The graduation thesis "Trends in mobile phones development" is focusing principally on detailed analysis of mobile phone market on a global scale. The aim of this thesis is to elaborate comprehensive analysis of mobile phone market oriented on phones with operating systems (smartphones). The analysis is drawn primarily from the perspective of the key players in the market and comparison of these manufactures. After the descriptive part, where is introduced market as a whole, market segmentation by volume and value, this section focuses on segmentation of the global market by key players. This descriptive part is completed by market segmentation according to the amount of mobile phones sold by key players. Second analysis is segmented by operating system. Following parts of the thesis is more practical. This part of the thesis is analyzing the companies, which are selling smartphones. In this part I started by describing a brief overview about what the market is, what is focusing on and what their advantages and pitfalls are. My focus is analyzing the market via Porter's analysis and SWOT analysis of individual manufactures. Finally, I analyze the financial indicators from year 2007 to present. In conclusion I come to recommendations what manufactures should and should not to do. Chapter with warnings is described by the products on the market, which failed in recent years. At very end I come to the evaluation and recommendations, which theoretically should bring some positive progress to companies. The main contribution of this thesis is to provide comprehensive, detailed analysis of the market of mobile phones and smartphones manufactures on a global scale. One of the benefits is the collection of information, data and analysis describing the current state of the market, but also recommendations practices, to which I reached via progression of the this work. Thanks to unique appreciation of the global mobile phone market, their indicators and strategic information, it is necessary to say that this thesis can be very valuable material for some readers, who want to get overview, or seek accurate information about certain manufacture.

Atualmente desenvolvem-se técnicas para a análise, identificação e o reconhecimento da fala. As mais eficientes mostram-se matematicamente complicadas, baseadas em análise estatísticas de dados, o que torna o sistema moroso, necessitando uma grande quantidade de dados para amostras. Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar a possibilidade do uso de Estruturas Neurais Artificiais Paraconsistentes no aprendizado e reconhecimento de sinais de fala, independentemente de análise estatística, ou número de amostras. A partir de um estudo piloto, identificou-se a necessidade de um aprofundamento no estudo dos Traços Formantes dos Fones. Com os Formantes dos Fones pode-se criar um sistema capaz de reconhecer sons produzidos em qualquer língua, pelas combinações da produção de sons através da emissão simultânea de um conjunto de Formantes. Como possível solução para a identificação dos Formantes dos Fones propõe-se neste trabalho a criação do conceito de Constelação Fônica, que consiste no reconhecimento de combinações de características matemáticas identificadas nos sinais sonoros de fala. Como uma forma de reconhecer estas Constelações, apresentam-se as Redes Neurais Artificiais Paraconsistentes, eficientes no reconhecimento de padrões por proximidade e com capacidade para tratamento de sinais contraditórios e paracompletos. Para a viabilização desta solução, criou-se um Programa de Computador (Sistema de Análise da Produção da Fala - SIAPF) capaz de promover os tratamentos necessários em um sinal falado, gerando assim a sua Constelação Fônica e sua respectiva Rede Neural Artificial Paraconsistente. A partir da Rede Neural Artificial Paraconsistente correspondente ao sinal em questão, pode-se estudá-lo de uma forma interpretativa, com menor acumulo de dados e tratamentos estatísticos do que com as ferramentas tradicionais. O SIAPF passa a ser mais uma ferramenta para análise de produção de fala, viabilizando a criação de novas formas de medidas quantitativas e normatizadas para os Formantes da Fala. / Currently, many diferent techniques are developing for the analysis identification and recognition of speech. The most efficient are shown mathematically complicated, based on analysis statistical of data, that actually makes systems very slow, creating the nessecity for a great amount of data for samples. The aim of this work is to present the possibility of the use of Paraconsistent Artificial Neural Network Structures, in the learnig and recognition of speech signals, independent of statistical analysis, or the number of samples. Starting from a pilot study, the need of a deep study of the Formants of Phones was identified. With the Formants of Phones, a system capable to recognize sounds produced in any language, through conbinations of the production of sounds and simultaneous emission of a group of Formants was created. A possible solution for the identification of Formants of Phones proposed in this work is the creation of Phonic Constellation concept, witch uses the recognition of combinations of identified mathematical characteristcs in the resoant signal of speech. As a form of recognizing these Constellation, this work present the Paraconsistent Artificial Neural Network, efficient in the recognition of patterns for proximity and with capacity to process contractory and paracomplet signals. To develop this solution a Computer Program (System of Analysis of the Production of Speech - SIAPF) capable to process the necessary calculations of a speech signal, generating its Phonic Constelattion and its respective Paraconsistent Artificial Neural Network was created. The subject signal can be studied in an interpretative way using the Paraconsistent Artificial Neural Network with a minimal accumulation of data and statistical calculations compared to traditional tools. The SIAPF is another new tool for analysis of speech production, creating new ways for quantitative and standard measures of Formants of Speech.

O presente trabalho se debruça sobre os elementos da cultura digital de nossos dias, que têm se tornado objetos presentes em toda a vida social, em suas mais diferentes esferas os telefones celulares. O intuito é descrever e analisar alguns dos fenômenos imbricados na construção desta cadeia de conectividade da qual celulares e todos nós, enquanto usuários, fazemos parte. Para tanto, o esforço empreendido foi o de compreender como estes objetos se inserem e compõem um amplo arranjo sociotécnico no qual circulam discursos, saberes, práticas, relações, circustâncias e eventos, envolvendo o mercado, os produtores, as inovações tencológicas de um lado e, consumidores e suas diversas práticas de uso e formas de vida, de outro. Demonstra-se como que toda esta rede não escapa aos eixos do mercado, pelo contrário, engloba-os e os faz crescer e os celulares constituem elementos agenciadores deste processo à medida em que fazem as próprias vidas de seus usuários circular pelas infovias, alterando os regimes de relações que envolvem o contato com o outros, as formas de ser estar no mundo, as formas de controle e os regimes de subjetivação. A principal contribuição deste estudo é, assim, mostrar que se está diante de novos vetores de poder que incidem diretamente sobre a gestão das vidas de cada um, às formas de uso do tempo, constituição de afetos, contribuindo, igualmente para dar novos contornos aos processos de geração de valor, cada vez mais atrelados aos momentos de consumo. Em suma, entender quais novas roupagens de questões, caras à teoria social, tais como governamentalidade e sociedade do controle entram em jogo, a partir do momento em que este objeto torna-se onipresente nas práticas sociais e de que forma estas questões se atualizam, é o que consistiu na tarefa primordial deste trabalho / This thesis focuses on one representative element of the current digital culture, which has become present in all social life in its different spheres the mobile phone. Our aim is to describe and analyze some of the overlapping phenomena in the construction of this connectivity chain to which mobile phones and we, as users, belong. To this end, the effort undertaken was to understand how these artifacts are inserted and comprise a broad socio-technical arrangement in which discourses, knowledge, practices, relationships, circumstances and events flow, involving the market, the producers, the technological innovations on one side and the consumers, and their various daily use practices and life habits on the other. We try to show how this whole network does not escape to the axes of the market, by contrast, it embraces and makes them grow and how the mobile phones are important elements of this process because they made the lives of its users move through the networks flows, changing, by this way, the relationships that involve the contact with the other, the ways of being in the world, the control practices and the regimes of subjectivity. The main contribution of this study is thus to show that one is facing new vectors of power that directly affect the management of each other\'s lives, the time use forms, the constitution of affects, contributing also to give new dimensions to processes of value creation, which are increasingly tied to consumption occasions. In short, to understand how new social issues, come into play, from the time that this artifacts become ubiquitous in social practices and how these are updated in terms of governmentality and social control is the primary task of this work

This thesis investigates embedded databases and graphical interfaces for the MicroBaseJ project. The project aim is the development of an integrated database and GUI user interface for a typical 3G, or 2.5G, mobile phone with Java MIDP2 capability. This includes methods for data acquisition, mobile data and information communication, data management, and remote user interface. Support of phone delivered informatics will require integrated server and networking infrastructure research and development to support effective and timely delivery of data for incorporation in mobile device-based informatics applications. A key research and development (R&D) challenge is to support effective and timely delivery of data for incorporation in mobile device-based informatics applications. Another important aspect of the project is determining how to develop efficient graphics for the small mobile screen. The research investigates and analyses the architecture of a mobile monitoring system. The project developed a generic solution that can be implemented in a number of commercial sectors, such as horticulture, building management and pollution/water management. The developed concept is tested using data relevant to the horticultural area of application. The system also addresses the main issues related to mobile monitoring, including real-time response, data integrity, solution cost, graphical presentation, and persistent storage capabilities of modern mobile devices. Four embedded databases based on J2ME have been investigated. Two of the four have been evaluated and analysed. The Insert function, Sequence Search, and Random Search of Perst List and RMS (Record Management System) databases have been tested. The size of the processed data was limited to 20,000 records when using the wireless toolkit simulator, and 11,000 records when using a mobile phone. Perst Lite reflects good performance and has out-performed RMS in all tests. User interface software such as J2ME Polish for mobile phones has been investigated. Custom J2ME class for graphical interface is developed. This provides the graphical presentation of the data collected from the sensors; including temperature, wind speed, wind direction, moisture, and leaf wetness. The graphical interface, bar charts, and line charts with trace ball for collected data have been designed and implemented. The embedded database performance and project performance have been investigated and analysed. The performances of Perst Lite and RMS are evaluated in terms of the insert, sequence search, and random search functions based on simulation and real devices. The record numbers vary from 1,000 to 20,000. The project performance contains data receiving and storage, and data presentation and configuration. The performance of data storage and configuration can be negated due to the running mode and the response time. Thus, data presenting performance is the key focus in this project. This performance was divided into the categories of initial, data search, data selection, and charting. The initial performance includes the initialisation of the project parameters, and the reaching of the welcome interface. Data search performance refers to the retrieval of the specified data from the embedded database, measured on 48 data points, which only can be presented on the mobile screen from the retrieved data. These four performance types are measured in thousands of record numbers, varying from 1,000 to 18,000 record numbers, with the retrieved data range varying from 1 day to 30 days.

La sonie, intensité subjective d'un son est un paramètre psychoacoustique primordial dans l'évaluation de la gêne et dans les études sur la qualité sonore. Il existe à l'heure actuelle des modèles qui estiment bien la sonie de sons stationnaires, tels ceux de Zwicker (1958) et de Moore et coll. (1997). D'autres modèles (Zwicker et Fastl (1999) et Glasberg et Moore (2002)) existent pour calculer la sonie en fonction du temps mais présentent certaines limites pour donner la sonie globale de sons non stationnaires et en particulier de sons impulsionnels. Le but de ce travail de thèse est d'étudier la sonie de sons impulsionnels afin de pouvoir en proposer un estimateur pour éviter de mettre en œuvre des tests psychoacoustiques longs et onéreux, seul moyen aujourd'hui de connaître précisément la sonie de tels sons. L'originalité de ce travail a été de s'intéresser à des sons impulsionnels possédant une attaque rapide, pas de palier et une décroissance de forme exponentielle. Le choix de ces sons est basé sur l'observation de sons naturels que nous avons pu recenser dans notre environnement sonore. Un premier algorithme (ESI) a été proposé pour calculer la sonie à partir de caractéristiques physiques du signal telles que l'énergie et le temps de descente. Nous avons déterminé les lignes isosoniques, les fonctions de sonie et l'intégration temporelle de sons impulsionnels pour, non seulement déterminer les relations entre la sonie et les paramètres physiques du signal (fréquence, niveau et durée), mais aussi tester les modèles et en déterminer les domaines d'application. Les résultats de nos recherches étant en partie dédiés au domaine industriel et à la métrologie, nous nous sommes principalement intéressés au niveau d'isosonie, exprimé en phones. En effet, cette unité est plus pratique car elle est plus proche du niveau de pression, exprimé en dB SPL ou en dB(A), utilisé plus fréquemment. Nous avons donc déterminé la méthode de mesure du niveau d'isosonie la mieux adaptée à nos types de sons. Ainsi, la méthode d'ajustement a été retenue parmi quatre autres méthodes, pour sa fiabilité, sa stabilité et sa rapidité. Toutes ces données ont contribuées à déterminer des domaines d'application et des limites des modèles de sonie déjà proposés et de notre nouvel estimateur ainsi qu'à proposer un nouvel indice (Nimp), calculé à partir du modèle de Zwicker et Fastl (1999), pour donner une première approximation du niveau d'isosonie de sons impulsionnels.

<p>This graduation paper treats e-mobbing via the different communication medias of the mobile phone. The purpose of the research has been to describe student’s experience of e-mobbing via the mobile phone’s different integrated functions as phone calls, sms, mms and e-mail.</p><p>In this poll investigation asked 100 students of 15-20 years of age.</p><p>The interviews made have shown that girls are more exposed to e-mobbing, e.g. indirect mobbing. In my research it is possible to see that girls are more exposed than boys to threats of violence via sms, the spreading of rumours and the danger of being called different things.</p><p>It is also possible to see in the result of the interviews that the mobber wants to experience power, something which is not unusual in all types of mobbing. The mobber feels safe and unreachable, while he or she can reach the victim at any time possible. This is something which is mentioned in the interviews by the young themselves. It is possible to see clearly that an indication of power and control is an important part in this type of mobbing.</p> / <p>Mitt examensarbete handlar om e-mobbning via mobiltelefonens olika kommunikationsmedium. Syftet med min undersökning är att beskriva skolungdomars erfarenheter av e-mobbning via mobiltelefonens olika integrerade funktioner såsom telefonsamtal, sms, mms och email.</p><p>I min enkätundersökning tillfrågades totalt 100 ungdomar i åldern 15-20 år.</p><p>Enkätintervjun har visat att flickorna är mer utsatta för e-mobbning d.v.s. indirekt mobbning.</p><p>I min undersökning kan man se att flickorna utsätts för sms mobbning i form av hot om våld, ryktesspridning och att de blir kallad för olika saker betydlig oftare än pojkarna.</p><p>Något som man även kan utläsa av enkätresultatet är att mobbaren vill känna makt vilket inte i sig något ovanligt beteende vid all typ av mobbning. I mobbning via mobiltelefon känner sig mobbaren säker och inte nåbar men han eller hon kan nå den mobbade när som helst.</p><p>Man kan se ett tydligt tecken på att maktstyrning och kontroll är en viktig ingrediens i denna typ av mobbning.</p>

This graduation paper treats e-mobbing via the different communication medias of the mobile phone. The purpose of the research has been to describe student’s experience of e-mobbing via the mobile phone’s different integrated functions as phone calls, sms, mms and e-mail. In this poll investigation asked 100 students of 15-20 years of age. The interviews made have shown that girls are more exposed to e-mobbing, e.g. indirect mobbing. In my research it is possible to see that girls are more exposed than boys to threats of violence via sms, the spreading of rumours and the danger of being called different things. It is also possible to see in the result of the interviews that the mobber wants to experience power, something which is not unusual in all types of mobbing. The mobber feels safe and unreachable, while he or she can reach the victim at any time possible. This is something which is mentioned in the interviews by the young themselves. It is possible to see clearly that an indication of power and control is an important part in this type of mobbing. / Mitt examensarbete handlar om e-mobbning via mobiltelefonens olika kommunikationsmedium. Syftet med min undersökning är att beskriva skolungdomars erfarenheter av e-mobbning via mobiltelefonens olika integrerade funktioner såsom telefonsamtal, sms, mms och email. I min enkätundersökning tillfrågades totalt 100 ungdomar i åldern 15-20 år. Enkätintervjun har visat att flickorna är mer utsatta för e-mobbning d.v.s. indirekt mobbning. I min undersökning kan man se att flickorna utsätts för sms mobbning i form av hot om våld, ryktesspridning och att de blir kallad för olika saker betydlig oftare än pojkarna. Något som man även kan utläsa av enkätresultatet är att mobbaren vill känna makt vilket inte i sig något ovanligt beteende vid all typ av mobbning. I mobbning via mobiltelefon känner sig mobbaren säker och inte nåbar men han eller hon kan nå den mobbade när som helst. Man kan se ett tydligt tecken på att maktstyrning och kontroll är en viktig ingrediens i denna typ av mobbning.

CyborGlogs are lifelong log files of personal experiences that are captured without conscious thought or effort. By creating cyborglogs on a continuous basis, we can enable various novel applications where the lifelong records are used as memory aids or for personal safety. This thesis presents the development of a mobile application that provides the tools to instantly capture, archive, recall, and share our personal experiences on widely available cameraphones. To achieve this goal, a client-server computational framework is designed and implemented to support real-time interaction among the users. Three fully functional prototypes supporting three major mobile platforms (J2ME, Symbian, and iPhone) are presented to show the feasibility and flexibility of this framework. Finally, this thesis shows an early prototype which demonstrates the idea of mediated reality on cameraphones using various integrated sensors. This prototype explores the possibilities of developing truly intelligent wearable applications on mobile devices in the future.

CyborGlogs are lifelong log files of personal experiences that are captured without conscious thought or effort. By creating cyborglogs on a continuous basis, we can enable various novel applications where the lifelong records are used as memory aids or for personal safety. This thesis presents the development of a mobile application that provides the tools to instantly capture, archive, recall, and share our personal experiences on widely available cameraphones. To achieve this goal, a client-server computational framework is designed and implemented to support real-time interaction among the users. Three fully functional prototypes supporting three major mobile platforms (J2ME, Symbian, and iPhone) are presented to show the feasibility and flexibility of this framework. Finally, this thesis shows an early prototype which demonstrates the idea of mediated reality on cameraphones using various integrated sensors. This prototype explores the possibilities of developing truly intelligent wearable applications on mobile devices in the future.

As the number and diversity of applications available to mobile users increases, there is an increasing need for developers, network service providers, and users to understand how users perceive the network performance of these applications. MySpeedTest is a measurement tool that actively probes the network to determine not only TCP throughput and round trip time, but also the proximity to popular content providers, IP packet delay variation, and loss. It also records other metadata that could affect user experience, such as signal strength, service provider, connection type, battery state, device type, manufacturer, time of day, and location. The tool also takes passive measurements of the applications installed on the device and the network usage of these applications. My SpeedTest is available on the Google Play Store and currently has 1300+ active users. This thesis presents the design and implementation of MySpeedTest as well as effect of metrics like latency and IP packet delay variation on performance.