Mobile pizza

Bluecasting at 3GSM / MWC

I couldn't help stopping at Futurlink's stand at the exibition.  They have a range of nicely designed bluetooth pods.

I particularly liked this one because it shows a list of the handsets in its range. If yours is one of them, then you can use the touchscreen to download content.

The whole system didn't unfortunately work very smoothly. It found me and connected to my Nokia, but never managed to download the video I was after. 

Treasure Hunt at Mobile World Congress

A first little post from the MWC08 week in Barcelona. This was a liflet being ditributed around the congress. An 'old style' treasure hunt using MyClick's image recognition technology.

I say 'old style' just because I was at the same time busy showing off the treasure hunt game we have setup on Locomatrix - the GPS gaming platform.

Feb 087 MoMo - Mobile OS's

Thought provoking session last night at MoMo London.

David Wood of Symbian set it off with clear keypoints:

• Mobile OS's solve hard problems and won't therefore become commoditised, with application environments creating the real value
• Mobile needs its own OS
• Users may not choose a phone because of its OS, but a good OS will provide more innovative products

The following speakers challenged elements of the above:

• M:Metrics showed that consumer satisfaction may be driven more by UI implementations then the underlying OS (iPhone scores well, as did UIQ and - apparently -the N95)
• Trolltech clearly indicated that Linux can be expected to be an important player in the market (so add Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile and the picture is clear: proprietary or not, we will still have several OS's on the market)
• David from Vodafone R&D presented their initial work in the Web Runtime area (i.e. when it comes to consumer services, forget about the OS and work towards an application environment with the reach of mobile web and some of the functionality of Mobile Java.)