Mobile Fusion

The book I read to research this post was Mobile Fusion by Haji S Sillah which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. This book looks at mobile devices like tablets and smartphones and their associated technologies. Some of it is quite surprising like that many mobile networks use legacy hardware and if you have a 4G mobile phone on one of these it won't go any faster. Also at the time of publication none of the mobile networks was a true 4G network. Tablets have become popular since the introduction of the iPad and devices like this are a serious threat to the monopoly held by windows computers which in the future may have to concentrate on niche markets like offices. Apple which is worth more than the combined value of Microsoft & Google is focusing on mobile devices like the ipod, iphone & ipad. Apple has a combined retail trade bigger than the US GDP. It is the largest technology firm in the world. In the future landlines will be replaced by wireless technology like WiMAX. Also devices are set to get even smaller and there will be more power crammed into less space and at a lower price. Integration with things like social media and online payments is set to increase and wireless broadband is set to be seen as a service like electricity and gas. Already with the increase in popularity of e-books bricks and mortar stores like Barnes & Noble are cutting back in that regard and focusing more on online sales. Something that is mentioned in the book is at http://udacity.edu there is a free education courses site which has come from Stanford University offering there lectures online but you can even do online exams and it is free.  Another interesting thing is the rise of mobile apps vs mobile websites and apparently the latter is regarded as better for things like price comparison and browsing. Apple only sell apps for their products at the iTunes store although with other platforms like Android Google don't exercise the same level of control. You can't find all the Android apps in any one place and many are on company websites so you haven't even got to an app store. I did quite enjoy reading this book and have barely scratched the surface of what is in it.  It's well worth reading.