The World is in our hands

We all remember in the late Eighties, when the first handphones were developed by Motorola, a huge phone with an antenna of more than 25 cm long ! It was long after the first fiction phone from a distant future in Star Trek where the famous sentence was pronounced by William Shatner (alias Captain Kirk) when he calls his operator back in the mothership the Enterprise: “Beep me up Scotty”. Fortunately mobiles have been developed into mini workspaces where people can not only contact each other but make video conferences and use internet to share, collaborate and work from distance.

All the players in the market agree that the future is in our hands, specifically at the top of our fingertips. Thanks to Third generation smart phones a person is able to work without being on his desk. You can share and transfer your files, using smart softwares such as Windows mobile, but you can also use google and its free documents and workspace application. Third generation phones, let us call them 3GM are not only more interactive to users but it can be personalized and updated with new and smart applications for all sorts of use.

Social networking can be used without any problem, you register and update your profile with your 3GM. You can access  Linkedin by just clicking the icon on your desktop. Change your profile or update your status, download your contacts to your phone, search for people you know on Facebook, upload or download pictures and videos on flikr and youtube.

Google for examples offers some breathtaking tools and features in order to render our lives more spicy. Thanks to Google maps you can pinpoint your location and use it as a GPS, than you can download a game based on your location, where you can compete with other players in your area, completing missions, like the first to be at a certain place near a monument or a famous statue. Iphone offers another application, whoswhere where you can see your friends that are  in the neighbourhood in order to ask them to join you to a party you have just been informed.  You can even play online games on your phone with others. The thing is that 3GM need to be connected to internet in order to be updated. Google has released recently their 3GM that will compete with its price and originality with Iphone and Blackberry, based on free software.

 

Your road trips will be more efficient thanks to Trapster, a Google application that enables you to know (with a vibration) where are located the “Speedometers” so you will have the time to slow down your velocity.

Mapsbuddy is another interesting application that works on Googlemaps, it shows you restaurants, clubs and bars in the neighbourhood (it knows exactly where you are), but the good thing about this application is that it shows you ratings by people who have already been  there.

It happened to everyone to stop in a country for lunch or diner without knowing the place and than begins the chase for a good restaurant. Do you see yourself in that situation? What happens next is the law of Murphy in action, the place is dirty, the prices are to high, the quality is low, the service is non existent ! but unfortunately there is no place left at walking distance, but perhaps thanks to Mapsbuddy you can be alert and stop a few kilometres further.

 

Sports tracker is another jewel application for Nokia smartphones, here you can train with you friends and gain miles running in the streets, already millions have downloaded the software.

 

In the future other smart application will emerge and the mobiles will be the next level of interactive network between people. In the future 3GM and 4GM will be used to do anything in our lives, from the virtual world to the real world; from buying clothes (your Sim card will be your ID card and Bank card at the same time), being a tools at school to your workspace. Therefore people will have more free time because it won’t be necessary to work in the office but from home or from some beach in the Caribbean.