Site: | OpenLearn Create |
Course: | 3 Digital Skills |
Book: | 3.2 Mobile Devices |
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Date: | Thursday, 28 March 2024, 8:58 PM |
Mobile devices are small portable digital mechanisms such as phones or tablets that provide access to the web, apps, and other software.
Mobile operating systems present a graphical display of buttons, icons, windows, and tiles that you can touch or interact with to perform various tasks. Mobile operating systems also manage the hardware of mobiles and makes it possible for smartphones, tablets, and wearables to run apps.
The two most popular mobile operating systems are Android and iOS.
A mobile application (also called a mobile app) is a type of application designed to run on a mobile device, which can be a smartphone or tablet computer. There are several categories of mobile applications such as Lifestyle, Social Media, Utility, Games/Entertainment, Productivity and News/Information.
The following infographic presents various types (productivity, social media, gaming) and examples (Epicollect5, Facebook, Candy Crush Saga) of mobile applications.
The following is a list of important features of mobile devices:
The following is a list of important uses of mobile devices:
Android mobile devices can use and connect to the internet using a few different methods described in the infographics below.
A Wi-Fi connection does not use any data from your phone plan; depending on your area and service provider, Wi-Fi connections are usually fast.
See infographic below for a step-by-step description of how to connect to the internet using Wi-Fi:
Android devices can connect to the internet with data, but the speed and quality depends on your provider plan and network connection.
See infographic below describing the process of how to connect to the internet by using your mobile data:
If you need to use the internet on your laptop, you can use your phone's data to create a hotspot for it. This will turn your data into an accessible internet connection for the other device.
See infographic below describing the process of how to use your phone to create a hotspot to access the internet:
The following infographic depicts the steps necessary to download, install and open a mobile application using the example of the app ‘Epicollect5’.
Watch this three-part video demonstration series for an example on how to use Mobile applications for data work using Epicollect5.
Part 2 shows how to use the Epicollect5 Mobile Application to collect data for a sample project created in Part 1.
The following are some ways of improving the security of your mobile devices:
The following infographic presents various additional ways of securing your mobile devices: