The Apple iPhone in Japan
With the launch of the Apple iPhone 3GS in Japan, the app store is being flooded with Japanese ultra-high tech apps.
Sekai Camera has taken Japan by storm with millions of the country’s 3Gs users inundating the app with all sorts of weird and wacky info about Tokyo’s streets. The app acts as a sort of 3d live blogging software, with users being able to geotag anything they have found in and around Tokyo with the iPhone’s camera. These pictures are then mapped out into a live feed which comes in through the iPhone’s camera treating you to a sort of 3d live-view map of what is cool around you. The first time you see it, it is truly awesome, with everything just popping up as small floating stills on the phone’s screen. You can see how much food costs, which direction the nearest tube station is, as well as all the other little gems which people have found and tagged.
Japan is light years ahead of the curve when it comes to mobile. They’re going to create some apps for the iPhone we can’t even begin to fathom.
