Converged Products: Week of 9/10/06
The most convenient way that mobility is getting built into products is through the convergence into the cellphone of capabilities that previously existed as standalone products. That way, those products are now with you and available for your use whenever you need them wherever you go.
- Cellphone as integrated, context-sensitive yellow pages
- Cellphone as election scoreboard
- Cellphone as secure mobile intercom
- Cellphone as TV
- Cellphone as Fosters
- Cellphone as tape recorder
- Cellphone as shopping assistant
- Cellphone as sports page
- Cellphone as eBook? (well, rumor has it that it’s got EVDO…)
- Cellphone as worldphone
- Cellphone as Zune
- Cellphone as home security system
- Cellphone as live traffic report
- Cellphone as hearing aid
- Cellphone as MTV
- Cellphone as comedy club
- Cellphone as friend finder