Nokia and LG are planning to add the feature of augmented reality to the smartphones to expand the functionality of the future mobile devices.
Jo Harlow, the vice president of Nokia smartphones shared the future plans of the company in one of his interviews. First of all, it includes the support of multitouch and powerful graphics of smartphones based on Symbian ^ 3, besides the augmented reality, which should improve the service capabilities offered by the company.
Joe Harlow also noted the types of smartphones, on which Nokia plans to concentrate efforts in the nearest future: these are the touchscreen smartphones without keyboards and touchscreen smartphones with QWERTY keyboard (such as Nokia X10). There is still no information about when smartphones with augmented reality will actually hit the market.
Unlike Nokia, the plans of LG are more specific: in the nearest future the company plans to launch its first smartphone with support of augmented reality. The smartphone is called LG LU2300 and works on the basis of Android platform. The device has not yet been announced officially, but its release in the South Korean market is planned in the second quarter of 2010.
Let us remind that the augmented reality is a technology that allows to display the digital information on the objects of the real world in real time with the help of mobile phone camera.
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