1. Cell Phone Technology Cell Phone Technology

2. ► Cell technology is changing fast  Phones  Tablets  Computers

4. ► Providers are many and changing  Some are new  Some are being consolidated

5. ► Common Offerings  Individual plans  Single Line  Family plan  Up to 5 lines  Business Plans  No Contract Plan

6.  Voice ► Sometimes plans include free calls to other phones from the same provider ► There are also “family & favorites” plans  Messaging or Text ► Usually sold by the message or unlimited ► Includes text, picture, video and instant messages.  Data (Web & Email) ► Includes Web, email and any other Internet use.

7. ► Voice  Sold by the minute, or in packages, or unlimited ► Messaging  20¢ per text or packages from $5.00/month ► Data (Web & Email)  Pay per MB or monthly rate packages.  Data Packages

8. ► Data  Usually sold by the Megabyte/Gigabyte or unlimited ► Hot spot WIFI usually free  Recent Changes: ► AT&T eliminated unlimited new offerings, measured at $15.00 for 200 Megabytes/month and $25.00 for 2 Gigabytes/month ► Verizon offering both measured service 150 Megabytes/month for $15.00/month and $29.99/month for unlimited ► TMobile offering measured for $10.00 a month for 200Megabytes/month or $30.00/month for unlimited

9. Device Type Monthly Access Per Line Data Allowance Rate After Allowance Email Service Feature Phones — Pay per use $1.99 per MB $5 $5 Feature Phones with data requirement $10 75 MB $10 per 75 MB Included Feature Phones, 3G & 4G Smartphones (email and web for BlackBerry/Smartphone) $29.99Unlimited—Included Data package of $29.99 or higher required for 3G and 4G Smartphones VERIZON OFFERINGS

10. Speeds Speeds ► 3G cellular technology brings wireless broadband data services to mobile phones. Speeds from 144Kbps (roughly three times faster than a 56K dial-up modem connection) to 2.4Mbps (close to cable- modem speed) ► 4G faster and coming

12. Operating Systems ► I Phone ► I Phone APPLE ► Android Google ► Blackberry RIM ► Windows Microsoft

13. Apps ► Small Programs that can run on a Smartphone ► Written for an Operating System ► Can use GPS ► TaskKiller

14. Future ► Multi CPU Phone - quad processors are coming ► Better batteries ► Better screens ► Faster data transfer ► Better software

15. Things to Consider ► Design ► Features ► Bluetooth™ ► Cameras Still and Video ► MP3/MP4 players ► GPS ► Email/Browser ► APPS ► Expandable Memory ► Java Games ► Mobile TV ► Texting ► Ringtones ► Mobile Roaming ► SIM Card ► Speakerphone ► Battery Life