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Feeling hamstrung by your new Samsung? Figure out how to navigate your new phone in no time Your Samsung Galaxy comes packed with features you'll use every day, and Samsung Galaxy S21 For Dummies is your guide to exploring them. What do you want to do first? Send a text or email? Take photos and videos? Make a basic call? Play games? Shop? This handy guide can help you do all that and so much more. Get an overview of the buttons, screens, and apps that are essential to operating your new phone Manage your contacts so you can stay connected with calls, emails, or texts Surf the web and find new games and apps in the Google Play Store Customize your phone with ringtones, wallpaper, and awesome accessories Watch videos and movies, shoot your own videos, and take photos Boost your productivity with calendar, GPS, and productivity apps Secure your Samsung Galaxy with your face ID, thumbprint, and Screen Lock Not only does Samsung Galaxy S21 For Dummies describe features and walk you through steps to use your new phone, it also shows you what the screens look like and where to tap to make things happen. It's like having a Samsung expert at your elbow. So pick up your copy today to make the most of your Samsung smartphone.
"UMTS Network Planning, Optimization, and Inter-Operation with GSM" is an accessible, one-stop reference to help engineers effectively reduce the time and costs involved in UMTS deployment and optimization. "Rahnema" includes detailed coverage from both a theoretical and practical perspective on the planning and optimization aspects of UMTS, and a number of other new techniques to help operators get the most out of their networks.Provides an end-to-end perspective, from network design to optimizationIncorporates the hands-on experiences of numerous researchersSingle authorship allows for strong coherency and accessibilityDetails the complete iteration cycle of radio link budgeting for coverage planning and dimensioning "Rahnema" demonstrates detailed formulation of radio capacity and coverage in UMTS, and discusses the tradeoffs involved. He presents complete link budgeting and iterative simulations for capacity and coverage planning, along with practical guidelines. "UMTS Network Planning" contains seventeen cohesive and well-organized chapters which cover numerous topics, including: Radio channel structures, radio channel models, parameters, model tuningTechniques for capacity and coverage enhancementsComplete treatment of power control, handoffs and radio resource practical management processes and parametersDetailed coverage of TCP protocol enhancement for operation over wireless links, particularly UMTSApplication of GSM measurements to plan and re-engineer for UMTS radio sitesGuidelines for site co-location with GSM, the QOS classes, parameters and inter-workings in UMTSAMR voice codecs and tradeoffs, core and access network design, architectural evolution, and protocolsComprehensive discussion and presentation of practical techniques for radio performance analysis, trending, and troubleshooting Perfect for professionals in the field and researchers specializing in network enhancement. Engineers working on other air interfaces and next generation technologies will find many of the techniques introduced helpful in designing and deploying future wireless networks as well. Students and professionals new to the wireless field will also find this book to be a good foundation in network planning, performance analysis, and optimization.
Whether used for communication, entertainment, socio-economic growth, crowd-sourcing social and political events, monitoring vital signs in patients, helping to drive vehicles, or delivering education, mobile technology has been transformed from a mode to a medium. Mobile Technology Consumption: Opportunities and Challenges explores essential questions related to the cost, benefit, individual and social impact, and security risks associated with the rapid consumption of mobile technology. This book presents the current state of mobile technologies and their use in various domains including education, healthcare, government, entertainment, and emerging economic sectors.
This book shows how networking research and quality engineering can be combined to successfully manage the transmission quality when speech and video telephony is delivered in heterogeneous wireless networks. Nomadic use of services requires intelligent management of ongoing transmission, and to make the best of available resources many fundamental trade-offs must be considered. Network coverage versus throughput and reliability of a connection is one key aspect, efficiency versus robustness of signal compression is another. However, to successfully manage services, user-perceived Quality of Experience (QoE) in heterogeneous networks must be known, and the perception of quality changes must be understood. These issues are addressed in this book, in particular focusing on the perception of quality changes due to switching between diverse networks, speech and video codecs, and encoding bit rates during active calls.
Combining information on the most important and related technologies in the mobile communications field, this two book package gives the engineer a concise, complete and authoritative introduction to LTE and SAE and The Evolved Packet Core. Written by experts who played a leading role in the development of the standards, this package gives insight into the 'how' and 'why', enabling the professional engineer to implement the technologies that are central to the mobile broadband revolution. Includes details of the standards and technologies with 160 new pages: LTE radio interface architecture, LTE physical layer and LTE access procedures Contains three brand new chapters on LTE: Transmission Procedures, Flexible Bandwidth and LTE Evolution, plus expanded details on the physical layer (total LTE content is 270 pages) Examines the latest developments in the evolution of LTE into IMT-Advanced, the next stage of 3G Evolution Gives clear explanations of the role of OFDM and MIMO technologies in HSPA and LTE Outlines the System Architecture Evolution (SAE) supporting LTE and HSPA evolution Up-to-date coverage of SAE including the latest standards development Easily accessible overview of the architecture and concepts defined by SAE Thorough description of the Evolved Packet Core for LTE, fixed and other wireless accesses Comprehensive explanation of SAE key concepts, security and Quality-of-Service Covers potential service and operator scenarios including interworking with existing 3GPP and 3GPP2 systems Detailed walkthrough of network entities, protocols and procedures Written by established experts in the SAE standardization process, all of whom have extensive experience and understanding of its goals, history and vision
Starting with an overview of current research progresses on multiple access technology, the book then presents the theoretical fundamentals, technical principles, transmission scheme, key technologies and evaluation results of new multi-access technologies, especially focusing on its typical applications 5G communication systems. With extensive practical cases, it is an essential reference for researchers, engineers and graduate students.
Easy, clear, readable, and focused on what you want to do. Step-by-step instructions for the tasks you care about most. Large, full-color, close-up photos with callouts to iPhone photos that show you exactly what to do. Common-sense help when you run into iPhone problems or limitations. Tips and notes to help you get the most from your iPhone. Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your iPhone working just the way you want. The tasks include how to: * Connect to the Internet, Bluetooth devices, and Wi-Fi networks * Use Siri to get information, write texts and emails, set reminders/appointments, and more--just by speaking to your iPhone * Customize your iPhone with noti_ cations, wallpaper, ringtones, and much more * Use iCloud, Google, and other cloud services to have consistent calendar, contact, and other information on all your devices * Communicate via phone calls, FaceTime videoconferences, text, email, and more * Take advantage of the Messages app to instantly communicate with just about anyone, anywhere; send and receive photos and videos with a few simple taps * Get the most out of Safari to browse the Web and Mail to manage all your email from one Inbox * Use the Wallet app to store and easily use boarding passes, loyalty cards, and credit cards * Capture and edit photos and video; use great camera features such as telephoto zoom, portrait mode, burst photos, time-lapse and slow-motion video, and Live Photos * View, edit, and organize your photos in the Photos app; easily send photos via texts and emails or use them on the Home or Lock screens * Find, download, install, and use iPhone apps to help you travel, get information, keep in touch, have fun, and more
Mobile Applications Development with Android: Technologies and Algorithms presents advanced techniques for mobile app development, and addresses recent developments in mobile technologies and wireless networks. The book covers advanced algorithms, embedded systems, novel mobile app architecture, and mobile cloud computing paradigms.
This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the newly-emerging science of mobile phone behavior. It presents the unexpected complexity of human mobile phone behavior through four basic aspects of mobile phone usage (users, technologies, activities, and effects), and then explores four major domains of such behavior (medicine, business, education, and everyday life). Chapters open with thoughts on mobile phone usage and behavior from interviews with cell phone users, then present a series of scientific studies, synthesized knowledge, and real-life cases, concluding with complex but highly readable analyses of each aspect of mobile phone behavior. Readers should achieve two intellectual goals: gaining a usable knowledge of the complexity of mobile phone behaviour, and developing the skills to analyze the complexity of mobile phone usage - and further technological behaviors.
Mobile computing technology has come a long way in recent years-providing anytime, anywhere communication and access to information. Bringing students up to date on important technological and industry developments, Principles of Mobile Computing and Communications examines mobile networks and relevant standards, highlighting issues unique to the mobile computing environment and exploring the differences between conventional and mobile applications. Going beyond discussions on wireless network infrastructure and how to develop enterprise mobile applications, this textbook considers pervasive computing and smart environments, the complexity of designing and developing such applications, and how issues are dependent on the context of the applications. Following an overview of what mobile computing has to offer and how its applications affect both our professional and personal lives, it focuses on the technologies and the infrastructure of all mobile and wireless networks, cellular networks, WLANs, WPANs, and sensor and mobile ad hoc networks. The textbook then discusses the Mobile IP, adaptive behavior, power management, resource constraints, interface design, seamless mobility support, and locating sensing techniques and systems. It also discusses important security issues that concern all users regardless of applications employed.
This book presents effective ways to partition mobile devices such that the enterprise system access and its information are completely separated from the personal information. For those using mobile devices for personal and business purposes, the ability to keep the data secure and separate is critical. The applications for security in smart platforms range from personal email accounts to global enterprise systems. Several approaches for mobile virtualization are described, all creating secure and secluded environments for enterprise information. The authors present a reference architecture that allows for integration with existing enterprise mobile device management systems and provides a lightweight solution for containerizing mobile applications. This solution is then benchmarked with several of the existing mobile virtualization solutions across a range of mobile devices. Virtualization Techniques for Mobile Systems is an excellent resource for researchers and professionals working in mobile systems. Advanced-level students studying computer science and electrical engineering will also find the content helpful.
Mobile Learning and Higher Education provides case studies of mobile learning in higher education settings to showcase how devices can transform learning at the undergraduate and graduate levels. With the rapid diffusion of networked technologies among the adult populations of many countries and the supersession of the once-ubiquitous lecture approach with active learner-centered teaching for deep understanding, mobile devices are increasingly used in higher education classrooms to offer unique and effective new approaches to teaching and learning. A cutting-edge research volume, this collection also provides a springboard for building better practices in higher education institutions.
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Maximize the power of your iPhone 5Master the versatile features of your iPhone 5 and stay organized, connected, informed, and entertained. How to Do Everything: iPhone 5 covers iOS 6 and the new capabilities added to the core functions and apps, such as Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Safari, Mail, Camera, Maps, FaceTime, and iTunes. You'll also learn how to use iCloud, Notification Center, and Siri. Plus, discover tips on finding and downloading additional apps that can dramatically increase your iPhone's performance. This hands-on guide covers it all! Get assistance from Siri and use the Dictation feature Import and sync data from your computer, iCloud, and other iOS devices Discover preinstalled apps and download additional apps Make and receive calls, use voicemail, and set up custom ringtones Manage Contacts and stay organized with Calendar, Reminders, and Notes Surf the Web with Safari Shoot, edit, and share photos and videos Navigate with turn-by-turn directions using the newly redesigned Maps app Manage e-mail accounts, use text messaging, and connect to social media networks, including Facebook and TwitterVideo chat via FaceTime or Skype Experience multimedia entertainment and read e-books and digital editions of newspapers and magazines Play exciting single- and multi-player games Protect and troubleshoot your iPhone 5
This book addresses current technology trends and requirements leading towards the next era in mobile communication handsets; and beyond that the book proposes innovative solutions that could be candidate solutions for 5G phones. It adopts a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary stance towards handset design, a necessary ingredient if 5th Generation handset and services are to really take-off. Therefore the scope of the book targets a broad range of subjects, including energy efficiency, RF design, cooperation, context-aware systems, roaming, and short-range networking, all of which working in synergy to provide seamless mobility and high speed connectivity within a HetNet environment. Specifically, the authors investigate how we can exploit the cooperation paradigm and context-aware mechanism working in synergy to provide energy compliant phones that can introduce power savings of up to 50% on state-of-the-art. Going beyond this, a chapter on business modeling approaches is also included, based on incentive mechanisms for cooperation that will provide the necessary leverage to promote the up-take of the proposed technology.
This book provides an insight into the key practical aspects and best practice of 4G-LTE network design, performance, and deployment Design, Deployment and Performance of 4G-LTE Networks addresses the key practical aspects and best practice of 4G networks design, performance, and deployment. In addition, the book focuses on the end-to-end aspects of the LTE network architecture and different deployment scenarios of commercial LTE networks. It describes the air interface of LTE focusing on the access stratum protocol layers: PDCP, RLC, MAC, and Physical Layer. The air interface described in this book covers the concepts of LTE frame structure, downlink and uplink scheduling, and detailed illustrations of the data flow across the protocol layers. It describes the details of the optimization process including performance measurements and troubleshooting mechanisms in addition to demonstrating common issues and case studies based on actual field results. The book provides detailed performance analysis of key features/enhancements such as C-DRX for Smartphones battery saving, CSFB solution to support voice calls with LTE, and MIMO techniques. The book presents analysis of LTE coverage and link budgets alongside a detailed comparative analysis with HSPA+. Practical link budget examples are provided for data and VoLTE scenarios. Furthermore, the reader is provided with a detailed explanation of capacity dimensioning of the LTE systems. The LTE capacity analysis in this book is presented in a comparative manner with reference to the HSPA+ network to benchmark the LTE network capacity. The book describes the voice options for LTE including VoIP protocol stack, IMS Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC). In addition, key VoLTE features are presented: Semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), TTI bundling, Quality of Service (QoS), VoIP with C-DRX, Robust Header Compression (RoHC), and VoLTE Vocoders and De-Jitter buffer. The book describes several LTE and LTE-A advanced features in the evolution from Release 8 to 10 including SON, eICIC, CA, CoMP, HetNet, Enhanced MIMO, Relays, and LBS. This book can be used as a reference for best practices in LTE networks design and deployment, performance analysis, and evolution strategy. * Conveys the theoretical background of 4G-LTE networks * Presents key aspects and best practice of 4G-LTE networks design and deployment * Includes a realistic roadmap for evolution of deployed 3G/4G networks * Addresses the practical aspects for designing and deploying commercial LTE networks. * Analyzes LTE coverage and link budgets, including a detailed comparative analysis with HSPA+. * References the best practices in LTE networks design and deployment, performance analysis, and evolution strategy * Covers infrastructure-sharing scenarios for CAPEX and OPEX saving. * Provides key practical aspects for supporting voice services over LTE, Written for all 4G engineers/designers working in networks design for operators, network deployment engineers, R&D engineers, telecom consulting firms, measurement/performance tools firms, deployment subcontractors, senior undergraduate students and graduate students interested in understanding the practical aspects of 4G-LTE networks as part of their classes, research, or projects.
Learn how to edit photographs on your phone with this step-by-step guide from professional photographer Jo Bradford Do you know how to make the best of the photos you’ve taken with your phone? We all have hundreds of images on our phones that could do with a little improvement, but transferring them to a hard drive and working in an out-of-date editing program on your Mac or PC can seem like too much hassle. Award-winning professional photographer Jo Bradford, author of the bestselling Smart Phone Smart Photography, can show you how to edit your photos easily and conveniently on your iPhone or Android, using the free Snapseed app. Smart Phone Smart Photo Editing shows you how to use the app to do everything from raw developing and saving a copy, to compositional improvements, global enhancements to colour and other elements, and smaller adjustments to specific details. With clear step-by-step text and illustrations for each process, you will soon learn how to get the best from the app and from your images. Case studies and beautiful images taken by Jo will also help to inspire you in your photography.
This brief surveys existing techniques to address the problem of long delays and high power consumption for web browsing on smartphones, which can be due to the local computational limitation at the smartphone (e.g., running java scripts or flash objects) level. To address this issue, an architecture called Virtual-Machine based Proxy (VMP) is introduced, shifting the computing from smartphones to the VMP which may reside in the cloud. Mobile Web Browsing Using the Cloud illustrates the feasibility of deploying the proposed VMP system in 3G networks through a prototype using Xen virtual machines (in cloud) and Android Phones with ATT UMTS network. Techniques to address scalability issues, resource management techniques to optimize the performance of the VMs on the proxy side, compression techniques to further reduce the bandwidth consumption, and adaptation techniques to address poor network conditions on the smartphone are also included.
NFC is a world standard since 2004 which is now within every smartphone on the market. Such a standard enables us to do mobile transactions (mobile payment) in a secure way along with many other information- based tap n play operations. This book has a double role for computer scientists (from bachelor students in CS to IT professionals).
"The new era of powerful, mobile computing and sensing devices
having ever larger memories and personal databases brings to light
a number of difficult problems in software, interface design,
search, organization of information, and methods for inferring
context and for sharing personal content... The authors have done
an admirable job at describing the problems and opportunities and,
as such, this book should be on the shelves of researchers
struggling to make these mobile devices truly valuable to the ever
expanding number of their users." "Personal Content Experience" is a comprehensive introduction to mobile personal content. The book introduces and explores issues such as context capture, user interfaces for continuous mobile use, UI design for mobile media applications, metadata magic, virtual communities, and ontologies. User interactions and behavioural patterns with personal content are also covered, resulting in a 'GEMS' lifecycle model for analysing media devices, services, applications, and user interfaces. In addition, the book describes an extensible software architecture targeted at content management in mobile devices, pointing out the essential topics that will benefit anyone developing mobile content-intensive applications and services. "Personal Content Experience: " Establishes a foundation for analyzing applications, services and user interfaces targeted at personal content. Provides a strong industrial insight, combining hands-on examples, application concepts and software architecture descriptions with theoretical frameworks and models. Offers a multi-disciplinary approach, considering both userperspective and technology aspects. This book is a clear and practical guide to the field of personal content and will be invaluable to practitioners in mobile industry and digital content management, media-intensive application developers, content creators and distributors, academic researchers, and lecturers in computer science and multimedia.
The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book explores not only the iPhone's particular characteristics, uses and "affects," but also how the "iPhone moment" functions as a barometer for broader patterns of change. In the iPhone moment, this study considers the convergent trajectories in the evolution of digital and mobile culture, and their implications for future scholarship. Through the lens of the iPhone-as a symbol, culture and a set of material practices around contemporary convergent mobile media-the essays collected here explore the most productive theoretical and methodological approaches for grasping media practice, consumer culture and networked communication in the twenty-first century.
Design and development of a cost-effective mobile broadband wireless access network is a key challenge for many mobile network operators. Overdimensioning or underdimensioning of the access network results in additional costs and a reduction of the customer satisfaction, respectively. Thushara Weerawardane introduces new transport technologies and features for High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks. He proposes novel adaptive flow control and enhanced congestion control algorithms and develops corresponding analytical models. These models are based on Markov chains and can be performed for faster analysis evaluation compared to long lasting detailed simulations. Both simulation and analytical models provide optimum network performance and reliable guaranteed quality of standard for the end users during congestion in the transport network. Further, the author investigates and analyzes the LTE transport network performance by introducing novel traffic differentiation models and buffer management techniques during intra-LTE handovers.
Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime, they can also use their devices to map their precise geographic coordinates and access location-specific information like restaurant reviews, historical information, and locations of other people nearby. The proliferation of location-aware mobile technologies calls for a new understanding of how we define public spaces, how we deal with locational privacy, and how networks of power are developed today. In Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces, Adriana de Souza E. Silva and Jordan Frith examine these social and spatial changes by framing the development of location-aware technology within the context of other mobile and portable technologies such as the book, the Walkman, the iPod, and the mobile phone. These technologies work as interfaces to public spaces that is, as symbolic systems that not only filter information but also reshape communication relationships and the environment in which social interaction takes place. Yet rather than detaching people from their surroundings, the authors suggest that location-aware technologies may ultimately strengthen our connections to locations.
This international, interdisciplinary collection explores a range of possible theoretical and empirical approaches to cultural technologies and mobile communication by treating the iPhone as a case study. As the mobile phone graduates into a fully web-capable and multi-media device, the contributors to this volume critically examine the nature and implications of this shift, considering the iPhone as a significant moment in media history. With the emergence of networked, convergent mobile media devices like the iPhone, new media and communication practices are emerging. Increasingly, the mobile phone is becoming a platform for gaming, online social networking and emergent lifestyle applications. The iPhone is symbolic of this phenomenon, but it also has its own distinctive features (in terms of branding and use), and so provides media and communication theorists with a unique opportunity to explore these practices. Indeed, the iPhone--as part of broader shifts toward ubiquitous, convergent mobile devices and "smartphones"--can be usefully deployed as a case study enabling new insights into mobile media culture.
The iPhone is the hottest gadget of our generation, and much of its success has been fueled by the App Store, Apple's online marketplace for iPhone applications. Over 1 billion apps have been downloaded in the 9 months the App Store has been open, ranging from the simplest games to the most complex business apps. Everyone has an idea for the next best-selling iPhone apppresumably that's why you're reading this now. And with the release of the iPad, this demand will just continue to grow. So how do you build an application for the iPhone and iPad? Don't you need to spend years learning complicated programming languages? What about Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, and the software development kit (SDK)? The answer is that you don't need to know any of those things. Anybody can start building simple applications for the iPhone and iPad, and this book will show you how. This book takes you to getting your first applications up and running using plain English and practical examples. It cuts through the fog of jargon and misinformation that surrounds iPhone and iPad application development, and gives you simple, step-by-step instructions to get you started.Teaches iPhone and iPad application development in language anyone can understand Provides simple, step-by-step examples that make learning easy Offers videos that enable you to follow along with the authorit's like your own private classroom What you'll learn Get both yourself and your computer set up for iPhone and iPad application development. Start by making small changes to existing applications to build your knowledge and experience before creating your own applications. Follow steps in plain English to build simple apps and get them working immediately. Style your application so that it looks good and users can easily navigate through it. Make use of the iPhone's touch screen and accelerometer. Use shortcuts and cheat sheets to create apps the easy way. Who this book is for If you have a great idea for an iPhone or iPad app, but have never programmed before, then this book is for you. You don't need to have any previous computer programming skills--as long as you have a desire to learn, and you know which end of the mouse is which, you'll be fine. Table of Contents Before We Get Started Blast-Off What's Next? An Introduction to the Code Buttons & Labels with Multiple Graphics Switch View with Multiple Graphics Dragging, Rotating, and Scaling Table Views, Navigation, and Arrays MapKit |
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