Contemporary Issues in the Interdisciplinary Research: Smartphone Computing Research

Wen-Chen Hu, Benu Bensal, Naima Kaabouch

Smartphones have become extremely popular in these days. People use smartphones to perform their daily activities like making phone calls, sending short messages, connecting with others, and browsing the mobile Internet. Although smartphones are indispensable devices, people are not familiar with how they are made of, how they function, and how capable they could be. It is because smartphones are intrinsically complicated and smartphone computing is related to several separate subjects such as mobile computing, mobile data management, and mobile payment and security. This article tries to fill the gap by giving an insight on smartphones including four themes: (i) smartphone status, which gives the current status of smartphones, (ii) smartphone anatomy, which shows the internal structures of smartphones, (iii) smartphone computing, which introduces smartphone app development, and (iv) current issues of smartphone computing research. Finally, further information for more smartphone-computing research will also be given.

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