12 Future iPhone Applications
I’m sure that if you’re an iPhone lover, and you’re just waiting for the new iPhone SDK, you’re probably expecting loads of new applications. Well, first off Native Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr clients for iPhone will run faster than their in-browser versions, and they will take advantage of the impressive Apple UI libraries. But, at the same time you will encounter new applications, not just advancements on the old ones.
1. Reality Tagging is not new, but it is new for the iPhone. It will allow you to take a picture of a landmark and comment on the picture and add tags. Your iPhone will automatically geo-tag the picture and send it to a photo sharing service on the internet so that anyone in the world can find the picture but the exact geo location or the tags.
2. People Tagging allows you to tag pictures of people. You can already take a picture of a person and assign the picture to your contacts, but it is just a matter of time before you can make the pictures available to search engines.
3. Reality Recognition is fueled by reality tagging and advanced image recognition. You will be able to take a picture of anything and instantly a wikipedia page about the image will load. It can be great for hiking trips and site seeing.
4. Physical Social Networks will allow yout to open your iPhone and see a list of your friends who have been to whatever location you are at. This can be helpful if you're trying out a new restaurant and you want to see who you know that has already eaten there and what they thought of the place and food.
5. Personalized Travel Guides You can get personalized tours of whatever location you are at using your iPhone. You can have the tours custom tailored to your tastes and travel preferences because the software will already know what you like.
6. Digital and Physical Treasure Hunt is sort of like a social game where you will be able to use your iPhone to navigate your way through both physical nad digital worlds in order to find your way through this mental challenge while you show off your knowledge.
7. Distributed Mobile Games are fueled by social networks that allow you to tap into a non web-based game anywhere. There are many possibilities that can be set by the mood of the game based on surroundings and connecting to players based on geo location.
8. Credit Card and Biometrics as Software will allow you to walk into a store and pay using your iPhone. The software communicates securely and directly with the cash register via Blue-Tooth or Wi-Fi capabilities. The safety of the transaction is secured by biometrics, where for example, the clerk may ask you to place a random finger onto the screen of the phone to verify that the phone is yours.
9. Paperless Receipts & Digital Business Cards allow you to get the receipt of your purchase directly on your iPhone screen via Blue-Tooth or Wi-Fi capability. The receipt is also emailed to you and backed up on to the remote store. If you have to return the item, all you have to do is pull up the receipt on your iPhone and it goes directly to the store cash register.
10. Medical records as Software is going to allow you to have your medical history available on your iPhone, which will enable all of your doctors and pharmacies to better communicate around your health. This will allow you to move your medical history around to different doctors, especially if one doctor uses paper and another doesn't.
11. Physical Browsing & Digital Shopping will allow you to browse items in the physical world and instantly buy them online. This allows you to have the experience of shopping at the mall, but you can purchase the items online in order to get the better, typically cheaper internet price.
12. Location/Time-Based Deals is a great way to point your iPhone to an item at one store and getting instantly lowered prices from other stores. It's a simple way to get the best priced item, than having to call around from store to store. All you have to do is point and click and the lower prices are instantly given to you.
These 12 iPhone aplications are pretty cool and will definitely change the way we do things, and if you look at each of the above 12 applications, you can probably see a pretty big trend coming this way that blends the physical and the digital worlds.
1. Reality Tagging is not new, but it is new for the iPhone. It will allow you to take a picture of a landmark and comment on the picture and add tags. Your iPhone will automatically geo-tag the picture and send it to a photo sharing service on the internet so that anyone in the world can find the picture but the exact geo location or the tags.
3. Reality Recognition is fueled by reality tagging and advanced image recognition. You will be able to take a picture of anything and instantly a wikipedia page about the image will load. It can be great for hiking trips and site seeing.
8. Credit Card and Biometrics as Software will allow you to walk into a store and pay using your iPhone. The software communicates securely and directly with the cash register via Blue-Tooth or Wi-Fi capabilities. The safety of the transaction is secured by biometrics, where for example, the clerk may ask you to place a random finger onto the screen of the phone to verify that the phone is yours.
11. Physical Browsing & Digital Shopping will allow you to browse items in the physical world and instantly buy them online. This allows you to have the experience of shopping at the mall, but you can purchase the items online in order to get the better, typically cheaper internet price.
These 12 iPhone aplications are pretty cool and will definitely change the way we do things, and if you look at each of the above 12 applications, you can probably see a pretty big trend coming this way that blends the physical and the digital worlds.
Whitney
