I followed a Webinar on Wireless Trends and Directions today and tweeted by observations during the event. You can read the stream here:
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23modashbd
Here are my top observations.
1. Rise of QMD (Quick Mobile Device — a text-centric device; less than a smartphone, but will full keyboard). These devices are somewhat purpose built for Social Networking or other dedicated purposes. I guess the Sidekick could be considered an early example and the Kindle a well developed special purpose device (and business model!). These have the potential to really mess up operators revenue plans. We already see data cannibalizing voice and social interaction could cannibalize general data services. Operators could restructure their networks to make this effective for them.
2. Virtual Personal Assistants and Voice interaction. Very interesting trend and services could become interesting. Unsure how increasing the degree to which we wander around talking to ourselves will be accepted socially. But I suppose it’s better than walking into traffic looking at your CrackBerry in a PDA–Public Display of Addiction.
3. Palm’s lasting legacy may be HTML5 and the recognition that browsing has moved to the small screen. Web developers would do well to start considering mobile as the primary platform and not some bolt-on. I know this will upset the flash crowd–but they’re prolly not my friend anyway after this. Social Networks in particular need to heed this or loose their following fast.
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