What are Mobile devices?
Mobile devices take on many forms, the familiar mobile (cellular) phone through global positioning handsets, pagers, blueberry organisers to smart watches, cameras and headsets. Don’t be put off by this crazy array of hardware because there are two key facts that we would like you to bear in mind. Firstly, almost all the time we undertake serious mobile projects they involve mobile phones and we can ignore the rest as phones are what the well dressed distributed work force can’t work without. Secondly, the platform that unites all these various things is their ability to run a common virtual machine, and in case that sounds like techneze, they are required to speak the same language and be able to execute the same programs. That language is Java and the programs are written in Java 2 Micro Edition which is a specialized subset of the larger Java 2 language. Series 40, series 60, series 80? Phones come in ever more complex models but do not be deceived things are actually becoming a lot
