Information Appliances Versus Smart Devices
Although smart devices partially overlap in definition with specific types of appliance such as Information appliances, Smart Devices are characterised and differ in several key ways. First, Smart Devices in general can take a much wider range of form-factors than appliances. Second, Smart Devices support the ubiquitous computing properties. Third information appliances focus on remote interaction with computing environments that tend to be personalised whereas Smart Devices can also focus heavily on impersonal physical world interaction. Four, the term appliance generally implies that devices are task specific and under the control of some embedded system or application specific operating system, whereas Smart Devices may support multiple tasks, e.g., a mobile phone can act as a phone but also as a games console, music player, camera, etc.
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