Thursday, November 14, 2013

Future of the Smartphone Apps – a General Overview



Today, the Smartphones have become an indispensable facet in our everyday lives. Apart from some of the basic needs of a phone like calling and texting, a Smartphone offers us multifarious amenities like web browsing, social networking, instant messaging, and many more. In fact, honestly speaking, today we can’t even imagine of a life without Smartphone.

And while speaking about the Smartphones, the thing that always rings bell in our head in none other than its world-famous applications (apps). Whether it is chatting with your pals 24*7 via WhatsApp or playing games like Mountain Bike Racing and SpeedMoto all day long, Smartphone apps fulfill all of your needs with utmost proficiency.

But, if truth be told, this is just a mere beginning. Smartphone apps have definitely more to offer in the upcoming days. In fact, some of the renowned mobile app developers have already started claiming that plenty of features are yet to come in the near future.

Let’s take the example of Hugo Barra, the Mobile Product Management Director of Google. According to Mr. Hugo, the Google researchers are currently trying their best to convert an unrealistic future into reality and one of its finest specimens is the newly launched Google Goggles. According to Mr. Hugo, the Goggles app is apt for traveling purpose. Just point this app at locations and buildings and it will automatically identify each of them and will provide you with all the necessary information regarding the same.

Mr. Hugo even stated that the next generation apps will also make full use of the sensors on both devices as well as networks. He even cited the example of speech recognition in this respect. According to him, this very concept of speech recognition has already been immense popular and with the creation of mobile app, it will make life more easy for the common people.

Again, according to Malcolm Barclay, another eminent mobile app developer, in the upcoming days the majority of the mobile apps will be operating through predictive analytics. In his opinion, the future Smartphone apps will play a significant role in predicting the behavior. For instance, the apps can offer real-time updates on any kind of problem that you may undergo while traveling. The apps may even help you to remember some of the crucial things like booking tickets according to your travel plan. According to Mr. Barclay, in the forthcoming days, you can even conduct some of the essential things like fixing doctor appointments through your Smartphone apps.

Again, if we go by the opinion of Windsor Holden, the Chief Analyst at Juniper Research, the Augmented Reality (AR) apps will be going to hit the market in the near future. According to Mr. Holden, the mobile apps will also start playing a pivotal role in health-related issues very soon. A day will soon come when a Smartphone app will provide you with the facility of diabetes testing.

You will also get to see quite a lot of creative mobile apps in the upcoming days. Apps like Mill Color, a visual-effects tool for photography and Michel Thomas, a language-learning app has already become quite popular among the masses. Moreover, with the increasing number of high-speed upstream bandwidth from mobile phones, music tagging apps like Shazam, barcode scanning apps, Google voice search, etc have also started attaining popularity among the users.

           


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