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iEvent for iPhone

Submitted by: fidoogle
Created: Jan 11, 2007, 2:57 pm

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The Idea

The scene: u r at a basketball game at a stadium equipped with WiFi. As u walked into the stadium your phone received a seating map of stadium. Many other fans are there sitting all over the stadium with their own iPhones. Each fan is videocaming their view of the game and is being broadcast to other iPhones. In addition, the TV cameras at the stadium are also broadcasting, thru WiFi, their video footage to the iPhones. With your iPhone u view the seating map of the stadium and see all the pin markers of all the iPhones and TV cameras available for viewing. U pick a camera and view the game from that angle in real time. U have to go to the rest room but don't want to miss a second of the game, so u take your iPhone with u. Their are also people outside the stadium with iPhones who could not get a ticket to the game, but are able to view the game thru all the available cameras as well. Now think about a local high school baseball game, where there is no WiFi. Fans with iPhones share vi

I thought of this idea when I was...

I first thought that this app should be called iSportster, but then I realized it applies to more than just sporting events. The concept comes from the movie The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. In the movie we see groups of kids watching the cars race by and using their phones' built-in videocams to broadcast the race to other groups of kids further down the racetrack. At every turn of the racetrack there are kids doing the same thing with their phones, thereby eveyone is viewing the race from different angles in real time. The phones are able to broadcast the video to other phones. Because this applies to more than just games, think about what other types of events this could be useful at. For example, at a parade u often wonder what's coming down the road next. Well up the road there are people with iPhones videocaming the parade and u can see their footage thru your iPhone. Think about how a security officer with an iPhone can tap into all the security cameras at a store no matt

Comments Posted

_Matt_ Posted: January 12, 2007, 2:14 am

None of these ideas will fly if Jobs has his way..!!

lol iPhone

http://apple.slashdo...430200&from=rss

Doymarn Posted: January 14, 2007, 4:41 pm

This is a good idea and not limited to just the IPhone, although i understand the marketing benefit of pitching it for the IPhone:)

As far as Job's statement about third party developments... well that's just a political statement made to appease his relationship with Cingular. Even he admits in another interview, Apple can't stop third party developments, they are just not encouraging them.

However, with a fully fledged browser and Wifi on board the phone then there are no restrictions for doing things like this and other devs.

Also, i just see the IPhone as the start of a new generation of PDA/phones that will now start to hit the markets, so Internet/Wifi centric widget or gadget developments designed with these phones in mind will be a huge opportunity. They can be more ubiquitous than the ringtones for mobiles.

saigon Posted: July 9, 2007, 1:19 am

iTHINK you over sell iPHONE but as Doymarn said which i agrees ..it has potential!

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