Mobile Commerce Devices: Internet-Enabled Mobile Handheld Devices

摘要

The emerging wireless and mobile networks have extended electronic commerce to another research and application area: mobile commerce. Internet-enabled mobile handheld devices are one of the core components of mobile commerce systems, as they are needed for mobile users to directly interact with mobile commerce applications. Understanding the devices and knowing their functions and capabilities is vital for the success of mobile commerce applications. A handheld device relies on a wide range of disciplines and technologies for its success. To facilitate the understanding, this paper broke down the functions of a handheld device into six major components, which can be summarized as follows: