Different Views on Location Awareness

Location awareness is a key ingredient to many applications of mobile devices. Devices with the ability to determine their own position can retrieve, filter or present information depending on this position in space. There are, however two different ways to view this situation resulting in different distributions of computational resources. We argue that in many cases it will be better and easier to put some computational effort and design wits into the environment and infrastructure than into the actual mobile device. In this sense we claim that there should be more artificial intelligence around mobile devices than in them.