Technology trends continue to increase the processing capabilities of mobile devices. The latest smartphones include up to 8 processing cores and often have fairly
powerful GPUs as well. In spite of this, it may make sense to offload computation
to the cloud or a cloudlet. Describe two (2) circumstances under which it might be
beneficial to offload application functionality from such a powerful smartphone?

Two circumstances under which it might be beneficial to offload application functionality from a powerful smartphone are Data Saving and Ransomware/Malware Protection.

Explanation:

Various data like documents, videos,photos etc can be offloaded to a cloud or cloud-let in order to prevent permanent data loss during inevitable as loss of phone, theft etc.  Such saved data can be easily retrieved from cloud storage when new phones are gotten without any loss. Also, in order to prevent total data and application loss by various various attacks, it is advisable that one stores various application and data on cloud servers to enable retrieval easily. Even some cloud servers offer backup security against such virus attacks.

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