Those who’ve attended Innovation Club sessions last year will find a number of these entries very familiar indeed.

A number of these apps are genuinely useful, but beg to be integrated into a more seamless experience (cab hailer into a map app perhaps, or training your phone to know it’s place woven into your profile settings)

From a technical standpoint, of interest is that a lot of these apps have been made for the Android platform, further underlining that an open platform helps to spawn innovative solutions..

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-02/lp_10coolapps

A survey commissioned by Mformation shows 95% of consumers surveyed would be more likely to try new mobile phone services if the set-up were easier.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/article.aspx?id=165566

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