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Mobile Computing

What’s it mean to me?

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There are three parts to the discussion

• Global impact of mobile• The mobile internet• You and your mobile

http://www.janchipchase.com/20071216_Urumqi_0110.html http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2007/09/open-shut-case.html http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2008/06/mobile-phone-ai.html

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Who has a mobile phone?

• Who would rather give up their Facebook/ Bebo, etc privileges than lose their mobile?

• How do you use your mobile?

• Who has installed applications? Which ones?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcopako/2873288743/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/darla/1280989819/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/3190769455/

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What do other people do with their mobiles?

• Parents? Friends? Other people?

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A few applications you may not have thought about

http://www.mi-pay.com/mipay_services/http://layar.com/7-layar-20-videos/ http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts/remoterecord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code http://www.fring.com/default.asp http://www.fanta.eu/ http://signaltheorist.com/?p=255

Banking

Sky+ recordingAugmented reality

Skpe, IM, etcBarcode reader

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Augmented Reality overlays the camera view

http://m.fanta.eu

Videos at: http://signaltheorist.com/?p=255

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What’s the most important application to people?

Discuss in pairs for a few minutes

?Gotta have

it doh…

Maybe it’s something the mobile provides

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Does your answer depend upon how many mobiles there are?

• How many mobiles are there?

• How many people in the world?

?Where do

people use

it?

Hmm, how

many use it?

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6.6bn people and 3.4bn handsets

1.15bn handsets sold a year

http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/884

(Blackberry)

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Mobile coverage around the world

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/connect/gblview/index.html

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What’s most important application?

Pairs reconsider previous results and compare with another team and gather results

?Obvious now you

say it

Cool, not thought of that

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Most important is one that connects most people

Connectivity – phone calls/sms

?But SMS

is so simple

And you can talk

on it too…

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But what about the money?

• What happens if we follow the money in mobiles? Is it profitable?

• What do people think? Is this a big business?

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Movies, Games and Music

• global movie industry $28.1bn in 2008.

• Video game sales $32bn in 2008

• DVD and Blue-Ray sales $29bn in 2008.

• music sales $18.42bn in 2008.

• That's $108bn in total for music, film, DVD and games.

Will mobile be more or less than this number?Will mobile be more or less than this number?

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Mobile is Big, Really, REALLY BIG

• All of the SMS and MMS messages sent is $130bn. Web pages browsed, and songs downloaded, adds another $70bn.

• handsets sold ($150bn) and the network infrastructure ($50bn), and phone calls are $600bn.

mobile is worth about $1,000bn (a trillion)mobile is worth about $1,000bn (a trillion)

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Scavenger hunt time

• Form teams of three or four per mobile with camera and mms settings sorted.

• Take 10 minutes to ‘find’ items and post to Flickr

• Create mms with ‘title’ as subject and ‘description’ as body send it to….

http://www.configuremyphone.com/

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Compare team results

Look at the Flickr page to see the results

http://www.flickr.com/photos/csdabdn

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How did we get the photos to Flickr?

http://www.openmobilealliance.org/Technical/release_program/docs/MMS/V1_3-20080128-C/OMA-AD-MMS-V1_3-20080128-C.pd f

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The transparent network is useful

• We can do many things with the network

• SMS -> twitter/etc

• Once in the network we can do anything with the message

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Even you can get involved

• Use the apps on your mobile

• Record and capture images, words, etc

• Install more apps

• Share your work, inspiration

• Write your own app

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Create a mobile app means thinking about its goals

• Mobile web app (widget) or installed app?

• What do you need to do?

?Some use, or all use?To

install or not

install…

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Will you get rich from your application?

Probably notProbably not

There are millions of apps out there, 50,000 for iPhones

The problem is getting your app to people, and them paying you

This should not stop you from trying thoughThis should not stop you from trying though

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More information here:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc228/teaching/mobile.shtml

Basic concepts laid out with links as discussed already today