Mobile Devices and Support

Kathy BoockDiane Jachimowicz

Agenda

• Purchasing a device• Mobile Device Center website• Android devices• iPad• Questions• Hands-on Android devices

PURCHASING A DEVICE

Personal plans

• Where will I use the phone?• How much will I use it?• How much will it cost?

Primary considerations

• Coverage• Cost• Minutes• Plan type

• Data plan• Contract• Device availability• International

travel

Verizon Wireless Employee Discount

• 18% business discount• Applies to single line plans and first

line only of family share plans• Available from University’s Verizon

representative or a Verizon storefront

University plans

• Where will I use the phone?• Primary considerations– Coverage– Cost– Device availability– International travel

Application for wireless service

www.scranton.edu/its/mobiledevices

MOBILE DEVICE CENTER

ANDROID AND IPAD

Device sales

Support priorities

• Phone• Email• Calendar• Text• Backup

• Documents, spreadsheets, presentations

• Web browsing• GPS navigation

DROID does…

DIFFERENT!• Google• Open platform, large Android

Market– Larger than Palm, Blackberry,

Windows Mobile– Open, unlike Apple’s App Store

Device security

• Credit card transactions in Android Market

• All devices – 4 digit PIN or pattern• Applications – malware protection,

backup, missing device (locate or wipe)

• Password vault

QUESTIONS?