Cell Phone Technology
► Cell
technology is changing fast
 Phones
 Tablets
 Computers
► Providers
are many and changing
 Some are new
 Some are being consolidated
► Common
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Offerings
Individual plans
Single Line
Family plan
Up to 5 lines
Business Plans
No Contract Plan
 Voice
►Sometimes
plans include free calls to other phones
from the same provider
►There are also “family & favorites” plans
 Messaging or Text
►Usually
sold by the message or unlimited
►Includes text, picture, video and instant messages.
 Data (Web & Email)
►Includes
Web, email and any other Internet use.
► Voice
 Sold by the minute, or in packages, or
unlimited
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Messaging
 20¢ per text or packages from $5.00/month
► Data
(Web & Email)
 Pay per MB or monthly rate packages.
 Data Packages
► Data
 Usually sold by the Megabyte/Gigabyte or unlimited
► Hot
spot WIFI usually free
 Recent Changes:
► AT&T
eliminated unlimited new offerings, measured at
$15.00 for 200 Megabytes/month and $25.00 for 2
Gigabytes/month
► Verizon offering both measured service 150
Megabytes/month for $15.00/month and $29.99/month for
unlimited
► TMobile offering measured for $10.00 a month for
200Megabytes/month or $30.00/month for unlimited
VERIZON OFFERINGS
Device Type
Monthly Access
Per Line
Data
Allowance
Rate After
Allowance
Feature Phones
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Pay per use
$1.99 per MB
$5
Feature Phones
with data requirement
$10
75 MB
$10 per 75 MB
Included
Feature Phones, 3G
& 4G Smartphones
(email and web for
BlackBerry/Smartphone)
$29.99
Unlimited
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Included
Data package of $29.99 or higher required for 3G and 4G Smartphones
Email
Service
Speeds
► 3G
cellular technology brings wireless
broadband data services to mobile phones.
Speeds from 144Kbps (roughly three times
faster than a 56K dial-up modem
connection) to 2.4Mbps (close to cablemodem speed)
► 4G faster and coming
Operating Systems
►I
Phone APPLE
► Android Google
► Blackberry RIM
► Windows Microsoft
Apps
► Small
Programs that can run on a
Smartphone
► Written for an Operating System
► Can use GPS
► TaskKiller
Future
► Multi
CPU Phone - quad processors are
coming
► Better batteries
► Better screens
► Faster data transfer
► Better software
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Design
Features
Bluetooth™
Cameras Still and Video
MP3/MP4 players
GPS
Email/Browser
APPS
Expandable Memory
Java Games
Mobile TV
Texting
Ringtones
Mobile Roaming
SIM Card
Speakerphone
Battery Life