Currently there are many accessories for our smartphone that communicate very well with Android and that give more functionality to our phone, from the typical cases with electronic ink screen, through the famous smartwatches to the popular chromecast that goes so far as to transform the smartphone itself into one more accessory.
A year or so ago Motorola introduced a smartphone accessory, Motorola Skip that far from being a comprehensive washing of our smartphone was a curious accessory that allowed us to locate our smartphone, objects such as keys or simply unlock our smartphone without touching it.
Motorola Skip had at that time an NFC chip that allowed to do this and that was an ideal accessory for those confused with the keys or with the smartphone itself. Today, a year later, the guys at Motorola still think that it will be a best-seller and have slightly modified it to be able to put it into production and sale soon, as the FCC has announced through its reports and certifications. Now, Motorola Skip carries a bluetooth chip although it keeps the same functionalities.
Will Google and Motorola have plans for Motorola Skip?
With Motorola Skip you can locate the smartphone by making it ring when we have lost it, we can also locate the Motorola Skip through our smartphone, something ideal if Motorola Skip is linked to another object such as a wallet or a keychain. And we can even unlock or lock our smartphone if it is close to it. And it may be that this is the kit in question. If you remember correctly, in the last Google I / O a quality of smartwatches and the new Android L was presented that until now we did not know: the possibility of unlocking having some smart object nearby.
It seems that this technology has been copied from Motorola and if it is finally sold, Motorola Skip may have an important role within Android, but both Google and Motorola would not bother to sell them since the Moto 360 could do the same function. is preparing Google and Motorola, but the fact that? While we find out, it seems to me that we will have to settle for Motorola Skip and its thousand and one uses ( it is ironic).
There is no application for IOS? There is a new project from a European Startup that proposes an object like Motorola called Gablys but with many more features, like an accelerometer! Apart from that they have much more consideration for the design of applications for Android and IOS. You can see it in http://www.gablys.com