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title: "what is mobile computing?"  
description: "what is mobile computing?"  
author: "Rajesh Goswami"  
published: 2010-10-19  
updated: 2020-09-18  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/55/what-is-mobile-computing  
category: "mobile development"  
tags: ["mobile development"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# what is mobile computing?

Mobile computing has three aspects: mobile communication, mobile hardware and mobile software. The first aspect addresses communication issues in ad-hoc and infrastructure networks as well as communication properties, protocols, data formats and concrete technologies. The second aspect focusses on the hardware, i.e. mobile devices or device components. The third aspect deals with the characteristics and requirements of mobile applications.\
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## Answers

### Answer by Amit Singh

**Mobile Computing**\
A technology that allows transmission of data, via a computer, without having to be connected to a fixed physical link.\
Mobile voice communication is widely established throughout the world and has had a very rapid increase in the number of subscribers to the various cellular networks over the last few years. An extension of this technology is the ability to send and receive data across these cellular networks. This is the principle of mobile computing.

### Answer by Pushpendra Singh

Mobile computing has three aspects: mobile communication, mobile hardware and mobile software. The first aspect addresses communication issues in ad-hoc and infrastructure networks as well as communication properties, protocols, data formats and concrete technologies. The second aspect focusses on the hardware, i.e. mobile devices or device components. The third aspect deals with the characteristics and requirements of mobile applications.\
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