Mobile Technology

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Mobile Technology By Devin Satterthwaite
November 27, 2007
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Apple introduced the mobile phone as a Web device
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But mobile data speeds are still too slow
PC broadband data speed
1 MBPS
Mobile (2G) data speed
.200 MBPS
Mobile data speed is 2/10 or slower than PC
broadband data speeds
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Mobile browsers complexity prevents usage
Consumers cant find it

• It often takes 5-click for consumers to access
  their mobile browser
• Typing long URLs on small keypad small screen
  is too hard for most consumers
• Slow connection speed make consumers click
  wait too long for page re-fresh

URLs are complex
Too Slow
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AJAX resolves slow data speed on the PC
Asynchronous
Enables a fluid application look feel through
continuous client - server interaction
JAavaScript
The webs industrys standard browser language
for application logic
XML
The webs industrys standard language for data
manipulation
Google leveraged AJAX programming for its famous
Google Maps application
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Traditional vs. AJAX based web connections
Traditional browser
World Wide Web Server
Browser user interface
Web page is refreshed with each request
Ajax enabled browser
Web page is updated in the background independent
of each request
World Wide Web Server
Browser user interface
AJAX Engine
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Bling offered the 1st AJAX for mobile phones
Blings AJAX Client
World Wide Web Server
Asynchronous (AJAX) communications compensates
for slow mobile data speeds
Blings AJAX Engine
User interaction happens independent of data
requests
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Active-Idle-Screen (AIS) Solution for Carriers
Bling delivers its AJAX based client on the
consumers handset idle-screen (or home screen)
and delivers content in the form of webbased
widgets.
The consumer can now have their favorite Web
content on their home-screen such as their
Facebook or MySpace profile and other popular
content like sports score and movie times.
For more examples of widgets go
to http//widgets.yahoo.com/
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Bling is installed on the idle-screen for
easy access
Idle-screen of phone
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References

• 1.http//developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX
• 2. http//www.blingsoftware.com/
• 3.http//www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archive
  s/000385.php