A phone that will look out for the person holding it.

Family and friends keep talking, phone to phone, on a ski slope, a trail or a festival field with no network. And the phone itself will look out for its person: new everyday value for your users.

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Three everyday moments

In preparation.

The situation

A family spread out on a ski slope, and no network.

Nobody can call anybody. Elsewhere, someone walks towards the road with music on and eyes on the screen. In both moments the phone could help, and says nothing.

Awareness and understanding

Their phones keep talking, because they never needed the network.

Today: push-to-talk with family and friends, phone to phone, where there is no network.

Today: the phone knows what its person is doing.

In development: with music on, eyes on the screen, one step from the road, it will say “Look up”.

Prediction

It will see him about to step into the road, before his foot leaves the kerb.

In development: the phone will see that step coming.

Warning

It will tell him to look up.

In development: his phone will say “Look up”.

The phone will never tell him it is safe to cross: it will warn, and he will decide.

Who is told: the distracted person. Nobody else.

What you get

A feature your users feel the day the network is gone, and a phone that will look out for them.

Today: push-to-talk with family and friends where there is no network, on a ski slope, a trail or a festival field.

In development: the phone will look out for its person at a crossing.

Vision: it will do the same at the top of an escalator, and notice dangers that start inside the phone itself, telling its owner how sure it is.

Where it stands

  • Today

    Works now, and we can show it to you.

  • In development

    Being built, or shown so far in the lab or in field trials. Not a product yet.

  • Vision

    Where we are going. Not built yet.

  • Push-to-talk with family and friends Family and friends talk phone to phone where there is no network. Status: Today
  • Crossing with music on It will notice its person heading into the road and say “Look up”. Status: In development
  • The top of the steps It will say “Mind the step” before its person misses one. Status: Vision
  • A fall It will notice a fall and call for help. Status: Vision
  • A phone that knows itself It will notice its own abnormal behaviour and say how sure it is. Status: Vision
  • Inside the phone itself It will be part of the phone itself, for every user, with no app to install. Status: Vision

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How we label what we claim Every demonstration

Try it

Pick a moment: a family on a ski slope with no network, a crossing with headphones on, or the top of an escalator. Push-to-talk with family and friends works today; the crossing is in development, the escalator is vision.

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