| Smartphones
can access not only WAP contents on the wireless internet,
but also regular HTML web sites. A smartphone typically has
relatively large and color screens to render web contents.
Smartphone browsers (e.g., the Opera browser) can automatically
reformat the HTML page for small screen display.
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But perhaps even more important is that smartphones
can access Web 2.0 contents such as blogs, RSS, podcasting,
P2P social networks, etc. For instance, you can post stories
to your own blog or podcasting site at the time when the story
happens, and read other people's P2P contents to stay updated
all the time. To parse RSS and other Web 2.0 contents on the
smartphone, you would probably need to install additional
software or work with special mobile gateway servers.
Integrate Location Information
Location-based services are touted as the
next killer application for mobile computing. A smartphone
can obtain its current location by integrating a GPS receiver
or connecting to existing portable GPS receivers. If a GPS
is not available, some smartphones can obtain location information
by triangulating nearby cellular service towers, or simply
identifying the cell ID of the current service tower.
Using the location information, you can tag
your blog/photo postings with your location, search businesses
or points of interests in your vicinity, get driving directions,
or even change the phone's settings automatically depending
on where you are (e.g., when you are at home, the phone would
not ring when your boss calls).
Another type of location service is the ability
to form ad hoc local networks. Using Bluetooth technology,
some smartphone applications allow you to detect people in
your vicinity and you can initiate a personal contact when
someone's published profile meets your interests. Some businesses
(e.g., retail stores) have Bluetooth services to send coupons
or even multimedia contents to your smartphone while you are
visiting.
Share Multimedia Contents
Today's smartphone typically has a built-in
digital camera and a sound recorder. You can not only take
still photos, but also movie clips with the smartphone. With
the prevalence of MMS services, you can easily send the photos
and movie clips to other smartphones or friends' email addresses.
With some additional software, you can post
those contents to your blog or photo sharing/printing web
sites like flickr.com. Another approach for multimedia sharing
is to simply download the camera phone photos and movie clips
to your computer via Bluetooth, and share them from there.
In addition to multimedia-contents capturing,
the smartphone can also be used as a networked multimedia
player. You can get contents from your friends over MMS or
email. You can also watch TV or other wireless contents via
streaming media players like the RealOne player or Microsoft
MediaPlayer.
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