Mika Raento is yet another person, who promotes the need of integration for the modern mobile devices. There is so many useful things a mobile can do and so little ways of making different apps interoperate in practice.
We have (e.g.) the following pieces, none of which are really hot on their own:
- a PIM calendar (organizing your time)
- your mobile phone profile (making the phone not ring when you are at the movies)
- cameraphone (taking bad photos and maybe sending them via MMS)
- GPS (navigation)
- heart rate sensor on your fitness watch (tracking the level of exercise when running)
- Bluetooth (sending business cards?)
- smartphone and 3G connection (reading e-mail)
What if we make these play together?
Mika is a researcher on the ContextPhone project that is aimed exactly at making it easily possible to integrate the "background" information into the applications.