Mobile 2.0 Trends
Tagged Under : GPS, Mobile
My favorite blog put up a great article on Mobile web trends today. They have some great resources available and it gives a good perspective on where things are moving with the mobile web. The startups to watch was the most interesting to me, I’m definitely going to check out those sites…
The What’s Next section was also very interesting. But there’s one issue that I keep thinking about that will probably slow down development on applications that actually use some of those fancy technologies. I’m talking about hardware that the phone has but that the browser cant use! GPS, sensoring, biometics, image recognition, etc… most of these things will require the user to download and install an application to use the actual hardware on the device. I’m really curious to see how things develop. I own a phone with GPS built in and I wish there was a way to build a webapp that could access the user’s location (with permission of course).
Maybe its just me, but I sort of avoid downloading and installing things on my phone. And as a developer I would rather spend my time developing web applications that can be used by many different types of phones without having to make special releases for every make and model that exists.
