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Question 1

What are some examples of mobile devices?pg457-458

Answer 1

Tablets, Smartphones, Phablets, e-Readers, GPS, Smart cameras, Wearable technology.pg 457-458

Question 2

What are the three overarching characteristics of mobile devices?pg458

Answer 2

Field servicing, input, and secondary storage.pg.458

Question 3

What is multi-touch?pg459

Answer 3

Screens are developing the ability to detect more than one contact point. ex. Apple devices. They own the patents they bought it from Fingerworks.pg459

Question 4

What is TouchFLO and who created it.pg460

Answer 4

Touch FLO is not a multi-touch screen. It is a multiple screen interface perceived by users. HTC. pg.460

Question 5

Apple’s mobile devices employ gestures of TouchFLO, combining that and multi-touch. T or F pg460

Answer 5

True.pg460

Question 6

What technology made the user interface much smoother and more intuitive.pg460

Answer 6

Capacitive touchscreen technology.pg460

Question 7

Mobile devices use what type of storage device and why?pg460

Answer 7

SSDs solid-state drives. No moving parts and they run cooler and resists higher temperature extremes, and require less power to run their counterparts.pg460

Question 8

What is the defining characteristic of a tablet computer and what are the two varieties?pg462

Answer 8

Touchscreen. 1.Resistive responds to pressure, hightly accurate. 2. Capacitive less accurate but more responsive; respond to change in electric current.pg.463

Question 9

What is the most popular computer device in the world today? pg463

Answer 9

Smartphone. Any mobile phone with its own processor and operating system can be considered to be one.pg463

Question 10

What was the very first smart phone?pg464

Answer 10

IBM Simon Personal Communicator released by BellSouth in 1994.pg464

Question 11

Who was the first country to see wide spread smartphone adoption.pg465

Answer 11

Japan in 1999 pg.465

Question 12

What was the defining year of the smartphone and who defined it.pg466

Answer 12

2007, Apple’s iPhone.pg466 running the iOS operating system.pg.466

Question 13

In terms of current usage what is the order of market share systems. ex. windows,apple,Android.pg.467

Answer 13

1st is Android. 2nd. Apple. 3rd Windows-based phones.pg.467

Question 14

Who are the biggest manufacturers of Android smartphones.pg467

Answer 14

Samsung, HTC,LG,Sony,Motorola.pg467