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Mobile apps with the maximum of functionality – new approach to mobile software development

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Modern interfaces designed for mobile phones lacks integrity. Specialists form the EleganceIT company decided to reconsider existing approach to mobile soft development and invented some new features. They just took a sheet of paper and drew a table, including all the most popular mobile functions in horizontal and vertical lines, one by one. So cell at their intersections showed the possible way of integration:

1. Calendar + Phonebook = birthday reminder

2. Photo + Phonebook = to mark in the photo your friends from phonebook

3. Calendar + Photos = sort photos according to dates and events from your calendar

4. Photo + GPS = locate photos, taken by phone user

5. GPS + Phonebook = to mark addresses (home, work, etc.) assigned to people from your phonebook

6. SMS + Phonebook = to show SMS messages as a chat with particular contact (as it was done in Gmail)

7. GPS + Call log = to show where the call took a place (It is doubtful, but it may be helpful for those who need an alibi :) )

8. Notes + Phonebook = mobile CRM, to leave any notes about people from your phonebook (their wishes, debt, etc.)

9. Contact + Alarms = call reminder, appointment reminder, etc.

10. Alarms + GPS = to call back to particular person when the phone is at an appointed place

11. Internet + Phonebook = friendfeeds, rss from their web pages

12. Internet + Music = something like last.fm

13. Bluetooth + Phonebook = associate contact and bluetooth address, keep a transmissions history (or even better keep one chat with sms, call logs, rss, etc.)

14. SMS + GPS = send SMS on arrival an appointed place (Mom: Son, send me sms on arrival – it will be so easy then :) )

EleganceIT believe that users definitely appreciate such features, so mobile development companies should work in this direction.

What do you want to see in your ideal smartphone?

Friday, September 25th, 2009

iphone_jokeMany of us are Smartphone owners, some use Windows Mobile, others prefer such OS as iPhone or Android. But we all need different additional applications to personalize our high-tech “friend”. Mobile application developers released thousands of programs for smartphones, but users always want more.

So let’s review the list of functions, which you may wish to add in your future ideal smartphone, so called “can do anything” device. Of course we will be realistic and will not add such functions as “to make coffee”. :)

Wish # 1: RSS reader, Twitter client, mail client with voice synthesizer and voice control. Such functions will be very useful on the way to work. For example, you can read news headlines, and then give a voice command to read the full version. Many users say that existing applications for voice control are far from the ideal, so there is a lot of work for mobile programs developers.

Wish # 2: Built-in FM transmitter. Many of us save a lot of music files on our smarts (iPhones), and it would be nice to listen to it in a car (a car radio) without awkward adapters and cables. Of course, we must admit that such features somehow have been already implemented on the basis of Bluetooth.

To be continued…