Inspired by Thomas Martinsen, a dk Silverlight guru, this post collects a few ideas about the less used user interfaces in the PC world, but easily obtainable in the mobile world.
Having six devices to code towards in mind:
- Touch Screen
- Accelerometer
- Bluetooth
- RFID
- GPS
- SMS
Many cell phones has all 6 pieces of HW included. So if you developed mobile services that could expose the HW facilities to a client PC (connected either through mini-USB, old fashioned serial, wlan or bluetooth), then you would get enormous application possiblities.
I blogged about Accelerometer, RFID and SMS usage before. At that post the accelerometer was a Wii NunChuck . Nowadays the accelerometer is build into the mobile phone and API’s has emerged.
WinMo 6.5 SDK was removed last month. Maybe WinMo 7 SDK is what Microsoft developers should have to get API’s for the 6 devices?
Thomas has spoken about touch screen development towards a device from Microsoft called Surface. I wouln’t be surprised if he is experienced in the field. Join the LinkeIn group.
Another keyword is Panel PC.
Currently I won’t collect more info, but I might return with an update to the post one day.
So for now you might just be inspired as well :-).
The End.
