ROBUST MOBILE APPLICATIONS

There's more to mobile apps than ringtones, text messages and casual games, according to telecomasia.net via Tome Hume.

Some robust mobile phone applications:

1. The Lie/Love detector
The "Truthful Calls" service uses a voice analysis system by Israeli company Nemesysco that functions as an emotion detector, assessing the level of honesty of the person you're calling.
2. Call yourself in the future
From Web services company CDyne, a Web-based app that allows you to call yourself in the future. Really!
3. Ghost detector
TV show tie-ins are becoming a frequent excuse for mobile apps. Mobile content development company Wiretown (started, appropriately, by two men with TV broadcasting backgrounds) have developed a paranormal detector for cellphones.
4. Car alarm
The "Silent-I" system not only sends an SMS to the car's own
5. Spy phones
An ordinary-looking mobile phone that actually doubles as an eavesdropping device
6. Halal verification service
An SMS-based service in Malaysia that allows Muslims to conform the halal status (which is to say "permissible" under Islamic law) of products.
7. Liquid wallpaper
Technically more of a user-interface feature than an app, but still innovative: the N702iS handset (developed by NEC, NTT DoCoMo and Japanese design company Nendo) comes with sensor-driven wallpaper that makes the screen look like a glass of liquid.
8. Send SMS messages and emoticons to your clothes
Uranium-Jeans has a line of "interactive clothing" that comes with embedded flexible micro screens that display images and scrolling text messages that can either be downloaded from Uranium's Web site or sent by SMS.
9. Camera dictionary
Camera Dictionary is a software app that allows users to scan English words using their camera phones and translate them to Japanese.
10. Mobile breathalyzer
Not sure if you or your driver has had one too many martinis? Use your mobile phone to check his or her alcohol level via a breath analyzer connected to the handset.