Engineering Students Develop Project For Nokia Research Lab in Bangalore

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At an age when everything is going nano, two city-based engineering students are working on shrinking the applications of a computer to a hand-held mobile phone. The idea is simple. Any mobile phone user who wishes to develop a new application on his phone can do so without the help of computers.‘

’It can be anything. You can develop and customise applications on your mobile phone and you would never need computers,’’ explain Ajay M A and Aswin Kumar, final year Computer Engineering students at Government Engineering College, Barton Hill. The project has already been approved by Nokia and the two youngsters will give final touches to their innovative program at the Nokia Research Lab in Bangalore. Once the project is materialised, any person with a smart phone can develop his own applications on the phone.'

'If you want to design a new website you don’t have to seek the help of a computer expert. You can easily design it yourself on your phone with the help of the program that would work on ‘drag-and-drop’ method. Accordingly, you can introduce alterations in the existing applications and even develop and enjoy new games and other web applications on your phone,’’ says Ajay.

This program-enabled smart phones would eventually efface desktops from the scene, they say. ‘’The major advantage of this technique, as we would like to put it, is that even a common man can avail himself of the latest technology. The mobile phone technology is no longer limited to IT experts. With our program, a man with the most rudimentary knowledge about mobile phones can redesign the applications on his phone to his liking,’’ says Aswin. The boys are least apprehensive about the argument that since the program only works in a smart phone, all the advantages will evade the common man. ‘’The prices of smart phones are dipping considerably. Within the next two years, a smart phone will be available at highly affordable prices.’’

If everything goes as per the plan, the program developed by these youngsters would define the next generation phones. Aswin and Ajay were noted by Nokia when their project won first prize at a tech fest held in the city two months back. The boys have also come up with a travel guide application with the help of Android, an operating system used on mobile phones. They have worked out a faster, more accurate, global positioning system (GPS) with less power consumption.'

’At present, smart phones can be used to find current locations with the help of maps. However, it is not very useful to those who are not familiar with maps. Our technology will provide you with all the necessary details about a particular location on a single click,’’ says Aswin. The students who already run their own company named ‘Zyspace Innovations’ also plan to extend this application using SMS so that even low-end phones can also utilise this facility. ‘’Our idea is to make the most of mobile phone technology by bringing it closer to the common man. The possibilities of this technology are immense once it becomes more interactive with the middle class people,’’ believes Ajay.

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