I've recently joined a company who specialize in the mobile telecommunication domain. I'm encountering a lot of jargons, and I'm feeling a bit lost in most of the conversations. Although I'm quickly searching for the new terms on the web and learning stuff on the job, I would like to read an introductory book that will take me through the basics of the mobile world. Thanks for your recommendations!
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I used this one when started programming with mobiles: Mobile phone programming and its application to wireless networking By Frank H. P. Fitzek, Frank Reichert
Its a pretty good one, lots of information covering from mobile networks architectures, to many languages and platforms avaible for development.
eMgz
2010-05-10 15:55:01
@eMgz: Thanks for the suggestion. I will check this out, too.
artknish
2010-05-15 10:56:18
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Until recently, I worked in mobile telecoms writing backend infrastructure code, mainly for SMS.
For us, the 3GPP documents were the go-to, but this book has also been extremely useful on occasion: Signaling System No. 7 (SS7/C7): Protocol, Architecture, and Services
Dan
2010-05-14 17:29:43
@Dan: I've started reading SS7 by Travis Rusell as Signaling System No. 7 (SS7/C7): Protocol, Architecture, and Services mentioned above is not available in India. But it looks like SS7 is a good starting point.
artknish
2010-05-15 10:51:37
I'm not familiar with that one. Its a pity about the cisco book, I found it quite useful. Good luck anyway!
Dan
2010-05-15 13:03:34
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I found this excellent book called Mobile Design and Developement. It doesn't get too technical at all and it was actually a pretty fun read.
I liked it because it paid lots of attention on the history of Mobile phones, the different "eras" we have gone through (we're on the smartphone era), it had lots of stats on usage information, and it there were very insightful instructions on how to appeal to different markets through the design of your apps.
Great book!
Here's a link to some of the reviews on amazon.
Anton
2010-05-14 20:21:28