Ch10 BB Flashcards
What are three overarching characteristics of mobile devices that make working with them unique? Pg 458
Field servicing, input, and secondary storage
What is field servicing? Pg 458
Rather than the user going to the technician for repairing/replacing parts of a mobile device, the technician goes to the user.
What is the main setback of increasingly smaller and smaller devices in terms of input? Pg 459
It becomes harder and harder to have input methods onboard the device.
What is multi-touch and why is it useful? Pg 459
Refers to a touch screen that has the ability to detect more than one contact point which allows for more gesture configurations that can serve as device input.
What is TouchFLO(HTC Sense)? Pg 460
Interface that the user perceives as multiple screens, each of which is accessible by an intuitive finger gesture on the screen to spin around to a subsequent page.
