Androids Everywhere!

Would you like to have a phone with which you can control your TV, dishwasher, stereo, car and maybe even your mother-in-law? And yeah you would be able to make calls with it as well.

Controlling your mother-in-law wouldn't yet be possible in the near future, but there are plenty of innovations lined up to make Android a more-than-ordinary-OS for your mobile phone.

Recently, in an ICT event called COMPUTEX (largest computer exhibition in Asia), many developers and OEM producers showed off their innovations using Android. In this article you can see (in order of appearance):

• Electronic dictionary
• Phone with fixed line (the tablet can be used seperately)
• Smart radio (allows you to listen to online music)
• Commercial flight onboard media solution

Speaking of airlines, American Airlines (the world's fourth largest airline) just announced it will deploy Android devices for its first-class passengers. Who would have thought that would ever happen when the Google phone was first released?

Earlier this year, Android surpassed Apple iPhone's iOS as the preferred OS for smartphones. Andy Rubin (Android's boss) has indicated that Android's ambitions go well beyond just mobile phoning. Evidence of this is, as you can see, showing up everywhere.

So what other innovations can we expect? I was thinking of stuff like:

• Car stereos (eliminates need for seperate carkit and navigation kit)
• Combine it with the car that rides itself (your phone as a car key? Yes!)
• Central heating control (heat up your house just before you leave the office, monitor energy use)
• Bath control (our friends in Japan would love this)
• Anything else?

I didn't actually come up with the bath control thing myself. I remember as a kid reading Japanese comics about what innovations may come in the future, and this was one of them. I remember thinking that that would never be possible.

Thanks to the recent developments, the future now is closer than I had thought. These are exciting times.