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Wednesday 29 April 2009

What are the PDA killer apps?

Alison's Contribution:

'm answering this as an individual and here's my list of wants for killer apps for my Nokia 800 - All of these could be classed under a, b, c, or d categories. 

1. Ability to download sections of webs to read/work off-line - inbetween hotspots. For instance LinkedIn on Wireless would be great - even better if you could save your answers and synch once you got back in range. 
2. Contact management - synching between systems - the ultimate replication ripple - even better if I can blue tooth the numbers to my phone so it can dial mobile numbers. This needs to be linked to email conversations, to-do lists and calendar. 
3. Wireless voip 
4. Voice or thought input** for word processing / editing of documents on the run - simple emails, blogs, etc. 

Hope this helps. 

Alison Murray 

**work has started in this area, but it may be years before we see consumer gadgets.

Clarification added April 25, 2007:

Just thought of two more 
5. Mobile TV (obvious isn't it?) 
6. Simultaneous language translation - voice to screen/voice between two peopel speaking different languages... OK, it may not be seen as a killer application yet, but I can see the day coming where we wonder why someone hadn't invented it years ago.

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