[Story] Professor Palm!
Friday July 28th 2011
Tony woke up to his Haptic Palm’s morning call. Before he changed his phone, he could turn off his morning call by just pressing the volume button; such easy method of turning the morning call off enable Tony to turn it off unconsciously, ending him up late in the morning quite often. Haptic Palm was different. In order to turn the morning call off, Tony had to solve a maze. That way, he could wake up completely without going back to bed.
Palm Morning!
Palm Morning! Is a special morning call included in Haptic Palm. Unlike the morning call that exists right now, it requires the owner to solve a mini-game in order to stop the morning call from ringing. That means that the owner cannot simply turn it off and go back to sleep, for the game and the continuous noise will wake him/her up. Games such as maze, spotting the difference would be ideal.
When he woke up completely, he realized that he set the time for the morning call completely wrong, and that he was late for his Hagwon (cram school). He ran to the subway station, and pulled his Haptic Palm out. He searched the shortest route from Sunae station to Apgujeong station and the price of the ticket.
Subway Map.
It is a self explanatory function, but also very vital.
Thanks to the precision of the Haptic Subway Map, Tony arrives to his Hagwon on time. To ignore any unnecessary phone calls during the lecture, Tony turns his phone to silence mode.
Palm Silence
This function will be very useful in cases where people have to silence their phones or turn it off – however, turning the phone off is disadvantageous in many ways such as missed calls. The Palm Silence alters the ‘mode’ of the phone, so that phone calls and text messages are temporarily blocked from reception. In cases of phone calls, just like those ‘the owner can’t pick up the phone…’ message, the callers will receive a message saying that the user is temporarily unable to pick up the phone. Thus, the phone owners can be isolated from the interruptions while informing the callers at the same time.
Thanking Haptic Palm for its handy function again, Tony successfully ends his lecture session and heads back home. In order to prevent cramming the next day, Tony decides to do a little bit of homework before he sleeps. While doing his homework, Tony confronts an unfamiliar vocabulary. Once again, Tony pulls out his Haptic Palm, and turns on its multi-functional dictionary.
Palm Dictionary
Palm dictionary can be customized so that it contains only the most essential function that is needed by its owner. English dictionary is a default function of the phone, while more languages can be updated via connecting to the computer. Also, assistance add-ons such as the ‘100 essential vocabulary for TOEFL’ can be downloaded and updated. This way, dictionaries in cell phones evolve from being just a mere way to look up words to an intensive way to study languages.
Though Tony doesn’t really like studying because of its tediousness, he thinks it is for his future and endures successfully. Haptic Palm is only a minor help, but if it supports Tony with the most efficiency, the effect will definitely show.
