Comments on: What future for the mobile phone in a multi-platform world? http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2009/11/what-future-for-the-mobile-phone-in-a-multi-platform-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-future-for-the-mobile-phone-in-a-multi-platform-world Distilling market noise into market sense. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:00:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: maheshdixit http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2009/11/what-future-for-the-mobile-phone-in-a-multi-platform-world/comment-page-1/#comment-67604 maheshdixit Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:43:57 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/?p=1109#comment-67604 Well, the mobile industry is changing at a very fast pace and soon users can use it in multi-platform environment. In fact, there might be some great idea to showcase at the Forum Nokia Developer Conference ’09 for tomorrow's technology. http://www.nokiadevcon.in/index.php Well, the mobile industry is changing at a very fast pace and soon users can use it in multi-platform environment. In fact, there might be some great idea to showcase at the Forum Nokia Developer Conference ’09 for tomorrow’s technology. http://www.nokiadevcon.in/index.php

]]> By: Jonathan Engelsma http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2009/11/what-future-for-the-mobile-phone-in-a-multi-platform-world/comment-page-1/#comment-67567 Jonathan Engelsma Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:36:49 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/?p=1109#comment-67567 Nice writeup. As the mobile phone continues to evolve into a very capable general purpose computing platform it is gobbling up a lot of other devices. I use my iPhone as my alarm clock, camera, flashlight, metronome, personal nav, etc., not to mention my phone. At the same time, studies have shown that on average, the mobile phone is not in proximity to its user as much as everybody tends to assume. Gregory Abowd's paper on this sometime back was one study in particular that sticks out in my mind: http://www.shwetak.com/papers/prox_ubicomp06.pdf On the question of who will be the gatekeeper for the aggregated "phonebook 2.0", Motorola's BLUR is one example of a manufacturer taking on that role. Nice writeup. As the mobile phone continues to evolve into a very capable general purpose computing platform it is gobbling up a lot of other devices. I use my iPhone as my alarm clock, camera, flashlight, metronome, personal nav, etc., not to mention my phone.

At the same time, studies have shown that on average, the mobile phone is not in proximity to its user as much as everybody tends to assume. Gregory Abowd’s paper on this sometime back was one study in particular that sticks out in my mind:

http://www.shwetak.com/papers/prox_ubicomp06.pdf

On the question of who will be the gatekeeper for the aggregated “phonebook 2.0″, Motorola’s BLUR is one example of a manufacturer taking on that role.

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