There was an interesting article over at ZDnet last week in which David Watkins, Multimedia Sales Director Nokia APAC was quoted as saying 'GPS will work its way from niche product to mainstream functionality and will one day be considered as ubiquitous as the cameraphone is today'.
This is great news for the location based content market and for anyone looking at harnessing the new age of integrated sensors.
So a quick question I would like to pose - what is the sucessor to GPS in the line of mobile device 'must haves'? Personally I think it will be a mix of varied user interfaces including ePaper, OLED wrappable screens and sensory devices.
On the sensor side I would have to suggest digital compases (we will talk about these soon) heart rate monitors, motion sensors (see Nokia's 5500 which came out last year - no it wasn't you Apple who were the first to integrate one even though you like to say so), temperature and light sensors (the later Apple does have in the IPhone) are close followers in my books.
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