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Useful Applications for Smartphone?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-is-a-phone-not-a-phone dept.

merlinbasenji asks: "I've recently purchased an Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone for Cingular, and I'm looking for suggestions for good applications like: calendars, browsers, games, email client, etc. Anyone have a favorite, or had a bad experience with specific applications?"

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  1. I have one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Personal geotracking and self-bugging device.

    Standard cell phones are fine for this, mind you, but it'll be ideal when remote activation and software installation is easier. (Likely it'll be a system like OnStar, allowing anyone with access to the data center to carry out undetectable surveillance on you, the unsuspecting phone owner.)

    I'm not saying this is inevitable. However, if people don't wake up and oppose these things (in the market and elsewhere) it's going the same way as everything else in our increasingly centralized society. Look at toll booth transponders. They were the perfect opportunity for closed-system anonymous digital transactions, but instead the architects opted to permanently record every car's travels.

    Your smartphone is going to be the same, unless you push for user control. That means phones that can be entirely open-source, with decentralized payment for access. Just don't hold your breath waiting for it.

  2. Def get a web browser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So can you log onto slashdot and see all the replies to your moronic question.

  3. The single most useful app by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I dont think anyone can deny that the most useful application anyone could possibly want from a smartphone is the dial out application. I find it absolutely invaluable. Its ability to take a series of numbers as input and use these to connect me to another person with whom I can have a conversation must be the most useful piece of software ever written.