3 Most Useful and 3 Most Useless Phone Innovations

Source of Article from CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/28/tech/weird-mobile-world-congress/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6

As an owner of a smartphone myself, I understand the every day struggles of dealing with a dying phone battery, a battery-eating color screen display, and the fear of dropping my phone into the school's bathroom toilet. Reading this article, I have chosen the 3 best and the 3 worst improvements presented at this year's Mobile World Congress.

3 Best
1. The YotaPhone--the selling point of this phone is it's dual screen with the option of viewing a color or monochrome screen. The biggest battery eaters in smartphones today is the high resolution color screen. Having the option of viewing a battery-saving monochrome screen will definitely give me less panic attacks of when my phone will die during school.

2. Ford Sync AppLink--I love using Spotify as my every day music player so having Spotify linked with my car will make listening to music on the go so much more convenient. The voice control option will also make driving safer as I can just simply talk to my phone to change songs instead of taking my eyes off the road to search for songs.

3. Wysips Voltaic Display--I love the idea of a simple and cheap transparent film having the ability to charge your phone anywhere you go. The versatility of the film's function of being able to charge the phone in either sunlight or moonlight makes it incredibly convenient.

3 Worst
1. Fingerprint Security Lock--As ingenious and creative as the idea sounds, I can only imagine so many problems arising from a security lock like this. Some laptops utilize this technology and it is known for it to falter. For a gadget as important as a phone, I would prefer not to risk locking my phone for eternity  in case the fingerprint technology does have problems.

2. Paddle shopping--While the idea of it is very concise and useful-sounding, I just don't know of many people that do their online shopping through their phones, with the exception of buying apps. I doubt an app like this will garner much attention,

3. Sensirion temperature senors--While this idea may sound to be very convenient, I think it's useless if there are already weather apps available on the market. Instead of having to wait for the sensors to activate and take in information, it's just simply easier to use a weather app which will use internet to update, which is most likely faster.