Phones That Rule Everything

摘要

The existing and emerging smart-phone applications shown here draw upon mobile devices' inherent power, sensing and location-finding capacities, access to Internet-based "cloud" services, and burgeoning popularity.Location technologies can serve a variety of purposes. GPS chips and location identifiers based on Wi-Fi signal strength allow people to find and map friends or colleagues. Cameras and network connections allow not only real-time photo updates but also search applications that call upon cloud resources to identify what's in the photo—and even to translate text.