Posts tagged application
Jul 25th
At this point in time, finding your way around town has been limited to using a program like Google Maps, searching for the place you are looking for, and getting directions there. However, Enkin is going to revolutionize how we use our GPS systems. With Enkin, you can instantly change between the standard sattelite view and a “live” view. The live view takes advantage of mobile devices built-in camera, allowing users to view find where they are going in 3D. The live view displays the name of your desination(s) and how far away you are from them, which makes it really easy to get to where you want to go. The creators of Enkin made a video showing off all of the great features in Enkin:
You probably noticed that the creators said that they entered Enkin into the Google Android project, and even though Enkin didn’t make it into the Top 50 Android Apps, Google personally contacted the makers of Enkin to discuss the “future of Enkin.” Hopefully Enkin will be on our Google-powered phones sooner rather than later.
Aug 20th
As I was reading through my RSS Feeds on RSSOwl (maybe I’ll review it later?), I read about this new app for the iPhone developed by Dave Philips. He calls it: “The iPhone18 Golf Score Card,” and it is pretty much a golf score card for those people who would rather use their fancy new iPhone to log their golf stats instead of that old stuff called paper and pencil. The mighty features of this app include having up to four (fore?) players in one round, 18 holes, and automagic score calculations at the end of the round.
I will admit that it isn’t that bad of an idea; if I had an iPhone I would give it a try sometime. But this goes to show how much developers think that the iPhone is the new phone. They believe that everyone will be using it, so they make crazy stuff like this just to prove it. But what about phones like the Helio Ocean (way cooler than the iPhone, in my opinion), who don’t have the Safari browser, thus making them useless to access all of these cool new iPhone apps that people are making? Developers, think about it, and remember that people do use other phones besides the iPhone.