Friday, October 23, 2009

Limitations of Mobile Devices

The most advance mobile computing devices also have some limitations.

The major limitations are low bandwidth, loss of connectivity with the networks, lack of security, small display, low durable battery and less memory. In addition to all these, mobile devices do not have a standard keyboard that causes problem for the end user to enter information relative to a PC.

Lack of security, this is somewhat a serious issue to be considered with the mobile devices because on network any two unidentified people can contact each other. Moreover, providing security to information passed to wireless networks is also a difficult task. One should be very careful when their device is connected to a wireless network because unauthenticated information may cause damage to the system.

The display size of the mobile devices is very small which causes problems in loading the web pages and graphics. One has to struggle a little to grasp the information on the screen of the mobile device.

Another major problem that prevents us from using the mobile computing devices is its low durable battery. Many of the mobile devices can continuously run only from 4 to 5 hours, so if we are out of battery once, we have to replace the battery or else charge the battery.

Less memory is also one of the limitations, this problem occurs because of the portable size of the device. As the device is so small it cannot accommodate larger capacity hard drives.

Though there are limitations in mobile devices, people have accepted the technology with open arms.

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