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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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When electrical engineers talk about a digitizer, they refer to a component

that transforms analog signals into digital ones; that is to say, it digitizes

them. That’s not what we techs talk about when discussing digitizers on

mobile devices. A digitizer refers to the component that provides the “touch”

part of a touchscreen. When your finger contacts a touchscreen, the

digitizer’s fine grid of sensors under the glass detects your finger and signals

the OS its location on the grid. As with modern trackpads, you can use one or

more fingers to interact with most touchscreens.

EXAM TIP The CompTIA A+ 1001 exam objectives mention touchscreen

configuration as something you do on a laptop or mobile device. While this

might be a thing on laptops like the Microsoft Surface, it doesn’t really apply

to mobile devices at all.

Global Positioning System

One major feature of mobile devices is the ability to track the device’s

location through GPS, cellular, or Wi-Fi connections. Users rely on location

services to conveniently find things near them, such as stores and restaurants,

or to determine when their Uber driver will show up. This section will

discuss some of what a mobile device such as a smartphone can do with GPS

capability, followed by a look at standalone GPS devices, and privacy

concerns associated with location tracking.

A great example of how smartphones can use GPS is the traffic and

navigation app Waze (see Figure 24-12). Waze not only navigates, but its

crowd-sourced data collection provides you with amazing real-time

knowledge of the road ahead.

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