M3, Task 6, Unit 14

Many campaigns have been put in place to tackle the social impacts of mobile devices. Like having viral ads to try and get people to interact with others in person more, to TV ads to help awareness about rape connected to social networks.

Recent laws have been introduced to help prevent incidents involving rape and hacking or getting hacked. Laws like this have only been introduced within the last ten years as there was no need of them before. 

Social networking is done a lot at work places, that can severely reduce how well people work and the amount of work that gets done. To resolve this dilemma, companies put their own policies into place, this can vary from certain times people can access social networking like in lunch breaks, to no social networking at all in the work place. Each company can have different policies.

This can be put into place in schools, with consequences for phones being out at times which the schools policy forbids, their phone can be confiscated. These policies are a good way to combat how much phones and social networking can affect a workplace or school.

The data protection act allows for legitimacy and safety of people's and businesses' data whether that be confidential or public with copyright restrictions. This helps to prevent fraud and theft of data which could then be used for blackmail, personal gain, exploitation or fraud.

D2, Task 4, Unit 14

P7: "To send contact information from your phone (Info like your mobile number) to another phone, first you go into your phone's settings and find something like my profile, my number or this phone. Or you could get the number from a person who has your number. 
Add the number and other contact info into a text, whether you type it in or copy and paste (an ability not many phones have) and finally send tat to the person's phone who you want it to be sent to. Or, if your phone has a direct "send to contact" feature for your data, you can select that."

I used this protocol as it allows for quick and easy access to your contact information from your phone. Texting the information on to the recipient is a quick and for the most part safe way of exchanging contact details over long distances. However most phones do not have integrated anti virus software. This means that undetected viruses can be transferred via text, this could then infect the recipients phone. A safer way to exchange contact details is via desktop or laptop, this is because they have build it firewalls and additional anti virus software such as Norton or Macafee can be used to scan emails for legitimacy or any possible viruses. If this were to e used to exchange contact info then you could still find the initial information via the phone's settings.

D1, Task 1, Unit 14

A feature of all the devices in P2 have battery charge lasting for different amounts of time.
hp pavillion g6: up to 4-5 hours
samsung galaxy nexus: up to 31 hours
MP3 player: up to 22 hours

Having a long battery charge is very good as it means that the device doesn't require charging as often making it more practical to use.
Another feature is memory capacity, which varies because of price and type of storage on the device. For example, the mp3 player has 2GB memory because it costs £31.95 and stores mp3 sound files which take up very little memory. The hp pavillion g6 has hard drive storage of 750GB because it has to store games with online capabilities, video, music, pictures, applications and more. Meaning it has to have a very large amount of memory. If a device is low on existing memory, it performs badly compared to if it had more memory left. The mp3 player has little memory so it cannot store a large amount even if what it does store uses minimal memory.