Personal Digital devices

Personal Digital devices

1. Mobile Phones

   • Features
     • Camera
       • Take pictures and record video
       • Scan QR codes
     • GPS
       • Social media location tracking
       • Satellite Navigation
     • Bluetooth
       • Use the phone to make phonecalls hands free while driving
       • Share files with other devices
     • SMS messaging
       • Send small text files to other phones - communication
     • Wifi enabled
       • Can connect to the internet via wifi
     • 3G/4G enabled
       • Can connect to the internet via 3G or 4G
     • Phone calls
       • Can call other devices and verbally speak to another person
     • Media player
       • Plays music and video
   • Device users
     • Young children
       • touch screen
       • Parental controls
       • Gaming
     • Elderly
       • Large buttons
       • Simple layout
       • Audio assistance
     • Businessmen
       • Bluetooth to make hands free calls
       • Hands free kit as a peripheral
       • data roaming to allow them to use the phone abroad
       • Quad band to allow them to use the phone while on the move
       • GPS
       • Productivity applications, such as calculators and finance management
       • Good security - password to unlock
     • Teenager
       • Media player
       • High storage capacity for media
       • camera
       • Internet capabilities
   • Advantages
     • Unlike standard landline phones, mobile phones are portable and can be used to make calls on the go
     • Do not need to be permenantly wired
     • Can connect to the internet without wifi
     • Contacts can be saved on the phone
   • Disadvantages
     • The cost of a smartphone with many features can be very high. A new top of the rang phone can be between £400 - £500
     • Smartphones need to be re-charged when their batteries run out of charge
     • Overuse can lead to health and addiction problems (such as RSI)
     • Camera quality on phones will typically be poorer than that on a digital camera

2. Personal Computer

   • Features
     • Can connect to the internet
       • Ethernet cable
       • Wifi (peripheral may be needed)
     • Webcam
     • Microphone
     • CD drives
     • USB ports
       • Connect USB devices
     • Hard drive
       • Mass data storage
     • Speakers
       • Sometimes built in
   • Device users
     • Teenager
       • Webcam
       • Lots of hard drive space
       • Good processor & graphics card
       • Speakers
       • Internet access
     • Elderly
       • internet access
       • audio navigation
       • Easy to use
   • Advantages
     • Create edit and delete documents
     • Will connect to the mains electrisity so do not need to be re-charged
   • disadvantages
     • Expensive to buy
     • require many wires to work, saftey hazard
     • Internet access needs to be paid for

3. Digital Cameras

   • Features
     • take photos and videos
     • store data on an SD card
     • Optical zoom or digital zoom
     • upload photos to social media
   • Device users
     • Photographer
       • Powerful optical zoom
       • Camera stand preherial
       • ability to take multiple photos in a short space of time
     • Family / tourists
       • small, light, easy to carry
       • Large storage
       • Auto-focus
       • Social media capabilities
   • Advantages
     • Small but can store many phots, convinent
     • Photos care stored on a card which can be removed, making it easy to develop the images
     • Some can connect to the internet to share photos on socila media
   • Disadvantages
     • Small and potential easy to be stolen
     • Needs to be re-charged when it runs out of charge

4. Media Players

   • Features
     • Can store and play music and video
     • Built in speakers and microphone
     • Wifi and bluetooth capabilities
     • Camera
     • Built in storage
   • Device user
     • teenager
       • lots of storage
       • camera
       • wifi capabilities
       • Ability to download applications
       • Headphone slot
     • Young child
       • Large touch screen
       • parental lock
       • Learning games
       • speakers
   • Advantages
     • Will typically have larger storage capabilities than mobile phones
     • An equally powerful device will be cheaper than a mobile phone
     • Handheld making them easy to carry around
   • Disadvantages
     • Does not have the ability to send calls or SMS texts
     • Cannot connect to the internet via 3G or 4G
     • Can easily be stolen or broken if the user is not cautious, comprimising data

5. Home entertainment system

   • Features
     • Speakers
       • Can be set up around the room to create surround sound
     • Smart TV
       • Can connect to the internet
       • Some are 3D enabled
     • Blu-ray player
       • plays HD Blu-ray discs (which can store 50GB)
     • VCR recorder
       • Can be set to record and store television programs, to be viewed at the user's leisure
   • Advantages
     • Optimises viewing experience
     • Convinient, programs can be recoreded and watched on a later date
     • Movies can be rented through the internet as oppose to order or visiting a rental store, both of which are more time consuming
   • disadvantages
     • Very expensive to buy and maintain
     • Consume lots of electrisity, making them un-environmentally friendly

6. Game consoles

   • Features
     • Powerful device used to play games
     • Disc tray to inser game discs
     • Controllers used to opperate
     • handheld varients small and light
     • Wifi enabled to play online
   • Users
     • Teenager
       • Online capabilities
       • Powerful processor
       • suitable controllers
       • Fast paced action games
     • Elderly
       • Puzzle or maths challange games
       • Not many and large buttons
   • disadvantages
     • Very expensive
     • Users can easily become addicted
     • Health problems can develop from overuse
   • Advantages
     • Far more for gaming than PCs
     • If teens are inside playing games then they are not outside causing trouble
     • Removes social barriers
     • People can communicate and keep in contact

7. Satellite navigation systems

   • Features
     • Connects to satellites to determin your exact location on the planet
     • Can be used to plan journeys and update as you take them
     • Can be touch screen and contain speakers
   • Users
     • Hiker
       • Light and small to carry around remote locations
       • Long battery life or the ability to solar charge
     • Motorist
       • A device which can connect and use power from the car
       • Has the ability to plan and follow a journey using roads
       • Spaekers to give instructions on the journey's route
   • Advantages
     • Small ligh and easy to carry
     • relatively inexpensive
   • Disadvantages
     • Users may rely heavily on the device, so if it fails there may be sever concequences