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Chapter 3 The Nokia Point & Find Story
Smart directory navigation and text-entry search (continued)
Smart directory navigation and text-entry search are also effective
as the primary ways to navigate and explore a world, without using
Nokia Point & Find’s object recognition capabilities at all.
GPS and Cell ID for location-based services (LBS)
Nokia Point & Find uses GPS and Cell ID technologies to provide
sophisticated location based services. By identifying a user’s specic
location with GPS, or a more general location based on Cell ID, Nokia
Point & Find returns location-specic results and services.
For example, a person in London pointing at a movie poster will re-
ceive different results than a person in San Francisco pointing at the
same poster. In a dense city environment, Nokia Point & Find uses the
GPS location to more efciently evaluate nearby objects and provide
identication and location-relevant results quickly, in real time.
A range of result actions
Nokia Point & Find initially identies an object and then provides its
name (its “label,” part of its tag – see Terms, page 3.6), as well as
a list of contextually relevant results that offer a variety of actions.
Nokia Point & Find result actions will:
• Open web pages
• Initiate/place phone calls
• Stream video and audio
• Send SMS test messages
• Send email messages
Future technologies and capabilities
The technology roadmap for Nokia Point & Find includes integrat-
ing future technologies to enhance and evolve Nokia Point & Find
capabilities and to remain on the leading edge of providing context
enriched mobile services.
Nokia also plans to release a touch-screen interface version of the
Nokia Point & Find client app for its new agship N97 device (second
half of 2009 release).
Nokia Point & Find Versions
While initially the Nokia Point &
Find client application is being
rolled out for higher end smart
phones(liketheNokiaN958GB
and N97), Nokia will be releas-
ing versions of the Nokia Point
& Find client application for
S60 and S40 devices, some of
which don’t have the capacity to
handle the demanding task of
real-time visual object recogni-
tion. On these devices, people
will explore a selected Nokia
Point & Find world by using
smart directory navigation and
text-entry search, with no object
recognition capabilities.