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iPhone is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. with a flush multi-touch screen and a minimal hardware interface. iPhone becoming more popular and usable , by millions these days , and its counted as the developer.
Why Using iPhone in medicine ?
iPhone is the most candidate smartphone for developers right now to build applications over it , though it has many features such as :
But the most important features are :
Though , iPhone is not that ready yet for major Medical application start up , cause its geographical distribution and may be marketing issue .
Developer Flavor :
To develop an iPhone’s application or widget , there are two variationsdevelopers can use to build their iPhone app : iPhone SDK ( iPhone SDK : is provided by apple for iPhone developers ) and web-based development , So web developers who are in large numbers now can precipitate in iPhone application development .
Web developers can build their own iPhone application that look and feel like native Apple iPhone applications , but there is a developer issue came up : SDK provides access to some base-level resources on the iPhone such as audio
recording and playback. while web based can not .
About Medical applications for iPhone :
Medical handheld applications were hold to specific type of developers , with special skills on certain languages , though iPhone comes in web2.0 era so it provide the capability for web developers to contribute in building applications for iPhone , or port their application to iPhone .
Some of medical applications for iPhone which ported or made specially for iPhone are EMR , Medical Atlas , Medical Image tool , and some are ported from exiting medical projects , and medical online services .
iPhone application , will increase in time as the iPhone market become more wider and get more users as well as get more attention of web developers with more developer resources such as development frameworks , and libraries .
Web Based Medical projects and iPhone :
The idea of iPhone as a Multimedia and Internet enabled smartphone with free developer resources and capability of portability . will enable many of online medical projects to enable their web based medical applications for iPhone , in matter of time , though iPhone development and use still in early stage for that to suspect .
Also the competition between smartphones is just getting started , though the iPhone still the easiest one so far to build application for it , OpenMoko ( Open source smartphone – linux OS based ) and google android , are the incoming competitor for iPhones .
Web developers now can create mobile widget and applications for Nokia S60 mobiles , which is extending the same capability for iPhone for web developers , using web development concept and Ajax . which make Nokia S60 mobiles are candidate to compete with iPhone .
List of Medical application for iPhone :
Medical iPhone applications , you can find at appstore for iPhone at apple . Though there are many applications portal for iPhone and iPod Touch , but appstore is the primary one for almost all iPhone applications .
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