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What is a mobile device?

What is a mobile device?

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What is a mobile device?

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- Now before we start talking about mobile devices let's make sure we understand what is exactly a mobile device. So a couple of rule sets. Number one, a mobile device is going to be sealed. It's going to be a single unit that you cannot open or at least you can't open easily, and you can't go in and replace memory and add hard drives and stuff like that. So it's going to be a sealed, single-function system. Number two, a mobile device is going to be running very specific operating systems designed for mobile devices. In these days, Android and iOS are the two big front runners but there's actually others. There's a lot of versions of Linux, for example which are designed to run on, ready for a term, an embedded system. All of these are embedded systems. By embedded the operating system is intrinsic, stored on firmware to this device. Also, these devices aren't designed to support lots of different device drivers and such…

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