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Sacha [PersonRank 0]

Friday, August 29, 2008
15 years ago3,760 views

Locale not novel? I thought it was brilliant. Where has it been done before?

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

The Android apps are all presented together here in a very presentable PDF. You could print this out in color and it would make a great coffee-table book.

http://code.google.com/android/images/adc1r1_deck.pdf [PDF]

Incidentally, Google bought Android Inc in July 2005 but made no interesting announcement until November 2007. This shows that when Google buys another company, we shouldn't assume that the company or their projects have been buried just because we don't hear anything about them for a few years.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

> Locale not novel? I thought it was brilliant. Where has
> it been done before?

I had an app like that on my phone quite some time ago. I believe it was a Nokia/ Symbian OS some years ago (but perhaps I'm mixing this up in my phone history). The aim was for instance to automatically mute your phone when you enter the office.

Perhaps it was this one, not sure:

<<The SmartProfile enables your phone to work under proper profiles automatically according to your time schedules or your locations. For example, you may need your phone to be silent from 11 pm to 5 am every day, and be in meeting profile from 10:30 am to 11:30 am every Monday, all you need to do is to set up the schedule using SmartProfile, then the application will take care of setting your phone to use proper profiles automatically. Or you may need your phone to be silent in a cinema or a library, then just let SmartProfile remember the locations and it will change your phone's profiles accordingly for you!>>
http://shop.my-symbian.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=695&jid=AXAX9EA7135A49C5CE5C4XX1AFB8C8B2&platformId=4&productType=2&catalog=0&amp;sectionId=0&productId=201791

There was also another app I had which would automatically track movement and then take a snapshot with the camera... so you could create a surveillance cam by putting your phone in a strategic location and then waiting for a person to walk into the room when you're not there... more fun than truly useful perhaps but an interesting idea :)

Rylan Barnes [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

Google wouldn't let us link to our websites from their gallery. So check out GoCart at http://www.biggu.com

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

and how many will work outside the US?

Keggoid [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

SplashPlay didn't make it on the grounds of BlueTooth API being restricted on the 11th hour :(

Feedback most welcome: www.splashplay.mobi

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