unit 1

unit 1: living in the digital world

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features of a mobile phone

Features of a mobile phone

  • making calls - sound quality, volume control, reception, battery life
  • Texting - battery life, contacts, reception, screen, keyboard
  • taking pictures - camera, screen, zoom, memory
  • listening to music - battery life, speaker, memory
  • surfing the web - wifi, 3G, browser, internet, screen
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mobile phone apps - particular or special needs

apps on an IPhone

  • IHear - It helps deaf people navigate around their phone easily using sounds and hearing aid facilities
  • TapTapSee - This app allows blind people to double tap the screen to take a picture of the object in front of them. It tells the what the object is making it easier to live their day to day lives.
  • Talking Camera - This app does the same as the app above allowing visual impaired people to have a better idea of the objects in front of them
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Data Transfer - swapping memory cards

swapping memory cards

Ease of use - swapping memory cards isnt very easy because IPhones dont have external memory, therefore, this is impossible to swap memory cards. Sometimes the phone takes a long time to recognise the card in the person with them.

Range - this will only work if you are next to the person or with them

Speed - It's not a very quick process as it involves swapping cards and taking out batteries. Also the phone has to recognise the memory card.

1-to-1 or one-to-memory - this is a 1-1 transfer

 

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Data Transfer - bluetooth

Bluetooth

Ease of use - Bluetooth is easy because it is a fast way of sending pictures to one another easily.

Range - This will only work if your phone has bluetooth and you are close to each other.

Speed - It's quite fast.

1-to-1 or one-to-many - One-to-many transfer

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Data Transfer - MMS

MMS

Ease of use - MMS is easy to use as you can just select a contact and send them the picture straight away. However, you may receive charges from your network provider. You need reception to send and receive and MMS

Range - You can send it to anyone anywhere; however, if you are sending it abroad it will cost a lot

Speed - Not very fast, sometimes sends straight after, however this depends on how much reception you have.

1-to-1 or one-to-many - one-to-many transfer

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Data Transfer - Email

Email

Ease of use - email is fairly easy to use as you can attach it to an email and send it your contacts via your phone

Range - You can send it to anyone anywhere; however, if you are sending it abroad from your phone it will cost a lot

Speed - Not very fast, sometimes sends straight after, however this depends on how much reception you have

1-to-1 or one-to-many - one-to-many

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Data Transfer - web

Web

Ease of use - this is a very easy thing to use and allows you to send it to anyone even if they aren't a contact on your phone. Twitter and Facebook allow you to send the picture to people.

Range - you can send it to anywhere

Speed - Not very fast, sometimes sends straight away, however this depends on how much reception you have

1-to-1 or one-to-many - one-to-many transfer

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