Cool Cell Phone Applications

Making applications for cell-phone is becoming big business now. Whether it be creating applications for Apple’s touch-screen iPhone or Google’s new Android Operating System, developers the world over have tremendous opportunities to make money. Also, with the cell phone moving from just being a phone towards being an essential tool for modern day life, it represents a new territory for entrepreneurs to exploit.

Posted by Aditya Maru

So here, we share some links to some interesting articles about applications for cell phones.

Android Developers Challenge Winners
Google is coming up with a new Operating System for cell phones. So for it, they held a competition for developers to come up with cool applications. Here is the link that provides info about the winners of the competition. Some of the applications are truly breakthroughs.
http://phandroid.com/2008/05/10/adc-round-1-winners/

Compare Everywhere- Shop Smarter Using Your Phone
The following is the link to one of the coolest Android Applications. It’s software which allows you to:

·         Scan any barcode on a product and instantly search dozens of online and local stores, finding out if that “sale price” really is a good deal.

·         Read product reviews, listen to music clips, and watch movie trailers with a single tap.

·         Easily connect with stores in your area using driving directions or a phone call.

·         Quickly build shopping lists, wish lists, and share them with friends.

Here is the link that gives more info. The Demo is truly amazing.
http://scan.jsharkey.org/

Apple Store
The Apple Store is a an online portal which contains applications developed solely for the iPhone. There are nearly 800 applications now. These applications are developed by private developers. When iPhone owners buy them from the Apple Store, Apple just gets a 30% cut, while 70% goes to the developers. According to Steve Jobs, the sales of applications at the Apple Store have nearly reached $ 1 Million Per Day. The iPhone represents a cool opportunity for developers with its touch-screen interface, accelerometer, and OS X.

Here is the link to the Apple Store if u want to see some of the applications.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/

Banking with fingerprints and house calls
Banks the world over are working with small software companies and developers to develop mobile banking software. Mobile banking means that customers will be able to make transactions like transfer of funds, withdrawal, etc. with just a phone.
Here is the link to an article which gives info about a collaboration between different companies to provided mobile banking in New Delhi, India. The technology is truly amazing.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/01/20/banking_with_fingerprints_and_house_calls/

Here are the links to some of the companies that develop software which enable banking services from cell phones. These different companies have competing technologies. They are working with banks like Citibank, Axis Bank, State Bank of India, etc. to scale up their operations.
http://www.classifeye.com/
http://www.alittleworld.com/
They all use fingerprints to identify customers and then facilitate transactions with the respective banks on their behalf.

The future is bright for the cell phone applications industry. Hope you make money off it!