Authors:
Gunther Schiefer
and
Michael Decker
Affiliation:
Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Method, University Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Keyword(s):
Simple Phone, Feature Phone, Smartphone, Handheld, Web-Tablet, Netbook, Mobile PC, Tablet-PC, classification, mobile Terminal.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
M-Business and Ubiquitous Services
;
Mobile Services and Architectures
;
Web and Mobile Business Systems and Services
Abstract:
There is a great number of different types of mobile computing devices like cellular phones, Handhelds and notebooks. However in literature so far there is no common accepted definition for these terminal types. Especially the term “Smartphone” is used for very different types of mobile phones. In our article we therefore propose a comprehensive taxonomy for mobile terminals that clearly distinguishes between different classes of terminals.