The rate of increase in the popularity of mobile phone usage has far outpaced the availability of usable frequencies which are necessary for the communication between mobile users and the base stations of cellular networks.
Because the GPS on the mobile phone is only continually usable in outdoor areas, we first calculated each mobile user's personalized pedometry in these areas using the accelerometer and GPS measurements, and then took similar measurements for each user in indoor areas, using the accelerometer and orientation sensors.
A £500,000 grant from the Google Impact Challenge, which supports charities using technology to aid people, is funding the development of a wearable slimmed-down pair of glasses and software that is usable on a mobile phone.
Jildy Inc.'s chief executive, Mark Drummond, who previously created the unsuccessful but technically impressive Wowd social search engine, says Jildy's developers aim to solve Mr. Shirky's problem by whittling down your Facebook feeds into chunks you will find usable on a mobile phone, where your attention span and screen size are much smaller than they are on a laptop or at a desk.
We present a more usable result on the mobile phone than incumbent search engines.
The study showed the feasibility of mobile phone surveillance for mobile pastoralist camps, providing usable, valid information on human and livestock population structures, pregnancy outcomes and herd dynamics, as well as migration patterns.
BT – which last year paid £12bn to buy EE, Britain's largest mobile phone network – currently holds 45% of the UK's usable mobile spectrum.
Here was a handset that was superbly usable, had the best physical keyboard yet on a mobile phone and managed to be cool – something BlackBerry had lacked for quite a while.
With the addition of a lens and fast memory chips, the phones become usable as digital cameras and camcorders too.Many people think that the mobile phone will emerge as a central device in the digital future.
