Blog posts tagged with 'cellphone'


08 Apr 2008 06:45 PM EDT

Use of the Citrix ICA client on mobile devices that have VGA resolution  or larger, or companion devices such as the Celio Redfly changes the game a bit when using the Citrix ICA client to connect to full Win32 applications delivered by Citrix Xenapp.  The increased resolution can leverage some configuration changes on the ICA client to get more optimal usage.  Below are some tweaks that you can do to get a more "Nirvana" like experience with such devices.  This setting was used in the demo blog entries previously posted. 
Most Win32 applications are usable at a VGA 640x480 resolution, so I recommend running ICA in full screen mode on mobile devices that support VGA resolution.  This allows the user to get rid of the program bar at the top of the screen and the navigation tool bar at the bottom of the ICA client.  Comparison pictures below (Note: screen clarity is degraded in the below screen shots, native screen is clear).  Caution, when you run in full screen mode, you will not have access to the local keyboard button, thus if you device does not have a QWERTY keyboard, you should have a Bluetooth keyboard connected.  



 HP iPaq 210 running ICA connection to SAP Enterprise Portal without the Full Screen option set.  Notice the screen space that is lost at the top and bottom of the screen. 


HP iPaq 210 running ICA connection to SAP Enterprise Portal with the Full Screen option set.  This allows you to leverage the full resolution of the device. 

To set the Full Screen option, simply follow the steps below.  Note that this is a global option and all of the apps you launch will come up in Full Screen mode.  

In the Programs area, start "ICA Client":
  

This should launch the ICA Client UI into your browser.

Select "Edit Global Settings" from this screen:  

Select "Edit Preferences" on the next page:

  

Scroll down to the "Enable Full Screen" check box and select it:

  

Scroll down to the bottom and select the "Save" button:

  

So if you have a mobile device that supports VGA 640x480 resolution or higher, you might try the above settings to get a better user experience.  Also, if you need to access another application on the mobile device while running a XenApp or XenDesktop session in Full Screen mode, you can always hit the Windows button on your device to pull up the devices start menu as shown below.


    
  

04 Apr 2008 02:51 AM EDT

So our search for the Nirvana Smartphone, or companion device at CTIA 2008 comes to an end with this post.  Our friends at i-mate have gotten us another device to put through the Hotel Acid Test.  In this case an i-mate Ultimate 9502.  I'll let you check out the full specs on their website, but this device packs VGA 640x480 resolution onto a 2.8" screen.  The clarity of the screen is very good, allowing you to clearly read the text, but again, some may need to pull out the reading glasses when not connected to an external monitor.  Stand-alone pics below: 



Pic 1: 9502's browser connected to Web Interface.

Pic 2: 9502 connected to a published desktop.

So how did it do in our Hotel Acid Test, not bad.  While the VGA resolution is a little tight on the native screen, it works well when output to a larger monitor.  As with the 6150, there is no noticeable latency when outputting the video to the TV.  The 9502 uses a RCA audo video cable to output to the external monitor, and it's not quite as clear as the 6150 which uses a VGA cable, but still very usable.  The icons are a little fuzzy, but I'm having not problem using this setup.  You also get a fade-in effect of the letters when typing, but again, not a big deal IMO.  Again, the network connection is 3G WWAN on ATT, and latency while using Word is not an issue at all, very responsive. 



Pic 3: 9502 connected to hotel TV using RCA audo/video cable. 

You are currently limited to the 640x480 resolution even when attached to an external monitor, which is fine for most Win32 apps, or desktops.  But it sure would be nice to have 1024x768 or larger functionality down the road.  The VGA 640x480 resolution could also be less than optimal if connecting to an overhead projector while giving a presentation. 

But in general, I'm liking this device as well.  Seems to have a good mix features that's making using it with XenApp for this post rather comfortable.  Very quick and responsive as I'm typing this post.  Maybe not the ultimate Nirvana Smartphone, but definitely a potential contender in today's market.  I can definitely see certain road warriors leaving their laptop at home if they have this in their pocket. 

Being this is my last post, I had to try my favorite test on a mobile device, viewing a 3D AutoDesk design from XenApp on a mobile device over ICA, you gotta love SpeedScreen!  We gotta get another video of this demo out, but this time running to an external monitor!  A still shot shown below. 



Pic 4: AutoDesk Design Review delivered by XenApp to the 9502 output to the hotel TV.  I cut the flash on this pic so the screen didn't wash out as much. 

Unfortunatley, you get not sense of the performance with a still pic.
Got some comments on this use case, give us your feedback. 

04 Apr 2008 12:48 AM EDT
posted by Adam Marano

As I stated in my previous post, there is no one Nirvana devicethat will fit everyone's tastes, so here's another twist on the topic. 

Impatica Showmate  is a device, call it a "puck", that you make a Bluetooth connection to from your smartphone using its Screen Projector software that you install on your smartphone.  A VGA cable is connected between the Showmate and the monitor you want to use.  You must register your mobile device with the Showmate.  Simply start the installed client on mobile device, enter in a few numbers from the bottom of the Showmate to register.  Then you just choose what registered Showmate device you want to connect to and hit select.  Your screen then pops up on the monitor the Showmate is connected to. 

 
Pic 1: Picture of the Showmate "puck", and VGA and USB power ports. 

Impatica was in the BlackBerry booth at CTIA showing their Showmate working with BlackBerry phones.  As part of the demo environment, they had the Rove Mobile Citrix Client on demo BB, and showed how they can remote the ICA presentation to an external monitor.  As you can see from the show pics below, they have some novel ideas about using this type of setup on portable LCD screens and such that you would find in police squad cars or utility trucks.  Great idea, especially when matched with the Rove Mobile Citrix Client to get access to all kinds of data from the secured data center. 

Pic 3: Michael Doyle, Impatica Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer showing the Impatica Showmate at CTIA 2008.

Pic 4: Showmate displaying a BlackBerry screen onto a portable LCD monitor inside a customer UI, mock of a law enforcement unit.  You can see the ICA session imbedded in the customer UI.

To stay consistent, I put the Impatica Showmate through the same hotel acid test I did with the other vendors.  I must note that the Windows Mobile Impatica ScreenProjector client that I'm using as I type this is still in Beta.  I used the Showmate with 2 devices, a Dell Axim X51v and an ATT 8525.  Latency on the X51v was very noticeable at times on the X51v, but response was good when using the 8525.  Note sure if this is related to old .vs. newer hardware/Bluetooth stacks, or the fact that the X51v has a larger resolution.  In general basic text entry like I'm doing now is pretty good.  Again, thanks to the Impatica team for getting us this beta to try.  I'm sure they still have some tuning tweaks up their sleeves before GA. 

The script is the same, in this case I'm using the Dell Axim X51v connected to the Showmate via Bluetooth to VGA out to the hotel's flat screen TV.  This picture below is an actual picture of the creation of the text for this blog using a XenApp connection to a published desktop, and running MS Word on that desktop over ICA.  This is where I stop and take the picture

Pic 5: Show mate connecting the Axim X51v running the ICA cleint to the hotel TV, and bluetooth mouse and keyboard.

The Showmate form factor is interesting in that you can see the device, or derivative of this device being imbedded in other devices to meet different goals, as shown in there show demo pciture above with a custom UI on the mountable LCD screen.  Imagine the use case of a utility working or law enforcement office having a mobile device that when in there car or truck is having applications and data delivered to them via XenApp or XenDesktop.  But once they exit their vehicle, they take the  mobile device with them and continue to have the same apps and data delivered to them, just on the native screen of the mobile device.  Whether it be a policeman on foot, or a utility working working on a transformer in the bucket of his boom truck.  A very interesting modular device approach IMO.  But at the same time, I can see road warriors carrying the Showmate with them to do presentations from their mobile phone, or use in the hotel as I am.  You can read more on their website, but they already have a lot of road warriors using their Showmate today.  They also have a product that compresses PowerPoint presentations, and then an optimized viewer to run the presentation from the mobile device.  You can get more details on this from their website.   

So does the Showmate pass the Hotel acid test?  Yes, I've been able to create this post using the Showmate, and my mobile device, and it does provide benefits described around a Nirvana Deviceuse case.  So it's definitely another option, with it's own twist on the Nirvana Device seach. 

Like this twist, tell us why or why not.  As always, we are looking for your input on defining the Nirvana Devicefor use with XenApp and XenDesktop.  

03 Apr 2008 08:11 PM EDT

The next find on our quest for the Nirvana Smartphoneis the i-mate Ultimate 6150 (i-mate 6150 web site) shown below.   The 6150's native screen resolution is VGA 640x480, making it natively more suitable for displaying Win32 apps via XenApp than most QVGA screens. 

Pic 1: 6150's browser connected to Web Interface ready to authenticate.  



Pic 2: 6150 running a full published desktop at 640x480.  I probably should have cleaned the screen before taking the picture

So what makes the 6150 a Nirvana Devicecandidate (Original Nirvana Device Post), it's got video output natively built into the device.  The 6150 comes with a VGA adapter cable that connects into the side of the device, so you can then connect it to a monitor that accepts VGA input.  The 6150 comes with software that when activated changes the device resolution to 1024x768, turns the 6150's screen into a touchpad mouse and displays the 1024x768 output to the connected monitor.  Unfortunately, the cable that I have with my demo device is only about 4ft long and did not reach to the table that was working from, so I'm using my Bluetooth mouse and keyboard instead.  Might be something for the i-mate team to look at. 


Pic 3: 6150 External output software.


Pic 4: 6150 connected to the hotel's flatscreen TV, running a published desktop from XenApp.  MS Word is open and I'm working on this text using this setup.  The 6150 is the at the base of the TV in this pic.

All of the work to create this post will be using the 6150 connected to a published desktop in my hotel room using the flat screen TV as an external monitor (except for photo resizing which I will do with my OQO, being I don't have photo shop installed on our XenApp demo server).   Seems like a real world use case to me.

In general, I like the 6150, and it is the closest device I've gotten my hands on to date to hit Chris Fleck's Nirvana deviceconcept.  Personally, I like devices to have a QWERTY keyboard on the native device as well, and I hope to get a chance to try the i-mate 8150 down the road, which does have a QWERTY and VGA out capability.  I also like the fact that the VGA feature is native to the device, so I don't need to carry anything extra but the VGA cable.  Flip side is that unlike the Redfly (Celio Redfly post), if I don't have a monitor handy, let's say in the airport, I'm restricted to the native screen of the 6150.  Hey, if i-mate gives me a really long cable, maybe I can plug into one the TVs in the airport that always running CNN

So how do I rate the 6150 as a Nirvana device candidate, again I give it an "I like it".  I think I'd like the 8150 even better with the QWERTY keyboard, but in terms of it being a smartphone that I can run XenApp applications natively and then attach it an external monitor to extend the usability, it passes my initial hotel acid test.  At the end of the day, a Nirvana SmartPhoneis a personal choice.  So if you're interested in the concept, I'd say that the i-mate 6105 is one to have a look at. 

As always, give us your feed back on this topic.  I've got a few more entries on more devices from the show to come.  Hopefully one will be the Nirvana Smartphone you're looking for to use with XenApp or soon XenDesktop, and you can leave the laptop at home on that next business trip.  As with all of the devices being tried, we will get some more hands on time with them when I get back to FTL.  We'll try and update if we find anything new.   

03 Apr 2008 01:03 AM EDT

Day 2 of my search for the Nirvana Deviceat CTIA 2008 ended a few hours ago, and we have some cool products to talk about.  Let's see how they do when we replace my OQO Model 2 with Nirvana Device candidates from the show. 

This entry focuses on one of our newest Citrix Alliance partners, Celio Corp and their recent product launch of the Redfly Mobile Companion (http://celiocorp.com).

 
Pic 1: Celio Corp booth at CTIA, including Citrix collateral at the booth. 
 

Pic 2: Redfly demo at the booth connecting to XenApp 4.5. 

The Redfly is a definitely a device cut from the cloth of Chris Fleck's original Nirvana Devicepost.  The Redfly is a portable docking station for Windows Mobile devices, thus a Mobile Companion, and has a built in mouse, keyboard and monitor.  So you wanna run those BIG win32 apps from you WinMo device, but want a bigger screen, checkout the Redfly.  It doesn't have a CPU, memory or an OS.   You connect your WinMo device to the Redfly by either USB or Bluetooth.  If connected via USB, the battery in the Redfly will also charge your WinMo Device (8 hours of battery life), if it allow USB charging.  Once the Redfly software is installed on your WinMo device, it will detect when it is attached to the Redfly, change the effective screen resolution to 800x480 and enable the Redfly's mouse and keyboard transforming the user experience similar to that of a lot of UMPCs.


Pic 3: Redfly attached to an ATT Tilt in my hotel room at the Today screen. 

In this scenario, the ICA client is installed on the ATT Tilt, and all processing involved and required storage is provided by the Tilt.  Again, think of the Redfly as a docking station with a built in mouse, keyboard and monitor that you carry on trips as a companion. 

The 800x480 resolution of the Redfly easily enables me to connect to a virtualized Citrix desktop or published application, in this case a published Microsoft Server 2003 desktop with the Luna interface enabled.  As you can see from the picture below, this device has very good potential for use with  both published applications as well as XenDesktop connections when using a WinMo device.


Pic 4: Picture taken as I was working on the text for this entry.   

The Redfly has a number of other very useful features that really enhance its usability in my opinion.   
First off, there is a VGA out port on the back of the Redfly that enables you to output the screen to a larger monitor, overhead projector or hotel TV as shown in the picture below.  


Pic 5: Redfly using its VGA output to the hotel's flat screen TV. 

You'll notice that the entire screen of the TV is not used and that the 800x480 resolution is maintained even when output to a larger monitor.  Basically, you can use the Redfly as a VGA output device for you WinMo device if you like, very cool.  But I would like to see the Celio guys enable you to change the resolution being displayed when VGAing out to a larger monitor.  Well see what happens in subsequent releases. 

So you can use the Redfly's native screen or output to a larger screen, what about upping to a bigger keyboard and external mouse?  Well, they've thought of this as well.  There are also 2 USB ports on the back of the Redfly that you can plug in USB mice and keyboard.  Even cooler IMO is that I can plug a USB stick into this slot and the device will associate this new storage as "remote storage" on the WinMo device.  And you may have guessed it, ICA will now have access to this USB drive as part of its client drive mapping.  For those concerned about security of such a use case, you can always disable this virtual drive mapping from the XenApp admin console.


Pic 6: Shot of the USB Flash card reader files maped into the XenApp desktop session via virtual client drive mapping.  This is the actual flash card that contains the pics in this post plugged into the back of the Redfly with a USB flash card reader. 

There are a number of other cool features on the Redfly, such as special function keys that are mapped to normal phone functions like Send and End calls, but I'll
let you check out their site for these.  As I stated in my initial post on my blog, when I look at devices in this space, my first thoughts are how Citrix customers can leverage such technology to enhance their use of Citrix products.  So how to I rate this one, I like it.  I see it as a true enabling technology when used with mobile devices to access XenApp or XenDesktop.  IMO, the Redfly Mobile Companion enables a lot of the concepts that we discuss in the Nirvana Device concept.  While it's not a Nirvana smartphone, IMO it takes a lot of today's WinMo devices and gets them a lot closer to the Nirvana use paradigm.   Having the option to use the Redfly as a companion to provide a bigger screen with its mouse and keyboard, or use it as a VGA output device with an even larger external mouse and keyboard is an interesting advantage if this is what you are looking for. 

Reality check: note that this entire post was produced using the ATT Tilt phone, 3G WWAN network, from the Redfly's mouse, keyboard and native monitor connected to a XenApp published desktop.  And it worked really well!  Albiet, I'm used to using UMPC devices with smaller screens and keyboards, it will take some getting used to for some.  So if you looking to lighten your load when traveling, and would like an ICA companion to go with you mobile phone so you can leave your laptop behind, you might want to check out the Redfly from Celio Corp. 

We'd appreciate your thoughts on the use of these types of devices with XenApp and soon XenDesktop.  I'm sure the Celio guys will also be interested in your input, pro or con.  At the end of the day, there is no one Nirvana solution for everyone, but is the Redfly going down the right path for Citrix users looking to further leverage ICA on mobile devices?    

01 Apr 2008 11:40 AM EDT

Our search for the Nirvana Device has led me to Las Vegas and CTIA 2008.  Citrix has been working with a number of partners around the concept of the Nirvana Device, and a lot of them are here this week.  The plan is to try and get as many demo devices that I can and report my findings in my blog as related to their use from my hotel room at the show.  So let's start off with my current baseline config of my remote office in my hotel room in Vegas. 

Device: OQO, maker of the Model 2 UMPC (www.oqo.com), and a Citrix Alliance partner.  You may have seen them at iForum or Citrix Summit over the last year.

I've actually been using OQO Model 2 as my primary device over a year now, and UMPCs such as the Model 2 used with Citrix App Delivery work great.  In the FTL office, I dock the Model 2 and the doc has 2 VGA outputs, so I run a dual monitor setup and drive a 21" and 19" monitor from my desk.  I also have a doc at home connected to my home office monitor via a KVM switch.  So when working from home, I simply KVM from my home PC and use the same device that I use from work.   At the CTIA show, I'm docked and connected to the Philips flatscreen TV in my hotel room.  Of course, the form factor of the Model 2 is also great when attending meetings at the office, or working from home on the couch (note: I'm over 40 and have no problem seeing text on the OQO's native screen, but some will have issues clearly seeing text on a device this small, reading glasses may be required by some J).  The Model 2 I have has built in EVDO Rev A from Verizon, which works great when on the road or at home (using it from my hotel room as I type this entry).  I can see this type of devices being used by others like myself that just prefer a small form factor UMPC, as well as some good tactical usages with Citrix customers, where a standard sized laptop is just to big.  Some pics of the baseline remote office setup below:


 
 
As you can see, several of the Nirvana Device concepts that Chris Fleck mentioned in his original post (Original Nirvana Device Post) are already in play.  Being the Model 2 is a UMPC and not a smart phone, I'm cheating a little, but:
-          I am docked and using the hotel's flat screen TV as a larger monitor

-          I am using an external Bluetooth mouse and keyboard

-          I am using a WWAN connection for my network

-          I am using Citrix App Delivery to do my work

While I don't plan on giving up my OQO any time soon, I am going to see what I can find at the show that I could use in the same basic configuration that I'm using the OQO in.

Off to my 2nd meeting of the day, and hopefully will return tonight with some more Nirvana Device candidates to try out. 

27 Feb 2008 06:28 PM EST

Like a lot of folks in the industry, I consider myself somewhat of a gadget guy.  But after 10yrs of working at Citrix, thoughts of application delivery start to run through your veins and every time I get a new RRS post from Engadget or similar site, the first thoughts that go through my head are:
-          Is this the Nirvana Device for connecting to XenApp and XenDesktop (See Chris Flecks post on The Nirvana device a Smartphone as a PC alternative)?

-          Are there a particular Citrix customer segments that this device would provide a unique solution for?

-          Could I use this device on the road and leave my laptop at home?

-          And then, this thing looks pretty cool!

Citrix has long had alliance partnerships with a number of the main mobility players, both on the carrier side and the device side.  Given the recent advancements in both WWAN bandwidth and small device capabilities, it's made a lot of the conversations much more interesting than in the days of no QWERTY keyboard and Edge level connectivity.  As the devices get better, so does our solution with them.

The demand for access to corporate apps and data from mobile devices also seems to continue to grow, which is driving the concerns about enabling this scenario by IT administrators.  CMP Research recently published a paper on this trend entitled The State of Mobile Device Management that hit both on the growing trend and concerns caused by the trend.

Berfore I contine, I'd like to do a quick poll (note you must be logged in to participate):

1-Did you know that Citrix offers ICA client for cellphones and PDAs? Choose
Yes
No
2-Have you ever used/tried the ICA client on a mobile device (cellphone/PDA)? Choose
Yes
No
3-How would you rate the experience? Choose
Great
OK
Bad
Don't want to talk about it
N/A, based on answer to #2
4-What type of OS did the device have Choose
Windows Mobile
Symbian
Blackberry
Other
N/A, based on answer to #2
5-Do you or your company use cell phones or PDA with the ICA client today? Choose
Yes
No

  

DID YOU KNOW?

Citrix has for years offered ICA clients for mobile devices on its Client downloads page, and we have worked closely with Rove (formerly Idokorro Mobile) on the development of an ICA client for BlackBerry.  ICA clients that can be downloaded from the Citrix download site include variants for Windows Mobile devices and well as select Nokia Symbian based devices and have been used by customers for years to securely access data in their data center, helping evolve it into a Citrix Delivery Center.

Citrix Access Gateway as well as Secure Gateway offer clientless access to XenApp servers, so yes, there is a way to securely connect such mobile devices to your XenApp server.  CAG boxes need to be configured to allow what is referred to as "Secure Gateway" mode to provide such clientless access.  No SSL/VPN software is required on the phone when the connecting to a CAG box in this mode. 

UNDERSTANDING THE USE CASE

So the Citrix Delivery Center concept does provide the solutions to allow you to use mobile phones to access corporate applications and data, but there are still a few things to discuss.  First I probably need to appropriately set some expectations.  Below is a slide I commonly use when discussing this use case with partners and customers: 

What this basically tries to convey is that there will still be cases where a user will need to pull out a laptop.   If the user needs to produce a large amount of data, or make a lot of changes to data, they most likely will still prefer to pull out a larger device with a full keyboard and large screen to perform the task. 

Data Production: For example, I would not try and produce this blog posting from my cell phone, even though I technically could by launching a browser from XenApp to get full functionality of the blogging software on my phone. 

Data Consumption/Response: But I would and do frequently consume blog entries from this site, and post simple replies from my cell phone.  Or respond to email I get from the SAP system to approve a request by launching SAP into IE published on XenApp, just so I can hit the Accept button without having to pull out my laptop.

 So without moving into the Nirvana Device concepts discussed on Chris Fleck's blog post, there are a lot of tasks that can be accomplished using today's devices and today's XenApp technology. 

YA, BUT WINDOWS APPS ARE BIG, AND THE SCREEN IS SMALL

For all of you that answered YES to poll question #2, you probably are familiar with the below scenario:

 
Your device's screen is 320x240 resolution, but XenApp is sending you an application running 1020x768 resolution.  And you spend way too much time panning/moving the app around the screen to get to the data you need.  You even need to pan to the right or bottom, just to get to the apps scroll bars.  This is where most people start giving up because of usability issues.

Changes to Web Interface 4.5 have been posted on the Citrix support forums that can greatly help this scenario (http://support.citrix.com/forums/thread.jspa?forumID=136&threadID=91629&tstart=0) These changes can be added to the .ASPX code of Web Interface to make the launch of the XenApp application more device aware.  Rather than launching Excel or some other application on my device at 1024x768, wouldn't launching the session at a resolution more native to the devices screen be better to limit the amount of panning required?  That's what this code basically does. 

-          When the user clicks on an application icon in Web Interface from a mobile device (Windows Mobile and Nokia Symbian S60 devices recognized today), the device's OS type and the device's screen resolution are sent to Web Interface as part of the transaction.

-          When Web Interface creates the ICA file to be sent back to the phone to launch the requested application, it changes the session resolution parameters in the ICA file to a resolution more compatible with the device's OS and screen size.

Again, both the OS type of the device and the size of the devices screen size (Treo=WinMo,240x240, Cingular 8525=WinMo,320x240, Nokia E61i=Symbian,320x240) are used to determine the session resolution of the application.

You can read more details on this by following the above link to this posting on the Citrix support forum (http://support.citrix.com/forums/thread.jspa?forumID=136&threadID=91629&tstart=0) But I also do want to mentaion that the session resolution that is assigned can be defined on a per-application basis.  So you can run Excel at 320x285 (the current default in this code) on an 8525, but then have SAP running in a published IE browser run at 450x300, because the SAP UI simply demands a slightly larger resolution.  Running a cell phone at 450x300 is a lot better than 1024x768.  It's all about limiting the amount of panning and scaling (zoom-in/zoom-out) the user needs to do to perform the necessary task with the application.

The screen shots below represents how the same spreadsheet above would appear on a Cingular 8525 phone, with the Web Interface changes made.  Excel would be launched on this device at 320x285.  

 

Once the user opens the desired document, they can pan the file menu ribbon up and off-screen to maximize the available screen space for the actual spreadsheet data.  The can then pan back down if the need to access the file menu ribbon again.


Note that at this resolution both the right and bottom scroll bars of the app are present on the screen, so the user does not need to pan the application, just to get to the scroll bars.  The defaults in the Web Interface code have been optimized for a lot of "standard" windows applications such as Excel and Word 2003, based on the "normal" size of a file menu ribbon.   The defaults are completely configurable in the code.

SO WHY USE XenApp WITH MOBILE DEVICES

Below is a snippet from the CMP paper mentioned earlier on the key concerns of enterprises and use of mobile devices:


 
Numerous Citrix customers today are using Citrix solutions to solve a lot of the same issues with laptops and home desktops.  So why not use the same infrastructure to help solve these problems with mobile devices.  A lot of applications do not need to be "mobilized", and you can simply deliver the same app that you deliver to your lap/desktops to the mobile device, just running in a smaller window (yes there will always be some apps the just don't make sense). 

SUMMARY

So if you've been investigating a strategy to enable mobile device access to your corporate data, I hope this summary helps you understand how the technology in the Citrix Delivery Center can help.  While it may not be the 100% solution, it can help you establish a common infrastructure to base you solution on.

Associated blog with video at http://community.citrix.com/display/~adamma/2008/03/21/Citrix+App+Delivery+to+an+ATT+8525+using+WWAN

Actual use of such devices with Nirvana Device Concepts from CTIA 2008:

In Search of the Nirvana Device at CTIA 2008 (OQO Model 2)

Nirvana Device Search (Celio Corp Redfly Mobile Companion)  

Nirvana Device Search (i-mate Ultimate 6150)

Nirvana Device Search (i-mate Ultimate 9502)

Nirvana Device Search (Impatica Showmate)