Handheld Computers: Smartphone-Centric Wireless Applications

Author

Zhimeng Xu ; Chen, Zhizhang David ; Hong Nie

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys. & Inf. Eng., Fuzhou Univ., Fuzhou, China

Volume

15

Issue

2

fYear

2014

fDate

March-April 2014

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

44

Abstract

A smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile operating system with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than regular or conventional cell phones have [1]. Driven by increasing demands, they have become more popular in our daily life; there are already more than 1.08 billion smartphones around the world [2] and smartphone sales continues to grow. According to a press release by Gartner Inc., worldwide smartphone sales to end users reached 225 million units in the second quarter of 2013 and, for the first time, smartphones account for the majority of global cellphone shipments [3]. In particular, smartphones with Google´s Android mobile operating system and Apple´s iOS hold more than 93% of the market share [3].

Keywords

Android (operating system); cellular radio; iOS (operating system); smart phones; Apple iOS; Google Android mobile operating system; cell phone; computing capability; connectivity; handheld computers; market share; mobile phone; smartphone sales; smartphone-centric wireless applications; Global Positioning System; Handheld devices; Internet; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Sensors; Smart phones; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1527-3342

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MMM.2013.2296213

Filename

6763311