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Every year, manufacturers produce over one billion cell phones.  With an estimated average length of four inches per phone, one year of production would encircle Earth 2.5 times.  About 15% of cell phones are classified as smartphones, capable of running third-party applications.  Eduneer LLC was started in March 2005 and is developing advanced field guide applications that run on smartphones, including many older smartphones.

The Peck bird information manager was a first-generation field guide application from Eduneer LLC, and it demonstrated flexible organization.  Prior electronic field guide applications mimicked the organization of paperback field guides, collecting species information into species summaries.  In contrast, the Peck bird information manager application scattered species information across several lists (e.g., classification, photo, audio, geography) and used a highlight to maintain the context.  For example, highlighting the Northern Cardinal in the classification list and switching to the photo list results in an automatic highlight of the Northern Cardinal in the photo list.  It turns out that this scattered organization is good for development because the task of adding more field guide information is simply the task of adding more items to lists.  Even more important, the scattered organization is quickly accepted by users: of the 1500 posts to the Peck bird information manager support group, not one was about the lack of species summaries.

The universal field guide, introduced in January 2009, is a second-generation field guide application from Eduneer LLC.  Containing all the information from the Peck bird information manager, the universal field guide demonstrates how the impressive storage capacity of today's inexpensive flash memory cards can be employed to tightly integrate information from a variety of field guide subjects (e.g., birds of North America and flowers of North America).  It is one of the first electronic field guides to challenge paperback field guides in price as well as content.  If you would like to read more about the universal field guide, download the manual.  If you are interested in talking about the universal field guide, join the users group at http://groups.google.com/group/ufgu.