Mobile Technology Questions

iPhone responds to motion using a built-in accelerometer.
The accelerometer detects the movement and changes the display accordingly, at the time of rotating iPhone from portrait to landscape. 

Research in Motion, a Canadian company provided a proprietary operating system for BlackBerry.

The operating system provides support for Java MIDP 1.0 and WAP 1.2.

The current version supports Novell Group Wise and Lotus Notes.

Third-party software can be developed using BlackBerry APIs as well, with certain restriction functionality must be signed by RIM digitally, so that it can be associated to a developer account. 

There is the demand for the rich multimedia that involves many features that are used till now to make the Android market more popular in all the phases. The application includes the following:

• Mixable audio effects – developer can easily create audio environments using the API key that is provided with it like creating equalization, bass boost, headphone feature, etc. The android provide the tools that can be used to mix the audio effects and apply it.

• There is also support for new media formats like VP8 open video compression format that uses a container format that can run on all the platforms and add the support for AAC and AMR encoding. The applications provided allow higher quality video to be captured.

• The application allows the access to multiple cameras that allows the use of APIs to include the camera and its properties in one. The platform provides the application to include the camera with high and low resolution.

BlackBerry is nothing but a handheld wireless device that is just like a two way pager.

It supports the features like mobile telephone, push e-mail, text messaging, web browsing, internet faxing.

In addition to these, all types of wireless information services and multi-touch interfaces are also included. 

Android uses many security measures to keep them away from the hackers. They have designed by making changes to the devices or installing a software service on the mobile. Android application uses sandbox that is very popular and allow limited access to the information that is very private and sensitive for the user. It allows the permissions to be set for the use of the information. The security measures that are provided by android is the use of the encryption of the messages that allow user to remain without worry about there phone security. They also consists of user terms and agreements that also taken care of. Most of the time android doesn't allow other applications to run on their system but it can be done by using different resources that are available on-line. As, android is open source it is not fully secure but lots of security issues are being solved for make it more popular and bug free.

Video: Videos can be edited, shared. High quality VGA video can be shot in portrait or landscape.

- 3 Megapixel Camera: Still photos with greater quality can be taken

- Voice control: It recognizes the names in contacts and recognizes the music on iPod.

- Compass: iPhone 3GS has built-in digital compass, used to point the way.

- Internet Tethering: Internet surfing can be done from anywhere. A 3G connection can be shared on Iphon3 with Mac notebook or laptop.. 

There are two modes of operations that are necessary to run depending on the value returned by the startcommand(). The modes are as follows:
-  START_STICKY: this mode is used for the services that are explicitly started and stopped according to the need and the requirement of the user.
- START_NOT_STICKY or START_REDELIEVER_INTENT: this service mode is used for services that are running only when the processing command sent to them. That means these run on the basis of the command that is passed to them by giving the instruction of execution.
- Clients uses the Context.bindService() that is used to get the persistent connection for a service. To create a service that is not already running the command onCreate is used.

It is similar to MacOS X architecture

It acts as an intermediary between the iPhone and iPod hardware an the appearing applications on the screen

The user created applications never interact directly with the appropriate drivers, which protects the user applications from changes to the hardware.