Friday, October 2, 2009

Why Mobile Computing?

Mobile computing is all about portable and small computers, which includes PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) like mobile phones, palmtops, laptops etc. In this growing technological world, people are much bound to work on computers and Internet. People are attracted towards mobile devices because of their major features such as-
  • They are wireless devices.
  • Mobile devices are portable that enables easy to carry and work with while you are on the move.
  • Has attractive user interface.
  • Provide many features like wireless LAN to access Internet from any part of the world.
  • Enables voice and typical data transmission
  • Enables one to one contact to have conversations
  • Has audio and video players, games etc.
The latest mobile computing devices are with 3G network supported Internet facility that provides high bandwidth.

Though the mobile computing devices have drawbacks such as low bandwidth, lack of security, loss of connectivity and battery backup issue, people still prefer mobile computing devices to desktops.

The revolution of wireless communications is bringing many fundamental changes to how we compute and communicate.

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