Foreword

The mobile phone and portable device handset are currently undergoing a transformation caused by several different factors. For one, portable devices are getting more powerful and capable of performing tasks that would have been hard to imagine a few short years ago. Many of us carry a portable device that is capable of everything from using the World Wide Web to watching movies to playing 3D games--and it can even make phone calls! For another, consumers are becoming more savvy and demanding about what they want such a device to do. A third part of the convergence is that portable devices now form a bigger market for software and applications developers than larger computing platforms, and delivery of applications to those devices is ...

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