An iphone application which was introduced by Viper, a California based company which might mitigate this winter.

“Think out of box”,A free downloable application “SmartStart” can connect your iphone with a hardware module installed in your car. Just like James bond, you can start the car, start the heat or A/C, raise the trunk, lock or unlock the doors, and sound alarms from any location ,hold on you cannot drive!!!

To start the car using iPhone you need
1.iPhone with free App(It works with Wifi or dataplan)
2.Viper SmartStart hardware module (install it in your car & module costs atleast $300)

Security ramification has to be taken care .Starting your car even if it isn’t within direct line-of-sight is great advantage,what if you have started the car in unsafe situation where you wouldn’t want to, secondly there are cars which comes with default remote starters which has cut-off timer which rest the engine if you didn’t show up, typically 10 minutes.

You can control five basic functions of the car from anywhere provided with wifi and this coolest application is free to download, you also have a set back on hardware cost(at atleast $300). It comes as free service for first year,and there after an annual charge of $30 USD added for your car safety.

Smartstart is also joining the list of automotive iphone applications which has recently drive the market.

Let us have a look at the demo here

iPhone is getting the feel of physical keyboard with iTwinge. For a dedicated blackberry users and people with king sized thumb had difficulty in using the touchscreen version of iPhone. iTwinge can be slided from the bottom to top to act as a standard QWERTY keypad. With Apple approval Mobile Mechatronics has planned to sell this durable keypad for $29.99 .

However Mobile Mechatronics claims that an average user who has trouble in touch screen will improve their speed by 30% to 40% and simultaneously reduce typing errors by 70 – 80%. The iTwinge is also a good transitory product for users of other Smart phones that want to convert to the iPhone.

iPhone touch screen is trouble for
1. Heavy email or text users,
2. people with fat fingers,
3. women with long finger nails

To resolve this, Apple should consider its users with wireless or wired or Bluetooth enabled keyboard .

why not a Bluetooth enabled keyboard for iPhone or iPod touch users?

I would like to share the youtube which gives the demo of Bluetooth enabled keyboard for iPhone or iPod touch .

iPhone needs physical keyboard not just iTwinge. iPhone users should vote your comments for a wireless keyboard.

Nokia with proven records in electronics has joined the race in delivering world class smart phone. Nokia N900 is a complete smartphone with dyanmic features,it is desgined to preform multitasking in linx platform. With no delay its expected to be launced in oct 2009.

Nokia N900 is an innovative smartphone to stimulate a computer and internet in the mobile. Its will be of great support to the business travellers, much more handy than Nokia Booklet 3G. Nokia well-known tradition for its battery life, N900 is promised for 9 hours of talk time.

Nokia’s first Linux-based Maemo handset will be delivered with
1. ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz processor
2. 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)
3. OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration
4. 3.5inch touch screen
5. 800 × 480 pixel resolution
6. 32GB of storage, expandable upto 48GB via microSD card
7. 5MP camera and Carl Zeiss optics.
8. 1320mAh battery
9. 110.9 × 59.8 × 18mm dimension and 181g weight
10. Maemo browser falvoured by Mozilla technology
11. Internet connectivity with 10/2 HSPA and WLAN
12. Adobe Flash 9.4
13. Video recording at up to 848 × 480 pixels (WVGA) and up to 25fps
14. slide-out QWERTY
15. TV Out and FM Transmitter
16. 9 hours of talk time.
17. Voice call with webcam

 Lets wait and watch how Maemo hits the market very soon

Google Maps is well know travel navigator with the updated version of map. Google is now providing the new feature of “Live Traffic”, just by selecting the button “Traffic”. Map coloring is also enabled to show the traffic status in your city.

Red – Heavy traffic
Red and Black – Stop and slow moving traffic
Yellow – Medium traffic
Green – Free to go

In case if your jammed in the traffic, No problem your given option to select the alternate routes in your mobile phones, just zooming goggle maps on a particular city will give latest traffic details.

How is goggle providing you this “Live traffic” status?
Yes , it might be from your friends mobile phones.

Everybody on the road, all at once, could tell the world how fast their car is moving. Some phones, such as the Google Android , myTouch 3G and the Palm Pre, come with Google Maps and traffic “crowdsourcing” pre-installed (however, iPhone does not support traffic crowdsourcing).

With GPS and “My Location” option enabled on your phone, Google receives data sent from your mobile to describe how fast the traffic is moving. Having this enabled in more mobiles will give the better resulting of live-traffic report.

iPhone was invented in June 2007 as an integrated cellular telephone with multi-media player. iPhone has the most simpatico design of any moiblephone we’ve ever seen. It is desgined with interface to intergrate the latest electronic gadgets in a single device.

Inventor John Casey had a comptable idea of combining celluar phone with music , media player, digital camera, PDA, and WiFi. Enabling WiFi and iTunes in iPhone has brought revolution in smart phones.

Jobs unveiled iPhone to the public on January 2007 and it has accelerated the opportunity to develop iphone applications. Registered iPhone developers can download iPhone SDK 3.0 and turn their ideas into applications.

Apple iPhone
Invented by: John Casey, Sacramento, CA
Invented on: June 29 2007.
Marketed by: Steve Jobs (CEO)
Units sold: 21.17 million (till Q2 2009)
Market wide: 22 counties.
Initially named: Telipod
Finally renamed: iPhone

Inside iPhone
Operating system: iPhone OS 3.0.1 (build 7A400)
Langauge: Cocoa frameworks , written in Objective-C
web browser: Safari
Java support : No
Flash support: No
supports : SVG, CSS, HTML Canvas, and Bonjour.

Devloper iPhone
SDK : iPhone SDK 3.0
IDE : Xcode IDE for coding
simulator : iPhone simulator for testing
Touchscreen API : Cocoa Touch

Lawsuit for the name “iPhone”
January 2007 Apple announced the iPhone , Cisco technology company’s attention turned around claiming the name “iPhone” is part of range of VoIP products and services. Tie break leads Cisco to file a lawsuit, later two companies eventually reached an agreement with undisclosed terms in February 2007. An agreement that allows both companies to use the name “iPhone “.

Criticism
To every technology journalists, phone’s battery life is core subject of criticism. Every criticism has also leads the road to improvement , iphone 3GS has got Video recording, Voice Control , Digital compass and Cut, Copy & Paste features, which was a criticism of previous version.

Overall iPhone is also a stepping stone for the smart phone revolution. Steve Jobs stands by his promise by delivering cultured third generation smart phone which supports best application .

“Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow”…

Android developers progress the activity in google application for better tomorrow. In general phone applications has average life of 30 days and later it lose it sense with phone user. There are certain applications will have great stand. Let us have a look at top applications of google phone.

A real cool application which was released today(when i started writing this) was “nimbuzz”.Nimbuzz will give access to all your chat application in one window. Just by switching chat(yahoo chat,gmail chat ,skype etc) apps you can chat with your friends easily.

1. Cab4Me (Call a cab)
Cab4me is very friendly apps which lets users call a cab to their location with a single click. In built GPS and google maps locate not only the user’s current location, but also the location of the cab nearest to the user. User is given option to select the cab he/she is interested with a click on map you can dial the cab nearest to you.

Calling a cab with these two features in phone
GPS – To search and locate the cab
Phone – To call the nearest cab

2. imeem Mobile (Music Feast)
imeem Mobile is a feast for music lovers, where users can listen to streamed music for free or buy it if it suits their type. It has a friendly navigation to search,to tag for favorites,to listen to recent played and many more. Sharing favorite songs made much easier via email.
Recommendations with review will suggest you with new music list of your type. Handy click can buy song from amazon MP3. Users can drive this application with google phone and iPhone.

imeem application uses the feature of google phone.
imeem browser – To search,to listen,to share and tag there music type.
Phone speaker – To break the ear the drum.(not so funny)

3. iSkoot for Skype(Talk from google phone to laptop or any 3G phone with online friends)
iSkoot for Skype is an application that will enable voice chat in WiFi to anywhere in the world form your google phone, by having the skype will directly connect to your chat or call with any of your contacts over your wireless connection. Having registered with skype phone number you to be able to make and receive calls. You also talk from google phone to laptop or any 3G phone. This is pretty handy to make voice chat or chat with people online.

iSkoot application uses the following features
1.iSkoot browser – To Ping the friends online and to call the friends
2.Phone speaker – To share the voice

4. BreadCrumbz (Travel lovers)
BreadCrumbz is an application which can be used in realtime very much as map or guide to the desired place. The highlight here is to create and customize your own map to the place you wish to go for this summer. Making a guide is really made easy as well as BreadCrumbz will guide you right through the entire process step by step. You can customize to the extend where you can create breadcrumz to the building you enter till you exit. It is just picture-based navigation application for mobile phones.

BreadCrumbz will use the following
Camera – To snap the place
Phone – To share with Friends

5. Wikitude(Travel lovers)
Wikitude is a location aware Wikipedia app for the Android platform. It will use the in built camera and it will scan the details from the web(mostly from Flicker),by selecting your place of interest will provide more details. It will also add the geo-tagged picture and makes interesting if you browse for new place around you. Restaurant or bar search is made easy with more reviews, after the brief search you can also make call to restaurant or bar for the reservation directly from wikitude browser. This application is definitely handy guided tourist with bulit-in GPS with more details about the location.

Wikitude uses the following feature in the phone
Camera – To scan the location.
Phone – To make a call (if needed for reservation).
Data plan – To get more details about the location.

6. CompareEverywhere (Smart shopping)
CompareEverywhere will provide smarter way of Shopping. Just scan the barcode you will be given good deal of “sale price” with reviews in neighborhood stores and online tracking of shopping lists, and wish lists. Its killer shopping application.

Compareeverywhere uses the following
1.Camera – To scan the barcode.
2.Data Plan – To compare the products online & share with your friends.
3.GPS – To locate the stores near by.

7. Shazam (Music lovers)
Shazam is feature rich application for music lovers. This application will Identify music running from anywhere in anytime. Just hold your google phone to the song playing near you,It will scan and load the song with more details. It will also weed the unwanted noise.

“Tag Now” (to add in your collection) and “My Tags”(in your collection list) are two basic option to organise your music library.

After scanning the song,it gives following features
1.It will bring artist details.
2.realted video in youtube.
3.online store to buy the music album.
4.Tweet your song to your follwers.
5.send your Tags as a Postcard to friends.
6.can see other music from the artist and view song lyrics.
7.Tag the untag’ed music once found in WiFi.

8. SplashPlay (Learn guitar online)
Learning to play guitar is fun and it made easier with your google phone.SplashPlay combines various aspects of music tuition seamlessly in a single application. An add-on device is needed to enjoy the real tempo else you will lose the power of splashplay.

The finger movements on the string is tracked and recorded as dotted lights in color on your android platform. Playing guitar to your impress your girl friend or boy friend is possible by just learning to play the favourite song.

9. ShopSavvy
ShopSavvy makes you shopaholic with its mind blowing features. This application will scan the barcode of any product and it will search for all the best prices on the Internet, it also makes things easy by searching through the inventories of nearby, local stores with the phone’s built-in GPS. Animations are used to enhance the mobile user experience.

Your shopping is done with features in phone
Camera – To scan the barcodes.
Browser – To make an online purchase or to view the merchant’s product page.
Email – To share the product’s link to a friend.
Shopsavvy– To rate the product and to get the review.

10.Google Voice:
Google Voice will manage all your phones (mobiles, Home phone, and work phone) with one google number. All the calls will be forwarded to one phone.This application works in voip and it will say “no fee” to service provider for call forwarding in any phone.

Google voice will use following feature from phone
Phone – One phone number for the life time and ring all the phone to one number.
Browser – To add all phone number(office,home,mobile) and call forward.
WiFi – To Connect to Internet(else will be using a data plan)

” Build early and build often. Release early and release often. “

iPhone Application works in the fashion to “build early and release often” with new apps.

iPhone can guide your direction with Tom-Tom’s GPS navigation. This money and fuel saving application offers turn-by-turn directions for travel lovers with enhanced IQ Routes technology. Tele Atlas will also provide a shoulder support to update the latest maps. Just docking your iPhone GPS will have voice instructions, charging and hands-free calling.

This application is launched in New Zealand in the App Store via iTunes.
100 USD will change you iPhone into GPS in USA & Canada.

Google Android is wisdom for technology users and Google Apps is the music for Android users.

Google’s Android operating system is an open-source running on the Linux kernel for mobile service.It also has the broad spectrum of applications and services with common phone’s capabilities.The application boundaries are wide to have fast & easy deployment,means you can customise your phone with your favourite applications(Apps’).

Android is also a pocket google engine for the google fans,All the google applications are available in the Android HTC google phone. Thanks to Sherpa which provides users to customize the menus, wallpapers, themes and skins. Google is also trumpeting about the complete customisation , the spirte of customisation is completely dark in iPhone.Android 1.5 “Cupcake” software gives a virtual keyboard to google phone.Almost a million Android Phones sold in the market still Apple iPhone is leading in the touch screen mobile market .

Android as open source enables developers to easily create mobile
applications for google phone by which we have access to 6300(approx) google application.

Few top Android Apps in the market are
1. cab4me (award winning and my favourite)
2. imeem Mobile
3. iSkoot for Skype
4. BreadCrumbz
5. Wikitude
6. CompareEverywhere
7. Shazam
8. SplashPlay
9. ShopSavvy

Android provides the following features
1.For Android Users(google phone users)
1. Basic Phone services
2. Touchscreen and roller ball as joystick for games
3. 3G Network and Wi-Fi Access
4. Gmote as remote
5. QWERTY Keyboard
6. One-Touch Google Search and Contextual Search
7. Real Web Browsing and Google Apps
8. YouTube and Music Player
9. 3.2 Mega pixel Camera

INFO: Google MyTouch 3G phone was launched on August 5th 2009.

2.For Android developers(who develops the application)
1. Free open source
2. customizable mobile platform
3. Offers an operating system
4. Middleware with key mobile applications
5. APIs that allows developers to customise

INFO:The second Android Developer Challenge will be closed on August 31, 2009.In this contest,real-world users will help review and score applications and the overall winner will take away $250,000 !!!

“You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.” Lets see how far the google goes to discover the success in Android.

Demo Android myTouch 3G

To be happy in this world, all you need is a cell phone and an airplane. Then you’re truly wireless.

The freedom your phone gives everyday has definitely transformed our life style.

Rushing to a bank in the closing hours or standing in long queue to encash your check is made easy.USAA, A private bank and insurance company is providing the feature to deposit your bank checks via iPhone.

Get the checks, just click the both sides of the check with your iphone camera and hit the send button this will instantly join the electronic queue in the bank deposit system.

Analyst’s say mostly Mobile banking is done
1. To know the account balances,
2. For money transfer,
3. Making payments and
4. Searching nearest ATM.

Demo to deposit your bank checks by iPhone

Also try researching www.selfbankphone.com , In canada ,They claim that they have the first and only mobile payment platform. Bar codes for purchases or sms password protected.

It’s also know as M-Commerce (Mobile Commerce)

There are no great limits to growth of technology because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Technology has transformed our life, Having your 6th sense as device might be a great fun.It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment.

Latest Update
Here is the demo given by Pranav Mistry in TED Talk India

This video podcast shows more in detail

Amazing Congrats Mr.Pranav Mistry