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Final Individual Activity Report

HiggsBoson — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:12:24 +0000

Individual Activity Report
Week 16
For: J. Tirrell
From: Scott Stella; Group 7

This week we, obviously, finished up the white paper final draft. I worked on changing the layout a little. The column width was increased for the right-side column and decreased for the left-side. This allowed space specifically for the hardware table and graphic for each phone. I added footers as well to replace the MS graphic and text box that supplied the line and page number at the bottom of the page. Finally, I edited and added to the references and added in citations.

Smartphones-White Paper, Final Draft

HiggsBoson — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:34:22 +0000

This is full of win.

Individual Activity Report 4

HiggsBoson — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:56:25 +0000

Date: April 26, 2009
To: J. Tirrell
From: Scott Stella, Group 7
Subject: Individual Activity Report 4

Number 3

HiggsBoson — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:07:18 +0000

Individual Activity Report-Scott Stella
Week 14
For: J. Tirrell

This week was totally messed up for me. I didn't get much in on time (but everything was eventually posted). Senior design is eating up 98.72% of my time-our communication dipped a bit this week, likely as a result of other people having similar issues with end-semester projects.

Blackberry Storm Research (3)

HiggsBoson — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:40:04 +0000

Blackberry Storm by Verizon:

The cost of this phone without a contract is $599.99 (depending on source) and with a 2 year contract with Verizon it is $199.99.
A rundown of the price:
Hardware: $199.88
Cheapest voice plan (only sold combined with data plan): $80
SMS plan: $5 for 250 messages
Price over two years: $2239.99

G1 Research (2)

HiggsBoson — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:21:06 +0000

G1 Phone from Tmobile, officially introduced as the HTC Dream:

Cost of the phone: The device itself will cost $179.99 and the unlimited 3G data transfer will be an additional $25/month along with any normal calling plan costs or an additional $35/month with unlimited messaging. http://www.t-mobileg1.com/

iPhone Research (1)

HiggsBoson — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:52:04 +0000

Apple iPhone:

I've made a systematic method of presenting the research.

WhitePaper:PDAs

HiggsBoson — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:19:20 +0000

Oh, crap, this is late-totally misread the calendar...

Please don't mark my group-mates off for not replying to this for the assignment as I'm just posting it now.

The images didn't show up when I printed to PDF for some reason, but there are supposed to be graphics there that are translucent-I made text boxes that explain this.

Ethics, Big Picture...

HiggsBoson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:58:38 +0000

Ethics is one of, if not the most, interesting topics ever. We are almost constantly faced with an ethical issue-most of the time we aren't even aware of it. Anyone that has or currently watches Star Trek should understand the importance of ethical consideration to its fullest extent, that is to say something like the text has outlined as the "Intertwined Ethical System". It is easy to see that while the morals and/or values are satisfied from one perspective they are often in conflict with other perspectives-hence the ethical dilemma.

Individual Report Week 13

HiggsBoson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:52:35 +0000

Individual Work Blog
Date: April 12, 2009
To: Professor Tirrell
From: Scott Stella, Group 7
Subject: Individual Activity Report 2

This report is the summary of the progress toward the White Paper project, starting from last Sunday (April 6) to today (April 12).

This week we spent some time brainstorming topics for research and deciding who would research which topic(s). I will be handling research for the "usability" and "reliability" topics for the PDA white paper.