Finalized ideas


In recent days ive been thinking about my idea and that its lacking a good selling point because at the moment it doesnt really do much other than find petrol stations. my aplication is aimed at the 3rd generation of mobile phones such as k800i, G600 and w850i which have full capability of gps and the internet. My mobile application is also design for the use of Java so it will be comptaible with these phones.The list below shows what i have decided to add to my application and how it would work.

• The main part of my application is to find the nearest petrol station to you in the area you are in. This will work by using GPS To connect your mobile to the internet server which will provide the information.

• I will include the functionality of having my application to tell you how much fuel a paticular station has left which an icon that will show up. Green = Alot Yellow = Running out and Red= Out of pretrol.

• From my original design of having to type in details i will scrap that idea and have my application use GPS to locate your position saving alot of time this will make it alot more user friendly and a better selling point the only thing you would bee to type in is the range in mile a selection from 5,10, 15 or 20 miles radius.

• I want to combine Google map with my application. This will work with Gps so once the application has located your position. A map much like google map will appear and The petrol stations will appear on the map with an arrow showing thier location.
  

• The naviagtion of the map is simple, using the directional pad on the front of the mobile phone will navigate around the selected area the petrol stations will have a number by them and if you press a number on the Number pad it will display the information nect to the station

• Pressing a number on the number pad will bring up information which will include, the exact address, how many miles away from your position it is and also display an icon for the amount of petrol they each have and i also want to display what times the particular petrol station opens and shuts but that will be quite difficult because each petrolstation will have to upload information.
  

• by touching the directional pad on the front of the mobile phone will make the information of the Previous petrol station selected dissapear showing the view of the map. and will enable the user to continue scrolling to find other petrol stations.
  

What do the buttons do?

• The # key will set the best route to the location of the petrol station, which is also combining The idea from " The route finder" on Sat nav but in a much simpler form.
  

• The top left Soft key is the enter button which will enable you to start the application and select any information

• The top right soft key is the back button to take you to the previous page and if held down will take you to the options menu.

• The directional pad is used to navigate the map and if pressed will continue to navigate the map if a number on the d pad is pressed

• Each petrol station will have a number next to it and if you press the corrisponding number to the petrol station it will display information about that petrolstation. press the D pad to continue on searching.

• only if needed press the * key and it will pop up with a box that will enable you to type double digets if there is more than 10 stations in the area.

Options menu

In the options menu there will be a few selection stating with

• Reset, this button will reset all information in the application to default settings
• Sound, this button will enable sound to be played for button noises etc,
• Mile radius, click this button and you get a selection of the amoun of mile to choose from, 5,10,15 or 20 miles. Default is 5 miles
  
• Exit, this button enables you to exit the application

For now this is the outline of my application of what i want it to do and what each button does. the only other thing that my application requires is a connection the the internet and a GPS enables mobile phone.