The maps on the iphone aren't going to be particularly good either. With a GPS enabled cell phones however the map feature becomes very useful. Hopefully apple will add this to the feature set.
Must be remembered, this is a 1.0 release, and from reports a good one...ver 2 I believe will be very interesting. Mike On 7/6/07, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How much can you do with an interface limited by the physical size of >a cell phone? Even if you were using voice recognition, you would need >privacy (and probably a place to sit) why is this any different from >laptops. And why would you say that smart phones are driving web-apps? I think Apple's "calamari" demo is a good case. Google maps are great, but are not available at the location where they would have the most value. I tried pre-loading maps into my Palm, but that was not particularly convenient -- printing out was far more useful. But then before leaving on a trip I would spend an hour printing maps of the route and enlargements of the tricky parts. Even then we got lost more than once and my printed maps were useless. On the road I had no access to directions "on demand." The "calamari" demo shows maps as they ought to be. Maps can't be the only service of this type that woule be useful. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
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