Mad4MobilePhones looks at a patent filed by Google which includes predicting phone calls and actions based upon time and location and may be part of the upcoming Google Phone project.
The patent, Nonstandard locality-based text entry, was filed in 2005.
This patent is truly groundbreaking in what the application could do. Imagine that you are planning a night out in London.
- At 6pm Google could predict you are looking for a restaurant and, given your history of looking for directions to Chinese restaurants every week, would select an array of suitable places for you to eat.
- At 9pm you would turn your phone on again and Google would know you wanted bars near the restaurant.
- At 11pm Google again predicts you need a list of local taxi firms.
More from Patent: Google Phone knows what you want before you search.
Interesting concept. But you have to be a so boring routine guy to get it to work as it seem!
The crucial aspect of both the Google Phone and the iPhone, is that they’re data-centric consumer handsets, which treat the mobile network operators as nothing more than “dumb pipes”. There’s an intriguing article on this topic at: http://www.robinontech.com/2007/03/10/mobile-operators-as-dumb-pipes/