This article by a technical marketing engineer in Intel's Software Solutions Group introduces Intel's Mobile Application Architecture Guide, which was created to help application developers understand the issues that are arising through the growing proliferation of wireless mobile computing devices.

According to Intel, users expect the same functionality from applications running on their mobile devices whether they are offline or connected to a network. They expect applications to deal gracefully with intermittent network connections and bandwidth changes and to efficiently accommodate roaming. And they expect power usage to be managed to maximize battery life without degrading performance. These expectations present a new set of challenges to application developers.

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