Mobile Computing Books

Some of the examples in the book are pretty good but for the most part it jumps from subject to subject. Definately not good for beginners and an experienced J2ME programmer would probably find this book to be way off track.

Please dont buy this book.I spent a long time trying to make one of its projects work.The author is not at all clear about what they want to say.one of the worst books on the matket.please dont buy this book.

If you are buying this book hoping to find worthwhile discussion and insight on strategy and techniques for creating and deploying mobile learning-solutions, look elsewhere.

If on the other hand you know nothing about MP3 players, GPS, PDAs and camcorders, and would like a light-weight technology primer heavily padded out with unnecessary screenshots and interviews, this book is definitely for you.

The book is cooking together information about WLAN, 802.11, 802.16, Bluetooth, 802.15, GPRS, UMTS and so forth. It gives a rudimentary overview of mostly the MAC of each standard (and sometimes also PHY and some higher layer protocols), especially with respect to available QoS mechanisms.

Unfortunately, the book only scratches on the surface of each standard. It fails to give the big picture, instead it provides a mosaic of gory details. Sometimes, the pieces selected for presentation seems to be randomly selecled.

The book describes "what" is in the standard (at least some pieces of it) but it fails to explain "why" things are like they are. The reason might be that the authors have not aquired a fundamental understanding of each of the standards presented. (It might be useful as a strange kind of manual, but not at all as a tutorial of any kind.)

Finally, the book needs editing. It is frustrating with chopped figures, strange font policies for headings, and so forth.

The book deserves a star because the last pages of Ch.2 and most of Ch. 3. provided a good overview of QoS that laid a basis for the rest of the book. Also, it must have been quite much work for the authors to gather together all this (incomplete pieces of) information from various standards.