Google’s Andy Rubin thinks this of the future of mobile:
Smart alerts: Your phone will be smart about your situation and alert you when something needs your attention.
Augmented reality: Your phone uses its arsenal of sensors to understand your situation and provide you information that might be useful.
Crowd sourcing goes mainstream: Your phone is your omnipresent [...]
It’s not specifically about mobile, but when Marissa Meyer of Google writes about the future of search it’s worth paying attention.
“So what’s our straightforward definition of the ideal search engine? Your best friend with instant access to all the world’s facts and a photographic memory of everything you’ve seen and know. That search engine could [...]
July’s Wired tells the story of Android.
“As soon as programmers started playing with the emulator, they saw how big Google’s ambitions were. The company was trying to make programming for a cell phone analogous to programming for a PC or the Web. Coders were told that their applications would have constant access to the Net, [...]
Scott Jenson, leading Google’s mobile efforts, talks about why mobile search is different.
(for those on the RSS, follow the link for the video)
Link: MEX 2008: Scott Jenson, Google (youtube.com)
Stephen Wellman describes the six key elements that Google considers when designing mobile applications. “Understanding users, anywhere, anytime” is one of them:
“Rechis said that Google breaks down mobile users into three behavior groups: A. “Repetitive now” B. “Bored now” C. “Urgent now”
“The “repetitive now” user is someone checking for the same piece of information over [...]
Published by Gabriel White.