Inventing My Own iPad Application for Maxis

Posted by Salt Pepper |

Both Salt n Pepper are loyal Maxis subscribers. We happened to find out that currently Maxis is organizing a contest on "Inventing My Own iPad Application for Maxis" and we would like to join in to contribute some ideas.

The year 2010 is about iPad. It has been rated as being one of the hottest gadgets in the tech world currently. Whether you are young or old, you will find that this gadget can fit into your life in some ways either reading, watching movie, surfing, playing games, etc.

Maxis has in fact, already offered us with a number of services from their online Maxis Store. Wouldn't it be great if some of the existing apps in the Maxis Store plus some new apps can be combined into one (1) single app. If we are given a chance to invent, we will invent an app with a few numbers of apps in it, for example a "4-in-1" app.

As iPad is a lifestyle gadget, we have come out with an idea of a combined single app which will consist some of the lifestyles which we think that are essential and a norm to our day-to-day activities.

1. Home Automation

Imagine how cool if we can control the lighting of our house, control the curtains' movement, control the electrical appliances and surveillance of home while we are away from home, just to name a few. All these could be possible with just a touch from our finger tip.

2. E-TV Series

Will it be good if we can watch our favourites Hong Kong and / or US TV series on the go? Just subscribe through here and one can watch his / her favourite TV series anytime and anywhere.

3. E-Radio

Apart from listening to musics / songs downloaded into the built-in iPod app, it will be nice too if we are able to listen to our favourites local music radio stations such as myFM and hitz.fm directly from the iPad.

4. E-Readings

With the size and display of the iPad, using it for reading an e-publication will be cool. We can treat the iPad as a physical book, newspaper or magazine and the action of flipping a book, newspaper or magazine can be simulated on it.

Hmm, what should be the name of this app? May be we will name it as One Lifestyle......

To access the above mentioned different lifestyles, there are 4 different sub-selections upon initialization of the 'One Lifestyle' app. One good thing about this single combined app is that we think it can eliminate the hassle for users to search highs and lows for different single individual apps that can satisfy their personal day-to-day lifestyles whereas all these can be found readily available in just one single app.

The different sub-selections can also be run simultaneously utilising the iPad multitasking features. For example, you can listen to your favourite radio station while read your favourite novel and meanwhile make use of the home automation to control the air-con, lighting of the room and sound from the TV.

Without a data plan, the above features will not work smoothly. Do drop by a nearest Maxis outlet to check out the current iPad data plans on offer and decide for yourself which one suits you best. All the data plans come with a micro-sim card. There are plans for both prepaid and postpaid users.