How cell phones will replace learning

[dhilipkumar]

How cell phones will replace learning

"Can you fly that thing?" The idea of using a cell phone for prosthetic knowledge is precisely where we're headed. In fact, we're getting there fast.

Two such advancements happened this week. The first is Microsoft's introduction of Bing 411. A competitor to GOOG-411, the free service offers an enormous amount of information via voice phone call.

You can get audio turn-by-turn directions, find out about traffic conditions, get the weather, find out what movies are playing, and connect to any business. You can teach it where you work and where you live, so in future you can say "work" and "home" and it knows exactly what you're talking about.

The new phone operating system, called WebOS, offers a feature called Universal Search. To use it, simply pick up the phone and start typing. Press the first letter, then the second, and already the phone starts finding contacts, appointments, notes and other data on the phone that start with the letters you typed.

Once the combination of letters is beyond what is in the phone's storage, the Pre shows you four options: Google, Maps, Wikipedia and Twitter. Press one, and you're searching that service. The reason this is an advancement is that the steps have been reduced to three:

1. Type query; 2. Pick search engine; and 3. Choose result.

Compare this with the number of steps on an iPhone:

1. Press Safari icon; 2. Press open-book icon in browser; 3. Press Google option; 4. Press search bar; 5. Type query; 6. Press Go; and 7. Choose result.
The Palm Pre requires three steps, the iPhone seven.


for more details refer: computerworld