Abstract

Smartphones are nowadays widely available and popular in first, second and third world countries. Nevertheless, their connectivity is limited to GPRS/UMTS/LTE connections with small monthly data plans even if the devices are nearby. Local communication options such as Bluetooth or NFC on the other hand only provide very poor data rates. Future applications envision smartphones and tablets as main working and leisure devices. Envisioning the upcoming trends on multimedia and working documents, file sizes are expected to grow further. In strong contrast to this, smartphone users are faced with very small data plans per month that they can use to communicate over the Internet. In maximum a few GB are available per month, while regularly 1 GB or much less mobile data traffic is available to smartphone users worldwide. Thus, the future data exchange between smartphones and tablets is very much limited through the current technology and business models. Even if the business models on wireless Internet plans wou...

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