Personal Digital Devices

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Unit 1:

Personal Digital Devices

Convergence: they do the same thing (peripherals)

Mixing technology- all items do everything whereas before a

digital device did one thing

Audiences:

Mobiles

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Past- military/ office workers

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Now- everyone(children, adults, teens, older

people)

Games Consoles

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Now- teenagers, older men, men

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Can access the internet and chat to people

Computers

·

Now- Offices/ workplaces

·

Attached to networks, easier to use than

tablets, screens are bigger

Mobile Communication

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Anything that is capable of communicating

without a system or wires

GSM (Global System for Mobile communications)- phone

technology

3g-

generation

GPRS- General Packet Radio Service (between 2g and 3g)

Wi-Fi- Wireless-Fidelity

Kbps-

kilo bites per second

Gsm (slowest), GPRS, 3g (fastest)

PAN- personal area network

Bluetooth originally like Wi-Fi- used to airdrop in iPhones,

and for wireless speakers/ headphones

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Blue jacking accessing peoples phones, happened

when Bluetooth first came out (does not occur as much anymore)

Cameras- resolution in pixels

Optical zoom on an iphone, digital zoom on video cameras

(change the lens)