there is shown a prospective view of a mobile device operating under a device profile according to some embodiments of the present invention wherein the device is configured to operate as a mobile phone turning now to fig1 c there is shown a prospective view of a mobile device operating under a device profile according to some embodiments of the present invention wherein the device is configured to operate as a media player turning now to fig1 d there is shown a prospective view of a mobile device operating under a device profile according to some embodiments of the present invention wherein the device is configured to operate as a digital personal organizer turning now to fig2 there is shown a block diagram of an exemplary mobile device according to some embodiments of the present invention including a user interface various components and various electrical functional blocks to drive and control those components the functionality of the device 10 shown in fig2 will be described in view of the flow charts of fig4 a through 5b and using the prospective views of fig1 a through 1d a profile configuration database 200 may include information used by the controller 100 in regulating signal flow to the device element manager 300 as shown in fig3 the configuration database 200 may include such information as active components required by each of the device profiles 500 a through 500 n configured on the device turning now to fig4 a which is a flow diagram including the step of an exemplary method of installing operational software on a mobile device according to some embodiments of the present invention step 1000 corresponds to the initial setup of the device hardware such as installing the basic firmware and.