Abstract: This article discusses future trends in the design of Smartphones and other consumer products. The discussion focuses onthe importance of integration, which saves valuable PCB space and drives down costs.
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1.Introduction to the Series 60 Platform
2.Overview of the Series 60 Platform
3.Design Patterns for Application Development
4.Software Development on the Series 60
Platform
5.Platform Architecture
6.User-centered Design for Series 60
Applications
7.Testing Software
8.Application Framework
9.Standard Panes and Application Windows
10.Lists and List Types
11.Other User Interface Components
12.View Architecture
13.Audio
14.Customizing the Series 60 Platform
15.Communications Architecture
16.Communications Application Programming
Interface
17.Messaging
18.Connectivity
19.Programming in Java for Smartphones
20.Midlet User Interface Framework
The telecommunications industry has seen a rapid boost within the last decade. New realities
and visions of functionalities in various telecommunications networks have brought forward the
concept of next-generation networks (NGNs). The competitions among operators for support-
ing various services, lowering of the cost of having mobile and cellular phones and Smartphones,
increasing demand for general mobility, explosion of digital traffic, and advent of convergence
network technologies added more dynamism in the idea of NGNs. In fact, facilitating con-
vergence of networks and convergence of various types of services is a significant objective of
NGN
The telecommunications industry is undoubtedly in a period of radical change with
the advent of mobile broadband radio access and the rapid convergence of Internet
and mobile services. Some of these changes have been enabled by a fundamental
shift in the underlying technologies; mobile networks are now increasingly based
on a pure Internet Protocol (IP) network architecture. Since the first edition of this
book was published in 2009, a multitude of connected devices from eBook readers
to Smartphones and even Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technologies have all started
to benefit from mobile broadband. The sea change over the last few years is only the
beginning of a wave of new services that will fundamentally change our economy, our
society, and even our environment. The evolution towards mobile broadband is one of
the core underlying parts of this revolution and is the focus of this book.
Smartphones have become a key element in providing greater user access to the
mobile Internet. Many complex applications which used to be limited to PCs, have
been developed and operated on Smartphones. These applications extend the
functionalities of Smartphones, making them more convenient for users to be
connected. However, they also greatly increase the power consumption of
Smartphones, making users frustrated with long delays in Web browsing.
The telecommunications industry has seen a rapid boost within the last decade. New realities
and visions of functionalities in various telecommunications networks have brought forward the
concept of next-generation networks (NGNs). The competitions among operators for support-
ing various services, lowering of the cost of having mobile and cellular phones and Smartphones,
increasing demand for general mobility, explosion of digital traffic, and advent of convergence
network technologies added more dynamism in the idea of NGNs. In fact, facilitating con-
vergence of networks and convergence of various types of services is a significant objective of
NGNs.
Radio frequency spectrum is a scarce and critical natural resource that is utilized for
many services including surveillance, navigation, communication, and broadcast-
ing. Recent years have seen tremendous growth in the use of spectrum especially by
commercial cellular operators. Ubiquitous use of Smartphones and tablets is one
of the reasons behind an all-time high utilization of spectrum. As a result, cellular
operators are experiencing a shortage of radio spectrum to meet bandwidth
demands of users. On the other hand, spectrum measurements have shown that
much spectrum not held by cellular operators is underutilized even in dense urban
areas. This has motivated shared access to spectrum by secondary systems with no
or minimal impact on incumbent systems. Spectrum sharing is a promising
approach to solve the problem of spectrum congestion as it allows cellular operators
access to more spectrum in order to satisfy the ever-growing bandwidth demands of
commercial users.
Nowadays sensors are part of everyday life in a wide variety of fields: scientific
applications, medical instrumentation, industrial field, ...and, last but not least,
popular mass production and low-cost goods, like Smartphones and other mobile
devices. Markets and business behind the field of sensors are quite impressive.
A common trend for consumer applications is miniaturization which requires, on
one side, a lot of research, development efforts, and resources but, on the other
hand, allows costs and final application size reduction. In this scenario scientific
community and industries are very active to drive innovation.