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Smarter Phones Coming Soon
cofaboy writes "Down at Vulture Central there's an article regarding the next generation of smart phones. These things will learn to nag you if you try drinking too much the night before, learn who your friends are via bluetooth and more. "
Indeed. First they know where you are, now they're trying to find out what you have been doing, and if the project would succeed they would even know what you *will be* doing later on...
New phones will detect if you are drunk while typing SMS messages (amount of typos, speed of typing etc.). After the phone decides you are drunk it makes it impossible for you to communicate with your ex-girlfriend/wife etc. I KNOW this will be implemented in the near future!
....those location tracks together with a alcohol-breath track and statistics of your bank account could prove indeed useful.....
....the next day. ;)
Powerful is he who overpowers his temptations.
When we'll see a completely open-source phone OS?
While I'll agree that there's cause for concern about privacy, the whole system strikes me as a user friendly front end for accessing information that the cellphone companies likely already collect. Who you called? Obviously. Where you called from? Signal strength and tower location, at the very least. Who you're connecting with? Absolutely. Letting consumers get more out of this is cause to raise an eyebrow, but don't start putting on the tinfoil hats quite yet.
The original 'smart' agent responding in a semi lifelike manner. There's also the Aibo et alia.
But the first thing people are going to learn about this technology is how to turn it off in the rom.
With ever decreasing margins set aside for innovation, I predict the budget for value-adds that cost a lot of money, like Usability testing and embedded AI agents will shrink. At least they will when the marketting departments figure out that people don't really base their purchasing decisions on those metrics.
The mobile market is still reeling and trying to cope with the lack of interest in 3G Video calling and MMS. People will drop £200 for a Blackberry which deals mostly in Text over GPRS. They only pick a 3G handset because the carriers have slashed their prices to loss making.
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I think the tinfoil hat types might want to delve into Signalling System number 7. (SS7 - CCCIT7)
It's a pretty complicated beast, but with access to the stream in a few key locations, your mobile telephone already gives away a metric crapload of information about the user.
(Tinfoil hat weenies)
'But my phone uses an encrypted signal!'
Yeah, well, that little micowave dish on the cell station 'does not'. GSM vocoders aren't too complicated to figure out.
Think big database, and multiple SS7 inputs.
Google is your friend! (It allows you to swell your sense of fear and paranoia to ever soaring heights when used correctly)
Yes, it's the server that does the processing, the phone is gathering all the information via your calender, appointment book and B/T connections.
Don't blame me for the write up, it got mullered by the editors
In the end, It's all bovine dung you know