TRACEY CASSELLS
,Smartphones
The Smartphone is one of the most active
technologies under continual development of our
modern age:
Roughly 250 000 active patents impact smart phones, or
1/6 of patents overall (not just technology sector) –
techdirt.com
It is a very profitable business, with smartphone and
tablet sales already overtaking PCs and Laptops
,Smartphones
The pace of development continues to accelerate
Flexible displays.
Google Glass ( AR devices).
Smaller, longer-lasting batteries.
We'll have a separate lecture about this later.
, Smartphones
Never before has so much functionality been made
available to developers in one device.
Design your apps with the following in mind:
Smartphone operating systems are increasingly becoming
embedded in everything.
But they still have a limited memory, CPU, and storage.
They also have a very limited power source (battery)
Smartphones are extremely personal devices and can
contain people's whole lives, work details, security
access, personal photo's, wallets.