Disconnected Voice

Thrutu gave one of my favorite presentations at the eComm conference. The idea is simple. Why can't we interact with each other or our connected multi - feature phones while having a voice conversation. Actually not many people even think they should. Plain voice calls have been with us for 150 years. And we do not dare to expect anything more. So when we talk, we just talk. That is it. Nobody expects being able to take a photo and send it over to the other party while talking. Or sending a GPS with map snippet. We are used to saying "when we finish I will send you my address". Or "when we finish I will send you the photo".

Why wait until the call is done? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to share a phone's camera while on a call? Or click an icon that will send the GPS coordinates to the other party where it will be rendered by a mapping application? Such simple ideas... yet not available on a broader base. Such multimedia enhancements should be built in the 3G standard. Long time ago. The problem is they are not even in the 4G. An you know what? One day Steve Jobs will come on stage and show how his new magical and revolutionary iPhone can interact with another iPhone during a call. And the crowd will cheer.

There is no need to wait for Apple. Thrutu is already available on Android. It is a pity just a handful of people use it today. It is really a great concept and very nicely implemented. Go grab the app and share the idea.