Mobile Office Applications

Name: SPB RaoStudent Id: 59407Rspbrao@tml.hut.fi

Outline Background What are MOAs? Why are MOAs? Platform & Application Layer of MITA Nokia’s Series 90 office solutions Example implementations of MOAs Conclusions

Background Mobile world challenge

Consumers will use different types of devices to access different services through different network mediums

Consumer interaction mode is through messaging, browsing and rich call

Network environments Mobile networks, the Internet and Intranet Unified service networks

Identity and Authentication

What are MOAs ? Mobile Office Applications:

Standalone applications for organizing office data

word, excel etc... Applications in which remote office

data is accessed through mobile networks

calendar, email, contacts etc...

Why are MOAs ? Efficient time utilization while on

the move Easy sharing of office data

irrespective of being in different locations

Anytime anywhere presence Provides the luxury of device

independent access

Platform Layer of MITA Architecture of symbian OS

BaseUser Library, file server, kernel, device driver

SecurityCryptography, certificate management

TelephonyGSM, GPRS, EDGE, CDMA,

CDMA2000

MultimediaImages, sounds and graphics

Communications InfrastructureTCP, IPV4&V6, HTTP and WAP stack

Personal Area Networkingbluetooth, infrared, USB

Application FrameworkGUI framework, text and graphical utilities

Application enginesOffice, SyncML

MessagingSMS, EMS, MMS Java (KVM/Personal Java)

MIDP JavaPhone

Symbian’s application suite Communications applications

email, fax, WAP and web browsing Personal Informaiton Management

Applications: contacts, calendar, world map and alarm

Office applications: word, spreadsheet, presentation viewer,

database and spell checker Connectivity:

PC connect, server synch., file conversion and application installation

Mobile Internet Business Architecture

ConsumptionTerminal

Application Layer

Mobile Internet Layer

Platform Layer

ConnectionNetwork

Application Layer

Mobile Internet Layer

Platform Layer

ContentServer

Application Layer

Mobile Internet Layer

Platform Layer

Application Layer of MITA (1/2) Browsing, Messaging and Rich call

are the three main interaction modes in MITA

Future Mobile Browsing: Service Discovery and Installation New XML content types Java Semantic Web

Application Layer of MITA (2/2) Messaging:

Message Data Model Messaging entities Messaging in MITA (email application)

Rich Call: Application and display sharing during a call File transfer during a call Rich call in MITA (Phone application)

Nokia Series 90 office solutions (1/2) Nokia Series 90

The developer platform for series 90 Developer platform technologies Series 90 devices

The platform features UI, Skin, Desktop, Telephony, messaging,

Internet Browser, Personal Information Management

Calendar, To-do, Contacts

Nokia Series 90 office solutions (2/2) Two options for creating resident

applications Development environment is symbian

7.0 Using C++ Using Java

Wireless messaging API, Mobile media API, bluetooth API are the set of available SDKs

Data Synchronization in MOAs(1/3) SyncML DS protocol is an open

industry specification It is the common language based on XML Supports variety of transport protocols It is based on the server/client

architecture Data Synchronization between

different devices, regardless of vendor, OS and connection network

Data Synchronization in MOAs(2/3)

SyncML server handles conflicting entries and updates data

SyncML Server

Remote Server

Data Synchronization in MOAs(3/3) Data synchronization web service

enables setting of two versions of data Synchronization service is content-

agnostic Example usages: calendar, contact

book Provides benefits such as back up for

critical data, sharing between different devices

Support for Content formats(1/2) Nokia 9210i

Video formats: RA7, RA8, RV7 and RV8 Email: supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4

protocols Audio formats: WAV, AU, WVE Symbian Word Microsoft Excel: 2/3/4/5/7/97/98/2000 XLS,

XLC

Support for Content formats(2/2) Microsoft PowerPoint: 3/4/7/97/98/2000

PPT, POT, PPS Microsoft Word:

1/2/3/4/5/6/7/97/98/2000 DOC Internet Hyper Text Markup Language:

HTML, HTM Rich Text Format: RTF

Support for Content formats(3/3) Nokia 7700

Video formats: realmedia, MPEG-4 Audio formats: MP3, AAC, RealAudio 7

and 8, WAV and MIDI Email: supports SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 Browsing: HTML, XHTML with Opera

browser Office applications: word, sheet,

presentation viewer

File conversion support In Nokia 9210i

Symbian OS Rich Text Format, Text (MS-DOS), Text (Windows ANSI), Word 6.0,95, Word 97, Word 2000

Symbian OS MS Excel 5.0, 95, MS Excel 97, MS Excel 2000

Example implementations of MOAs (1/2) Nokia 9210i

Office the word processor application to write and edit text documents the spreadsheet application data can be stored in a workbook

Each workbook contains at least one worksheet A workbook can also contain chartsheets, which are spreadsheet

documents containing charts based on data from a worksheet the presentation viewer application can be used to view MS

PowerPoint presentations it can be forwarded as a fax, by email, or via infrared

Example implementations of MOAs (2/2) Nokia 7700

Office the data input is done through the virtual

keypad or through the touch screen to the word processor application

it includes the PDA functionality such as to-do list, calendar and contact lists

it is equipped with presentation viewer to view power point presentations

Conclusions Mobile Office Applications provide true mobility for

data and efficiency in data management Data synchronization is possible through SyncML

DS Series 90 provides means to develop media

applications as well as office applications PDA functionality equipped mobile phones Wide range of PC Office application formats are

supported Example implementations Nokia 9210i and Nokia

7700 mobile phones

References www.nokia.com www.forum.nokia.com MITA vol1, vol2 and vol3