This morning during my RSS read ritual I stumbled upon 3 companies which on their own will make a difference. But if someone will put together the products that these companies offer will make a paradigm shift in the way we are using mobile phones.
Cubic Telecom offers a programmable SIM card. That SIM can be configured with different mobile numbers based on your location. If I go to UK I could use an UK number. If I stay in Romania I should use a romanian number. Also their SIM is able to detect the WIFI networks and automatically switch to the WIFI network for VOIP calls. This company is lowering the cost of the calls.
Yap is a company which provides speech to text and text to speech services on mobile phones. It seems that they support only the english language for the moment. They allow you to send / receive text messages and emails without using the keyboard.
Cognitive Code (the link points to a presentation of the company) offers SILVIA (Symbolically Isolated, Linguistically Variable, IntelligenceAlgorithms) platform which is a complete system for the development and deployment of intelligent applications to almost any platform, with a technological core that allows humans to interact with computers in completely natural and intuitive ways. The platform helps derive context and meaning from user inputs, via speech, text, or other methods, so you can communicate with the platform as if it were another person. This is their marketing talk 
For the normal persons around: is a product which implements the concept Do What I Mean on any platform, including mobile phones. It has some basic AI stuff inside and as I see it now it seems it works.
I can only hope that the rumored Gphone when it will appear will have Yap and SILVIA on it or maybe will support it in a future software update.
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