Mobiles getting Smarter

Mobile Phones are possibly the most personal technical gadget one uses today. It remains with us when we wake up, when we go out to work or party and it even stays nearby when we are sleeping. Scientists at MIT are now trying to get this device monitor our lifestyle to help us keep a track of our lives.

They plan to convert it into our digital secretaries, which could tell us when we are ignoring our social life and so on. And for this, they are conducting a test with around 100 MIT students. They are installing a mobile messaging software called Context developed at the University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Technology led by Mika Raento on Nokia 6600 smartphones.

These phones would monitor the telephone calls and their timings, the use of the camera and the surroundings for additional Bluetooth enabled phones to gauge the lifestyle of the individual! The data would then be feeded in a centralized MIT server, which would process upon it using pattern recognition software.

It all kind of sounds like privacy invading in the first look. But if implemented successfully, it can lead to possible revolution in the mobile industry.

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