It’s not often I get excited about mobile phone apps. Admittedly I was never particularly warm to the iphone but admittedly I do love it’s usability over my Samsung Windows Mobile phone (although I have now tweaked the interface to make it work the same). But the iPhone had apps that were just easier to find and worked unlike the Windows Mobile Marketplace selection.
I have been waiting years to get a single device to replace my pda, gps, bluetooth, mobile phone, usb drive, wireless network drive and usb dongle that would actually work. My wait is over.
I paid for Tom Tom for my Samsung Windows Mobile but I found it ordinary. The app that caught my attention was NavFree for iPhone, iPod and iPad and now I have the final feature, turn by turn gps navigation, on my iPhone and it’s good. Packed with more features than my existing Tom Tom navigation which I paid for and with Google Local, Facebook and Twitter integration how could I not get excited. Navmii also produce software for most other operating systems.
If we can trust everything we’ve ever been told in movies, and I’m pretty sure we can, this next decade should be abundant with mind-bending technology. Back to the Future Part II taught us that flying cars that run on garbage could be here as soon as 2015 and it looks as though Richard Branson will ensure space travel is available well.. to those of us willing to part with a few hundred thousand dollars per journey. Yes, the future is here and now that we’ve traded in our pocket calculators for iPhones, our floppy disks for flash memory and our thesauruses for Google.. what will the modern office look like in the decade to come, and, how will our work lives and interactions change as a result?
Tablet Wars – just an iFad? Those of you safely living above ground have more than likely noticed the sheer number of friends, family members and colleagues using the iPad. The device has gained such popularity that it’s common for the I Know IT team to be setting these up on a daily basis as well as field questions about their use in business. Rather than declare my undying love for the iPad (I really do love the iPad) I think it’s important [...]
