Mobile Office Applications

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Mobile Office Applications

• Name SPB Rao
• Student Id 59407R
• spbrao_at_tml.hut.fi

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Outline

• Background
• What are MOAs?
• Why are MOAs?
• Platform Application Layer of MITA
• Nokias Series 90 office solutions
• Example implementations of MOAs
• Conclusions

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Background

• Mobile world challenge
• Consumers will use different types of devices to
  access different services through different
  network mediums
• Consumer interaction mode is through messaging,
  browsing and rich call
• Network environments
• Mobile networks, the Internet and Intranet
• Unified service networks
• Identity and Authentication

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What are MOAs ?

• Mobile Office Applications
• Standalone applications for organizing office
  data
• word, excel etc...
• Applications in which remote office data is
  accessed through mobile networks
• calendar, email, contacts etc...

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Why are MOAs ?

• Efficient time utilization while on the move
• Easy sharing of office data irrespective of being
  in different locations
• Anytime anywhere presence
• Provides the luxury of device independent access

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Platform Layer of MITA

• Architecture of symbian OS

Application engines Office, SyncML
Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS
MIDP
JavaPhone
Java (KVM/Personal Java)
Personal Area Networking bluetooth, infrared, USB
Application Framework GUI framework, text and
graphical utilities
Multimedia Images, sounds and graphics
Communications Infrastructure TCP, IPV4V6, HTTP
and WAP stack
Security Cryptography, certificate management
Telephony GSM, GPRS, EDGE, CDMA, CDMA2000
Base User Library, file server, kernel, device
driver
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Symbians application suite

• Communications applications
• email, fax, WAP and web browsing
• Personal Informaiton Management Applications
• contacts, calendar, world map and alarm
• Office applications
• word, spreadsheet, presentation viewer, database
  and spell checker
• Connectivity
• PC connect, server synch., file conversion and
  application installation

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Mobile Internet Business Architecture

• Consumption

Connection
Content
Terminal
Network
Server
Application Layer
Application Layer
Application Layer
Mobile Internet Layer
Mobile Internet Layer
Mobile Internet Layer
Platform Layer
Platform Layer
Platform Layer
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Application Layer of MITA (1/2)

• Browsing, Messaging and Rich call are the three
  main interaction modes in MITA
• Future Mobile Browsing
• Service Discovery and Installation
• New XML content types
• Java
• Semantic Web

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Application Layer of MITA (2/2)

• Messaging
• Message Data Model
• Messaging entities
• Messaging in MITA (email application)
• Rich Call
• Application and display sharing during a call
• File transfer during a call
• Rich call in MITA (Phone application)

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Nokia Series 90 office solutions (1/2)

• Nokia Series 90
• The developer platform for series 90
• Developer platform technologies
• Series 90 devices
• The platform features
• UI, Skin, Desktop, Telephony, messaging, Internet
  Browser, Personal Information Management
• Calendar, To-do, Contacts

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Nokia Series 90 office solutions (2/2)

• Two options for creating resident applications
• Development environment is symbian 7.0
• Using C
• Using Java
• Wireless messaging API, Mobile media API,
  bluetooth API are the set of available SDKs

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Data Synchronization in MOAs(1/3)

• SyncML DS protocol is an open industry
  specification
• It is the common language based on XML
• Supports variety of transport protocols
• It is based on the server/client architecture
• Data Synchronization between different devices,
  regardless of vendor, OS and connection network

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Data Synchronization in MOAs(2/3)

• SyncML server handles
• conflicting entries and updates data

SyncML Server
Remote Server
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Data Synchronization in MOAs(3/3)

• Data synchronization web service enables setting
  of two versions of data
• Synchronization service is content-agnostic
• Example usages calendar, contact book
• Provides benefits such as back up for critical
  data, sharing between different devices

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Support for Content formats(1/2)

• Nokia 9210i
• Video formats RA7, RA8, RV7 and RV8
• Email supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 protocols
• Audio formats WAV, AU, WVE
• Symbian Word
• Microsoft Excel 2/3/4/5/7/97/98/2000 XLS, XLC

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Support for Content formats(2/2)

• Microsoft PowerPoint 3/4/7/97/98/2000 PPT, POT,
  PPS
• Microsoft Word 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/97/98/2000 DOC
• Internet Hyper Text Markup Language HTML, HTM
• Rich Text Format RTF

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Support for Content formats(3/3)

• Nokia 7700
• Video formats realmedia, MPEG-4
• Audio formats MP3, AAC, RealAudio 7 and 8, WAV
  and MIDI
• Email supports SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4
• Browsing HTML, XHTML with Opera browser
• Office applications word, sheet, presentation
  viewer

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File conversion support

• In Nokia 9210i
• Symbian OS ?? Rich Text Format, Text (MS-DOS),
  Text (Windows ANSI), Word 6.0,95, Word 97, Word
  2000
• Symbian OS ?? MS Excel 5.0, 95, MS Excel 97, MS
  Excel 2000

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Example implementations of MOAs (1/2)

• Nokia 9210i
• Office
• the word processor application to write and edit
  text documents
• the spreadsheet application data can be stored in
  a workbook
• Each workbook contains at least one worksheet
• A workbook can also contain chartsheets, which
  are spreadsheet documents containing charts based
  on data from a worksheet
• the presentation viewer application can be used
  to view MS PowerPoint presentations
• it can be forwarded as a fax, by email, or via
  infrared

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Example implementations of MOAs (2/2)

• Nokia 7700
• Office
• the data input is done through the virtual keypad
  or through the touch screen to the word processor
  application
• it includes the PDA functionality such as to-do
  list, calendar and contact lists
• it is equipped with presentation viewer to view
  power point presentations

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Conclusions

• Mobile Office Applications provide true mobility
  for data and efficiency in data management
• Data synchronization is possible through SyncML
  DS
• Series 90 provides means to develop media
  applications as well as office applications
• PDA functionality equipped mobile phones
• Wide range of PC Office application formats are
  supported
• Example implementations Nokia 9210i and Nokia
  7700 mobile phones

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References

• www.nokia.com
• www.forum.nokia.com
• MITA vol1, vol2 and vol3