Our Mobile Future

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Our Mobile Future

• How to be where the customer wants to
  beAnywhere, Anytime

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Input Devices

• We can already see that input is changing from
  just mouse and keyboard and we can expect to see
  more in our everyday lives.
• Pen interaction
• Touch
• Finger Writing/ writing recognition with personal
  library
• Voice Recognition

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Visions of the Future

• Working together
• Sharing information
• Convenience
• Efficiency
• For us to meet the challenge as developers we
  will access the latest and greatest technologies
  to bring our society to the next level.

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Developer Challenges

• Beyond the obvious
• We will have to tap into our capability to design
  and program the hardware to the best of its
  ability to create useful and helpful tools.
• Considering
• Battery Life / reliable power sources
• Connections being frequently dropped
• Device size and capability

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Multitasking

• Our customers, our family, neighbors and us
  ourselves will be able to take advantage of
  accepting ink or a voice recognition while in the
  car or moving environment.
• Creating the UI that fits the situation like
  large buttons for touch screen targeting
• Straightforward defaults that demand little
  customer interaction

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Personal Productivity

• Customers want to access their e-mail anywhere
  and at any time.
• They want easy-to-use software that lets them
  build a shopping list while theyre waiting in
  line at the bank.
• They want to see where the traffic bottlenecks
  are before they get on the road, and they want
  the information to plan an alternate route while
  theyre stopped in traffic.
• Their need to access personal productivity tools
  shouldnt
• end when they leave their desk. Your applications
• should assume that your users are mobile., Tara
  Prakriya, Frank Gocinski CODE

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Social Communities

• As social communities become more and more a
• part of life, people will want pervasive access
  to
• their contacts.
• What good is an instant message if you receive it
  three days later?
• And with increased location awareness (such as
  GPS), a users computer should tell them when
  they are near a friend or contact who have signed
  up to let them have that information., Tara
  Prakriya, Frank Gocinski CODE

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Home Automation

• Controlling home automation from mobile or
  networked devices as we do our televisions from a
  remote.
• Warming up our homes before we return from a trip
  remotely.
• Creating more efficient energy use in our homes
  by automating the process, by room, by
  temperature, by time of day.
• By creating time for our busy lives we also save
  in costs.

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Education

• Applications that promote mobile educational
  tools allowing students to travel from the
  classroom to the library to home presents an
  exciting area to help change the world!
• As calculators did in the past, the mobile PC can
  become a tool to help students at all grade
  levels do better in school. Applications that
  help teach handwriting, character-based
  languages, drawing, painting, surgery.
• These are just a few possibilities when a school
  system employs stylus based computers. Distance
  education, accessibility, and collaboration are
  just a few of the pedagogical hurdles that mobile
  PCs can help conquer. You can imagine endless
  scenarios for mobile PCs in education, and the
  technology is now available., Tara Prakriya,
  Frank Gocinski CODE

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Media and Entertainment

• Want to watch the last episode of your favorite
  reality show that you saved to Windows Media
  Center?
• Do you want pervasive access to your satellite
  radio, from home to the car to work?
• Maybe you need navigation information to a movie
  or concert?
• Imagine extending your home media system to
  automatically integrate with your cars systems.
• Your customers want this too, and they are
  willing to pay for the ability. The features
  available to developers now make building these
  sorts of applications within reach ., Tara
  Prakriya, Frank Gocinski CODE

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Games

• Imagine users being able to continue play on
  your latest game while they sit on the bus or at
  the airport.
• Designing games that allow users to play them in
  short bursts requires a different approach than
  designing them for extended multiplayer
  interaction., Tara Prakriya, Frank Gocinski
  CODE

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Connecting It All

• Connecting to and managing the synchronization of
  all your data and files between various
  computers, devices, external storage, and network
  servers.

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How to Stay On Top

• Web Blogs
• E-news Letters
• Magazines
• Are all great ways to stay current. Without the
  latest news and resources you will find it
  challenging to develop for the future and the
  world around you.

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Just A few Good Magazines
Photoshop Creative
Advanced Photoshop
Web Designer
Digital Photographer
PDA Essentials
PC Magazine
Code
Asp.net PRO
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Credits

• Some of the photos and writings form this
  PowerPoint were taken from CoDe Focus Magazine
  2007 volume 4 /issue 2