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Using the iPhone As a Pointing Device For the Real World
Zrop writes "With a combination of GPS, Wi-FI-positioning, compass, and accelerometers, the iPhone is turbocharged for location-based services. Combine this with the new 3.0 iPhone OS and interesting things are certainly going to happen. Steve Jobs said that the iPhone will change the world when he presented it back in 2007, and that is exactly what it will do." The bulk of the article is about using the phone as a super real world pointer, which could be really cool if it could be accurate enough to be useful, although not particularly ergonomic. (Are you pointing the screen at something? The camera? The headphone jack?)
You can pocket your tablet PC? Amazing!
The point is that the iPhone is a device capable of all kinds of neat things, even if it's not the absolute best at any one thing. Jack of all trades, if you will. I mean, a Canon EOS 5D Mark II will take MUCH better pictures than a silly iPhone. Why would you even take pictures with a phone when the camera is so much better? Even if you're a master of none, being a Jack of all trades really makes for an interesting device that lets you do things you can't do with anything else.
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