DIGITAL DEVICES AND

MEDIA: MANAGING A
DIGITAL LIFESTYLE
DIGITAL
CONVERGENCE

• šThe use of a single unifying device to handle media, internet,

entertainment, and telephony needs, is exemplified in the range
of devices now on the market
• Smartphones do almost anything computers do
 How have mobile device
converged?
Mobile devices have evolved to be able to do multiple tasks.
A device that have significant overlap in the task they can perform.

Example:
• Smartphones can now videoconference like laptops.
• Tablets such as the iPad are touch sensitive like smartphones.
• Netbooks and Ultrabooks both run traditional desktop
operating system and are lightweight.
Digital Living Network
Alliance
• Organization working to standardize the different
kinds of appliances and network devices.

Telephony
• The use of equipment to provide voice communications over a
distance, has shifted from an analog science to a digital one.
 What makes a smartphones a smartphones?

They incorporate functions and features, such as the following that used to be
available only in separate, dedicated devices:
• Internet access
• Personal information management (PIM) features
• Voice recording features
• The ability to play and organize music files
• GPS services
• Digital image and video capture
• Computing power to run programs like word processors or even video-editing
software
 Smartphones Components
All Cell phones-smartphones and features phones - have the same components
as any computer:
• A processor (central processing unit, or CPU)
• Memory
• Input and Output devices.
- Cell phones require their own operating system (OS) software and have their
own application software.
- Smartphones use a CPU and an interface so powerful that they can take on
many of the same task as much more expensive computers: video conferencing,
recording and editing high-definition (HD) and broadcasting live-streaming video.

Cellular (cell) phones - a phone that use mobile and cellular technology.
Features phones - these expensive phones have modest processors, simpler
interfaces, and often no touch screen.
 Smartphones Components
Standard OS for smartphones
• Many smartphones use the Android OS. Apple's iPhone uses iOS, a version of
the OS X operating system used in Apple's computers.
• Microsoft is also now in the running with Windows Phone mobile OS.
Memory do inside a smartphone
• Stores all of the phone's information and programs.
• The OS stores in read-only memory (ROM)
• The phone's permanent memory because the phone would be useless without
that key piece of software.
- Other phone data, such as ring tones and contact lists, is stored in separate
internal memory chips
- Many smartphones let you add additional memory through micro SD flash cards.
 Smartphones Components
Input and Output devices use in smartphones
• The primary input devices for smartphones are its microphone and touch
pad such as:
- BlackBerry Porsche phone offer both touch screen and a built-in keyboard.
- Apple iPhones provides a software based keyboard that supports more
than 40 languages.
Smartphones OS comes with standard collection of software
• To-do list
• Contact Manager
• Calendar
 Cell phones use digital signals
• When you speak into a cell phone, a series of digital processing steps
occur:
• Sound enter the microphone as a sound wave, an annalog-to-digital
converter chips converts your voice's sound waves into digital signals.
• Next, an digital signal processor included in the cell phone that handles
compression work
• Finally, the digital data is transmitted as a radio wave through cellular
network to the destination.
 Synchronizing (Syncing)
The process of updating your data so your all files on your cellphone and
computer are the same.
• Wire - use a micro SD card or a USB cable to directly transfer data.
• Wireless - use a wireless connection to transfer data.

Wired solution
• use a USB data cable to connect phone to standard USB port.
Wireless synchronization
• Bluetooth uses radio waves
• Wi-fi connection through cloud
- Sugar sync
- Apple's iOS 5
 Text Messaging
Short Message Service (SMS) - often called text messaging is a technology
that lets you send short text message ( up to 160 character) over cellular
networks.
Multimedia Message Service (MMS) - lets you send messages that includes
text, sound, images, and video clips to other phones or e-mail address.
Mobile Internet
There are two ways smartphones and most mobile devices can
connect to the internet:
• Using a Wi-Fi Network
• Using the cellular phone system (a 3G or 4G connections)
• 3G - brought mobile devices data-transfer rates as high as 3.8
Mbps. A more reliable than Wi-Fi and is less susceptible to
interference.
• 4G - mobile connections speed of up to 100 Mbps. Also often
nemed "4G LTE" faster than 3G.
Can 3G/4G signal use to create a Wi-Fi
hotspot for other devices?
Mi-Fi (pronounced "my fy") - devices often available free with a new
account from major internet providers like Verizon and AT&T.
• these devices connect to the internet through the wireless phone
network and then distribute the Wi-Fi signal over the area of 30 feet
• these personal hot spots can then support up to 10 Wi-Fi-enabled
devices.
Tethering - makes sure that as long as you have 3G/4G signal, your computer
can access the internet even when it tells you there are no available
wireless netwroks.
Smartphone Security

Can a smartphones get a

VIRUS?
 Smartphone Security
viruses can indeed infect smartphones.
-Among leading companies currently providing antivirus for mobile devices
are:
• Kaspersky Mobile Security - has version for Android phones and devices,
Windows phones, and BlackBerry devices.
• McAfee
• F-Secure
 Smartphone Security
viruses can indeed infect smartphones.
-Among leading companies currently providing antivirus for mobile devices
are:
• Kaspersky Mobile Security - has version for Android phones and devices,
Windows phones, and BlackBerry devices.
• McAfee
• F-Secure
 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
• An alternative fully digital phone service
• A form of voice-based internet communication that turns a standard
internet connection into a means to place phone calls, including long-
distance calls.
• can set up as home telephone system, and can have telephone message
automatically bundled up as e-mails and sent to your account.
• Skype is well-known free provider
Advantages OF VoIP Disadvantage or Drawbacks
• Free Or low cost of VoIP
• Portable as long as connected • Sound quality
to the internet • Loss of service if power is
• Can sign on to VoIP service and interrupted
make a call • Security risks
Tablets
• are very light, very portable devices and runs a mobile OS.
- Top selling Tablets: Apple iPad and Samsung and more 75 tablets
on the market
Tablet and Smartphone similarities
• Operating systems
• Processors
• Touch-screen interfaces
• Long battery life
• Similar software application and internet conncetivity
• Bluetooth
Netbooks
• uses a full traditional OS like Windows 8.
• can't run programs like Microsoft Office on a tablet, but you can on
a netbook.
• has a physical keyboard and weights 2 pounds or less and
expensive compare to both tablets and ultrabooks.
Ultrabook
• a newer category of full-featured computers that focus on offering a
very thin, lightweight computing solution.
• offer SSD drives and have very fast response times on boot up and
restoring from hibernation.
• weight in at under 3 pounds even though they features the same
operating system and CPU as heavier, larger laptops
Guidelines to determine what best fits your
personal needs for particular device

• Screen size and style of keyboard

• Weight
• Number of devices
 Digital Media
- Entertainment industry has become all-digital

Digital Publishing
• Electronic Text (e-text)
- Textual information captured digitally so that it can be stored
manipulated, and transmitted by electronic devices.
• E-reader
- Display e-tect and having supporting tools like note taking, bookmarks,
and integrated dictionaries.
 Digital Publishing
Basic features of e-readers offer advantages over paper books
• Integrated dictionaries
• Note taking and highlighting
• URL links or links to glossary
• Bookmarks are immediately pushed through cloud technology
Free software download versions of the Kindle and NOOK
• Run on PC or Apple computers
• Can download texts as PDF or using Microsoft Readers or
MobiPocket reader
 Digital Publishing
Two popular technologies for representing digital text
• Electronic ink:
- Very crisp, sharp grayscale, representation text
• Backlit monitors
- Screen illuminate themselves
Digital formats for publishing
• Amazon uses proprietary format:
- azw
• Open format:
- ePub
 Digital Publishing
Vendors associated with e-reader devices
• Amazon - kindle
• Barnes and Noble - NOOK
• Many Publishers selling e-books for any kind of device
Libraries lending e-books and audio books
Overdrive Media Console
• Search to find which area library has the book you want
Lending your own e-books
- Barnes and Noble NOOK
Self-publishing
- Self-publish into Amazon Kindle Store
- Lulu
- Smashwords
 Digital Music
- created by turning sound waves created by instruments into a string
of digital information

Sampling rate
• Specifies the number of times the analog waves is measured each
second
• The higher the sampling rate, the more accurately the original wave
can be re-created
• Higher sampling rate produces bigger files
Digital music file format
• MP3 • DivX
• AAC • MPEG-4
• WMA • WMV and Xvid
Digital Music
• File formats compete on sound and video quality and compression
• Number of songs or hours of video devices can hold depends on
storage space
• Always ripping or converting a song you can select sampling rate
• Some devices allow you to add storage
• Subscription plans
- Spotify
- Rhapsody
• High-speed port
- used to move large volumes of data between your computer and
music device
• Cloud services can automatically sync music to mobile device
 Digital Music
Listening options
• Audio receivers have ports for mobile devices
• Networked audio/video receivers
• Auxiliary inputs in cars
• Home speaker docks
Tethered downloads
• Pay for music and own it but are subject to restrictions on its use
• DRM-free music
- a system of access control that allows only limited use of
material that been legally purchased
- music without any digital rights management
 Digital Photography
- Digital cameras capture images on electric sensors and then convert
them to digital data.
- Most cameras also record digital video
Digital Photography Review
• a site that compares cameras and provides feedback from owners
- Smartphone cameras provide lower resolutions and inferior lenses
than standalone cameras
Not provide many features that photographers rely on:
• Autofocus
• Image stabilization algorithms
• Smile shutter
 Digital Photography
- Image quality is determined by many factors
• Quality of lenses
• File format and compression
• Color management software
• Resolution - the number of data points it records for each image
captured
Point-and-shoot offer from 10MP to 15MP
Digital SLRs use resolutions as high as 24MP
- Most common formats
• Raw uncompressed data (RAW)
- Records all original image information
- Larger than compressed files
 Digital Photography
• Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
- Either some compression keeping most details or great
compression losing some details

Transferring files from camera

• USB port
• Flash card
• Wireless network connections
• Eye-Fi
• Eye-Fi Mobile X2
- Scanners also can turn sketches and photos into digital file
- Film negatives and slides
- Quality is measured by its resolutiom
 Digital Photography
Sharing Digitals photos
• Facebook
• Picasa
• Digital scrapbook site such as:
- cottage arts.net
• Tablets and smartphones
• Connect iPad wireless to TV
Printing Digital Photos
• Photo printer
• Photo-printing service
 Digital Video
Digital video surround us
• TV, Hulu
• On-demand streaming video( iTunes, Netflix, Cable)
• The Internet ( Google Video, YouTube, Ustream)
Digital video-editing software allows you to:
• Edit digital video
• Review clips frame by frame
• Reorder segments
• Correct color, balance, brightness or contrast
Codec (compression/decompression)
- a rule implemented in either software or hardware that
squeezes the same audio and video information into less space
 Digital Video
Special authoring software
• Pinnacle Studio HD
• Adobe Encore
• Create final discs and have animated menu systems and easy navigation
controls
Webcasting
- Broadcasting your video live to audience, need webcam and a
site like justin.tv or ustream.tv
- can display interactive chat next to video feed
HD (High Definition)
- standard of digital tv signal that guarantees a specific level of
resolution and a specific aspect ratio
 Digital Video
DVR - Digital Video Recorder
PVR - Personal Video Recording Software fir computer
- SnapStream
Slingbox
- device that takes video from your TV and broadcasts it
over the Internet