The iPhone Applications

Over 1 billion mobile phones are sold every year worldwide. It is hard now to picture life without our cell phones and almost near impossible to know someone who does doesn’t possess one; whether you are 8, 18 or 80 the chances are you have a mobile phone. However, they have gone far beyond the original purpose and instead have become a mobile multimedia device that has revolutionized the way we think, work and interact. We will look into a new craze for the purpose of this article – iphone applications and how they have changed the way we use our phones.

iPhone Applications

Over 50,000 applications are available for the iphone and they range from the technologically brilliant to the convenient to just plain fun.

Take Shazam for instance. We’ve all heard a song that we like but never caught the name or artist. The tune and lyrics swirl around in our head as we desperately try to think of the musician but to no avail. With this app you can be sure this will not happen again. Shazam works by holding your iphone up so it can record a snippet of the track then, in seconds, Shazam provides you with the artist and song title.

Or what about Pocket First Aid & CPR Guide? This application can really help to save someone’s life. It provides detailed and current medical information from the American Heart Association that could be critical in a medical emergency. In addition it provides first aid videos too.

Just want the iphone for fun? You can get a virtual pint that empties as you title your iphone. Silly maybe but definitely humorous.

These are just 3 very small examples of the power of the iphone. However it begs a more extensive and vast question: where is mobile technology headed? These three applications show the enormous power that a mobile phone can produce, no longer is it just confined to calling people it is used for a vast array of tasks, whether they be fun, medical or convenient. Games, where you can be pitted against another player anywhere in the world, are some of the most popular applications. The days of beating your high score in snake are truly over.

Mobile Phone technology is advancing at an extraordinarily fast rate. The big question as we move into the second decade of this century will be: can the consumer keep up?

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