What’s out there I NTRODUCTION TO M OBILE D EVICES

M ANY P LATFORMS A VAILABLE  BlackBerry  iPhone  PocketPC  Windows Mobile  Palm OS  Linux  Symbian  J2ME

B LACK B ERRY  BlackBerry App World  Mobile Development 101 Mobile Development 101

I P HONE  Very popular platform  Over 21 Million users

W INDOWS M OBILE  Scaled down version of Windows  14% market share  Currently at Version 6.5  Can be slow

P ALM OS  One of the first – started in 1996  Branched and evolved…  webOS is the successor to Palm OS  Based on Linux  Developed for the Palm Pre  Palm Pre has wireless charging

L INUX  Google’s Android OS  Based on Linux  Somewhat slower adoption  Not as much sizzle – important in mobile devices

S YMBIAN  Proprietary OS  The leading OS in the “smart mobile device” market  46.6% Market share  Previously owned by Nokia

J2ME  Java Micro Edition  A platform rather than an OS  A tiny Java Virtual Machine and Java API’s for developing applications for mobile devices

O UR F OCUS  Focusing on the iPhone  Most active Application development

C ONSTRAINTS  Processing power  Graphics  Battery Life  Persistence  Networking  Satisfying Users

C ONSIDERATIONS  A lot of time spent developing for a specific device.  Why not just have a mobile web version of the application – works with anything.  You could pass GPS information to the web app  Web service  Lots of considerations  What about bigger games? Need an app.