YORK - Smartphone (smartphone) has become increasingly popular makes of mobile applications plentiful.

Here are five trends mobile application considered to be booming in 2011.

Applications for cars
Car manufacturers have captured the trend of boom generation broadband Web 2.0, from GPS to interactive entertainment system in your car. The explosion of smart phones and deploy 4G technologies as applications push the car further.
Mobile Vehicle Solutions Print's Korean carrier SK Telecom introduced earlier this year described the applications on smart phones. Such as smartphone users to remote control cars, car keys, opening petrol cap, start the engine, test fuel, and even alert the owner when the vehicle was stolen.

VoIP and mobile video
The telecom companies are not very interested in VoIP, but that will change and the network will notice "is" more than "fear" when allowing VoIP calls running on their networks. Recently, Verizon Wireless and KDDI have announced cooperation with Skype, other companies such as SK Telecom is also building mobile data packages around the use of VoIP.
Skype seems foreign, own nearly 12 existing iPhone VoIP applications, including applications like Vonage and iCall. Some VoIP applications such as Fring, Nimbuzz and Vopium - also promote the service to a new value, the user connects MSN Messenger, GoogleTalk, Twitter, Yahoo, AIM and ICQ with each other.
The next step for mobile VoIP is a video call. Skype has video features for their mobile customers, but only on the Nokia N900, but the company plans to expand video features not only on other mobile devices, but also on both PC and TV .

Mobile social network
Mobile social networks are even more popular email, according to TNS. Medium, mobile users take 3.1 hours per week on social networking sites, compared with only 2.2 hours on email. Social network special "play" in developing markets, development director of TNS said Matthew Froggatt.
Another factor promoting the growth of mobile social networks in developing markets is increasingly reduced price smartphone, combined with the 3G applications, India is a typical example. With 3G networks, the price is cheap and innovative service packages, the mobile social network users in India will reach 72 million by 2014.

Real-time applications
Augmented reality (AR - information service of a real space) is an application that displays information to interested users via smartphone's screen and camera, combined with the Internet, GPS and compass (compass). Currently, over 200 applications on iTunes and on the AR 50 AR applications on the Android Market. The research firm predicts AR "will affect all industries, especially retail, leisure, tourism and advertising." Expected, revenue from AR applications will reach $ 2.2 billion in 2015.

Application "for over 18 years"
Applications for adult entertainment is always going over big, "though we or are" inspired. " But everything will change, and these applications will grow strongly, thanks to a subscription model directly "pay-per-download" (pay-per-views).
Currently, although banned and entertainment content are also accessible on the website for free, but revenue relating to adult entertainment services is expected to increase from $ 1.7 billion in 2009 to $ 2.8 billion in 2015, thanks to video chat services and subscriber service type.