Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones

#1

Post by yearsinrock » Mon, May 18, 2009, 11:33 AM UTC

what cell phone application would you want to use which require a good deal of computing power(using parallel computing or other).I myself would like to implement many basic photoshop image enhancement features for images taken in cellphones on cellphones.

My objective is to build an application which uses the gpus processing power as in parallel computing,eg. joining large images together on a cellphone itself.

Re: Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones

#2

Post by mattlarge » Mon, May 18, 2009, 11:49 AM UTC

I'd like some decent Augmented Reality apps/games, proper AR rather than the barcode based stuff. Something that could recognise an environment and overlay cool stuff. A decent camera, GPS, compass and good processing power are all required. Figure between G1 and iPhone 3 we might be getting there.

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#3

Post by radu_floricica » Mon, May 18, 2009, 11:54 AM UTC

I'd really like a complex and easy to use "personal assistant", with voice recording/voice recognition in addition to typing. Something where I can press at most two-three keys and record "milk" to the shopping list or "Mail X about the problem Y" to the TODO list.

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#4

Post by yearsinrock » Mon, May 18, 2009, 12:04 PM UTC

mattlarge wrote: post #2

I'd like some decent Augmented Reality apps/games, proper AR rather than the barcode based stuff. Something that could recognise an environment and overlay cool stuff. A decent camera, GPS, compass and good processing power are all required. Figure between G1 and iPhone 3 we might be getting there.

what specifically in augmented reality?

Re: Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones

#5

Post by mattlarge » Mon, May 18, 2009, 12:12 PM UTC

yearsinrock wrote: post #4

mattlarge wrote: post #2

I'd like some decent Augmented Reality apps/games, proper AR rather than the barcode based stuff. Something that could recognise an environment and overlay cool stuff. A decent camera, GPS, compass and good processing power are all required. Figure between G1 and iPhone 3 we might be getting there.

what specifically in augmented reality?

Check out some of the demos on the http://www.tinmith.net site, or http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/Projects/. I love the demo where a group of people draw on a virtual map and the person on campus sees the draw arrows to guide them.

Re: Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones

#6

Post by tocomment » Mon, May 18, 2009, 12:51 PM UTC

1. Universal translator * 2. Scale 3. way to measure calories 4. Always listening so I can ask it questions and have it google them for me and read out the answers. All without taking it out of my pocket.

* Honestly I'd be happy with a good enough approach here. Just recognize whatever words it can (even 10% or less) and show the google translate translations scrolling down my screen. If I can just discern the subject of a conversation once in a while, I'm still way better off than understanding nothing.

Re: Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones

#7

Post by thalur » Mon, May 18, 2009, 12:57 PM UTC

tocomment wrote: post #6

1. Universal translator * 2. Scale 3. way to measure calories 4. Always listening so I can ask it questions and have it google them for me and read out the answers. All without taking it out of my pocket. * Honestly I'd be happy with a good enough approach here. Just recognize whatever words it can (even 10% or less) and show the google translate translations scrolling down my screen. If I can just discern the subjec…

I would want a translator to be offline though (or someone else to pay the roaming data charges for me).

Re: Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones

#8

Post by tocomment » Mon, May 18, 2009, 1:06 PM UTC

thalur wrote: post #7

tocomment wrote: post #6

1. Universal translator * 2. Scale 3. way to measure calories 4. Always listening so I can ask it questions and have it google them for me and read out the answers. All without taking it out of my pocket. * Honestly I'd be happy with a good enough approach here. Just recognize whatever words it can (even 10% or less) and show the google translate translations scrolling down my screen. If I can just discern the subjec…

I would want a translator to be offline though (or someone else to pay the roaming data charges for me).

ok done.

Re: Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones

#9

Post by braindead_in » Mon, May 18, 2009, 1:31 PM UTC

Analytics of Phone usage. Graphs showing time and money spent on the phone.

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#10

Post by igorgue » Mon, May 18, 2009, 1:55 PM UTC

braindead_in wrote: post #9

Analytics of Phone usage. Graphs showing time and money spent on the phone.

t-mobile provides an app for that. Its in the G1 Android Market