Wikitude is a handy application for planning a trip or to find out about landmarks in your surroundings; 350,000 world-wide points of interest may be searched by GPS or by address. The truly compelling feature is the cam view, users may hold the phone’s camera against a spectacular mountain range and see the names and heights displayed as overlay mapped with the mountains in the camera. Users may look out of an airplane window to see what is down there. Users may walk through a city like Seville, Spain, holding the phone’s camera against a building and Wikitude tells what it is.

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TokPlay is a mobile application that broadcasts a user’s voice via multimedia-based messages; it is ideal for people wishing to converse with friends, family and others. TokPlay uses short 15-second videos and voice data as basic conversation media even for replying or commenting.

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Whether you’re planning your week, your day, or the next hour, The Weather Channel Mobile delivers the tools you need to be prepared. Unlike other weather applications, The Weather Channel offers interactive maps with customizable weather layers and neighborhood points-of-interest. Speech-enabled severe weather alerts will actually wake up your device and tell you about severe weather so you can get to safety. You can even share the alert, as well as other weather information, with others in your address book via sms or email.

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SynchroSpot’s mission is to provide users with a whole new class of location-based mobile software. Location-based reminders allow users to input reminders into their phone and the phone will asynchronously alert them whenever they are near the given location with their reminder (e.g. Pick up milk the next time you’re at the supermarket). Advertisers and the user will also find the offers feature valuable. (e.g. A nearby clothing store offers you 20% off your clothing purchase if you stop in within the next 3 hours and show the ad on your phone). Advertisers can be large national chains or local mom and pop shops as even the smallest vendors will be able to manage their own ads via a web site.

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Sustain helps throttle communication. Users can download news and RSS feeds relevant to their contacts and instantly share them. Users can also see which contacts would be the most likely to be in their vicinity. Unique features like auto-replies that trigger when particular calls are missed and reminders that pop-up when particular calls are answered allow users to maintain seamless interaction with their contacts.

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For people who enjoy music and want to learn to play their favorite songs on a musical instrument, SplashPlay offers a mobile application that lets you practice and experience music in an easy and enjoyable way, wherever you are. SplashPlay features a virtual guitar that invites the user for a playful exploration of chords through the touch screen. Favorite songs and tuition videos can be downloaded and shared through the SplashPlay website. Chords appear in sync on the mobile phone and with optionally available hardware, also on the real instrument.

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SocialMonster offers a rich set of functions that allow sharing of information under the context of an event where participants can interact with each other, post instant messages, map location tags, share photos, polls, etc. SocialMonster helps users build a circle of friends where relationships are maintained and discovered via social events. Users can discover mutual friends, new friendships, and keep existing relationships healthy. SocialMonster elevates traditional point-to-point communication to a context-based, group-oriented communication. Users can reach multiple parties without the hassle of making dozens of phone calls.

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Text entry is indispensable in productivity and collaboration applications such as email, IM, and SMS. Without a large physical keyboard, slow text entry cripples these applications on touch screen based mobile phones. ShapeWriter lets the user simply slide a finger or stylus from letter to letter on a touch screen keyboard and lift to complete an entire word. The approximate stroke gesture is recognized as the intended word. ShapeWriter on Android supports three activities: WritingPad, gTalk, and Balloon Game. All three demonstrate and take advantage of ShapeWriter’s core technology.

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What if you were being attacked? Could you protect yourself and call for help at the same time? Could you dial 911? What if the phone could help? What if the phone could contact everyone in your SafetyNet telling them of your situation? Maybe provide your location? What if the phone could distract an assailant by sounding a loud siren plus activating a voice track announcing each function as it happens? What if your phone started capturing images of the scene? What if your phone could dial 911 and what if it did all of this by simply shaking it?

“Shake to Activate” is the driving force behind the simplicity of the SafetyNet application. By monitoring an on board accelerometer, SafetyNet can detect when a user is forcefully shaking the device in an effort to call for help, even if the application has not been launched.

“Safety Zones” is a SafetyNet feature that takes advantage of Android’s Location Based Manager. This will enable the “Shake to Activate” feature only when it is needed, helping to optimize your battery’s performance while maintaining access to the simplicity of a SafetyNet automated alert.

Medical Alert can use Google’s GTalk technology to notify everyone in your SafetyNet that you are experiencing a Medical emergency. Plus, it activates a voice track that can capture the attention of first responders and provide critical medical information to them even if you can’t.

Author: Michael DeJadon

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PedNav is an application that helps you plan your activities efficiently when moving around and interacting with an urban environment. It helps you select your daily activities using well-organized listings and lets you specify the time constraints for each of these activities while finding the most suitable public transportation and/or walking directions to each destination. PedNav is the ideal application for anyone who desires a one-stop shop for organizing their day, whether for a business trip, a shopping expedition, or an entertaining night out.

The ‘Places’ feature allows the user to browse for venues by address or the current GPS location. Users are able to browse through categories to find what they are looking for, or the search feature may be used to find venues in any category.

The ‘Itineraries’ feature asks users to select venues and assign time constraints (eg. “I want to be at Union Square by 11:00 am”). PedNav then creates a step-by-step itinerary, with public transit and walking directions, telling the user when to go where and how to get there.

Author: RouteMe2 Technologies Inc.
Additional Contributors: Amir Malik, Shawn Bohonos, Roberto Manduchi

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