Augmented Reality – or overlaying digital information/things on top of reality is an area poised for growth. There are many potentially useful scenarios: pointing at a person can retrieve their profile on Facebook; pointing at a movie theater lets you buy tickets for the latest flick; pointing at a patient’s room in a hospital lets [...]
Amid all the hoop-la around Apple’s announcements this week, you may have overlooked the following about the new iPhone 3G S. iPhone 3G S’s new autofocus camera allows you to tap on the subject that you want to focus on. Yes, just tap on the subject on your screen, and it will automatically focus on [...]
Rumors of what will be in the 3rd generation iPhone have renewed. This time, a source claiming to be close to Apple’s iPhone Development team gave us more details about the specs. They are inline with what we reported earlier. 32GB and 16GB to replace current capacities $199 and $299 price-points to be maintained 3.2 [...]
When Google announced Latitude last week, we wanted to use it in a hurry. But crap, Latitude wasn’t available yet on the iPhone (probably due to Apple’s no background apps policy). Fortunately, we have a BlackBerry Bold lying around as well. We went to Google Latitude’s page to enter in our mobile number, and the [...]
Garmin and Asus announced today that they are teaming up to create a line of co-branded location-based services centric phones, called Garmin-Asus nüvifone™ series. The original nüvifone™ that Garmin announced way back in January 2008 will be rebranded as nüvifone™ G60, is still expected to hit first half of 2009. Garmin and Asus said that [...]
Today, Google is introducing Google Latitude to give you the ability to see where your friends and family are on your smartphone or PC. It super imposes the location of the person on top of Google maps, and shows provides users with the ability to control whether they would like others to see their locations. [...]
Yesterday, HTC announced that they will be bringing us the Touch Cruise, the first location-centric smartphone, onto the market in Q2 of 2009. The primary value proposition and differentiator from other smartphones is its HTC Footprints™, which is a software on the device that can “record every adventure in precise and vivid detail – down [...]
You may know, that we here at SkratchBoard.com, are big believers of location-based services and applications. Wired magazine seems to agree with us. The cover of the Feb. 09 issue of Wired magazine is dedicated to the “GPS Revolution”. If you have an iPhone, BlackBerry or an Android phone, we would highly recommend checking out [...]
We believe that there is a perfect storm brewing that will cause location-based services to take off in a big way in 2009 and 2010. It has already taken off in the portable navigation device (PND), but now it will happen on your mobile smartphone. What are location-based services? The best known example would be [...]
