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Design Pattern Change Study (200 words summary of team design study)

Our team members:

Team topic: Hardware for the mobile phone market

Collection:

  • Consumer magazines (mobile phone market is multi-$B industry)
  • Importantly, create own survey to canvass mobile phone users
  • Industry sales product histories

Decompile:

  • Rating results
  • Features: screen size, external storage, video, camera, processors, input modalities, networks

Extract:

  • Primary mobile phone uses: voice, text, video, camera, e-mail?, calendaring apps, etc.
  • U/I preferences

Statistics:

  • Available features on a per device (or device class) basis
  • Most popular features, most popular uses

Differences:

  • What has changed?
  • What hardware capabilities can be anticipated to be needed/desired in the future?
  • What new software capabilities may result from new hardware in the future?