Consumer shopping based on mobile computing

Real-world shopping activity seems to make way to electronic commerce. But there´re still lots of people need or like this traditional shopping. With the popularity of the mobile computing technology, mobile devices get rapid development. In this paper, we hope to design a kind of outstanding mobile device. This device is designed specially for the shopping functions. The whole shopping process is divided into three steps: pre-shopping step, ongoing-shopping step and post-shopping step. Different shopping steps need different mobile computing. The device is aimed to include every necessary functions consumer need when they buy merchandise. For pre-shopping step, what to buy and where to buy problems will be solved with corresponding functions modules. Product information, price comparison and expert suggestion services could be contained in ongoing-shopping module of the device. The post-shopping module is designed for the payment processing, logistics suggestion and service/maintenance information management.