio, cellular (GSM, GPRS, UMTS, EDGE ) and other telecommunication services.
  • Notebooks and subnotebooks can in a broader sense also the group of mobile devices are assigned, and are then combined with the smart phones and assistants under the term mobile computing - for this group Wi-Fi or Wi -Fi capability is typical.
  • Moreover, the term Walk and Discman, MP3 players, pocket TV ( portable TVs ), e- book readers and other portable output devices for electronic media covers.
  • The mobile devices are also one of GPS devices and other portable interface devices of satellite communications.

In addition to the common prepared for the mass market mobile devices numerous solutions that have been created for special applications exist.

Demarcation

Mobile devices are thus the handheld (, handsets ' ) to the palmtops (, palm-sized ' devices), and the Pocket Computer (, pocket computer ') to briefcase major mobile computer. But not to the wireless devices you count devices that have always been - prior to the development of electronic devices - were hand-held devices, ie cameras, and even classic video cameras, or the watch and calculator that are not communications equipment in the actual sense.

On the other hand mitimplementiert functions from adjacent segments with each new mobile device Genereration - a modern smartphone has about a full-fledged operating system with many application programs of a desktop computer, QWERTY keyboard, mobile internet, GPS capabilities, photo or video camera, and extra second video camera for video calling, a full-fledged MP3 player, television, and more. The individual classes of devices can be as little more systematically separate and relate more to the usual sizes and formats of the equipment enclosure and the controls.

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