Q: ทำไมถึงบอกว่า iPhone 101% ?
A: เพราะว่า iPhone เป็นโทรศัพท์ที่เด่นมากๆ ในเรื่องระบบ Online, Social Networking, และ Push Notifications ตัวนึง

Q: Blackberry ก็เด่น ทำไมไม่นับรวมไปในหัวเรื่อง?
A: เพราะ Blackberry (BB) นั้น ผู้ให้บริการมือถือเค้ามี BB Service ให้อยู่แล้ว ไฮโซกว่าโปรที่ผมจะแนะนำเยอะครับ แต่ว่าราคาก็ไฮตาม

Q: โปร AIS ที่แนะนำนั้นเป็นแบบคิดตามปริมาณข้อมูลที่ใช้งานนี่นา ใช้แบบนับตามเวลาไม่ดีกว่าเหรอ?
A: เนื่องจากระบบ Push Notifications ที่เพิ่มเข้ามาใน iPhone OS 3.0 ขึ้นไปนั้น ตัวเครื่องจะมีการต่อเนตตลอดเวลาเพื่อรอรับข้อมูลใหม่ๆ ที่จะเข้ามาในเครื่อง ซึ่งถ้าใช้แพ็คเกจที่นับตามเวลาการใช้งานเช่น 100 บาทเล่นได้ 20 ชม. ผมบอกได้เลยว่าไม่เกิน 2 วันครับ หมดแน่นอน แถมเกินโปรไปอีกบาน กระเป๋าแห้งเอาง่ายๆ

Q: แล้ว AIS ถ้าใช้แบบคิดตามข้อมูลจะหมดช้าแค่ไหน?
A: ขึ้นอยู่กับลักษณะการใช้งานของแต่ละท่านครับ ถ้าไม่ได้ทำการเปิดเวปที่มีรูปภาพเยอะๆ หรืออัพโหลดรูปโชว์เพื่อนบ่อยๆ ใช้แบบ 100 บาทเล่นได้ 500MB เดือนเดียวก็ไม่หมดครับ อย่างตัวผมใช้อยู่เดือนละแค่ 200MB กว่าๆ เท่านั้น

Q: 1-2-Call ใช้แพ็คเกจนี้ได้มั๊ย
A: ใช้ได้ครับ ในเวป AIS มีเขียนอยู่ แต่ถ้าท่านไหนได้เปิดใช้งานจริงๆ ได้ ช่วยมายืนยันหน่อยนะครับ

ค่ายนี้เป็นค่ายเดียวในเวลานี้ที่มีแพ็คเกจให้บริการ Mobile Internet ที่คิดตามปริมาณข้อมูลที่ใช้งานครับ ด้านล่างเป็นแผ่นที่ผมได้รับแจกมา เอามา Scan ให้ดู

ส่วน ตัวผมใช้แบบ 100 บาทอยู่ครับ ไม่เคยเกินโปรเลย รูปด้านล่างเป็นรูปที่ใช้งานมา 13 วัน (ก่อนที่จะเล่น Twitter เลยใช้น้อย)

แล้ว AIS เค้าก็ชอบต่อโปรให้ลูกค้าอยู่แล้ว ฉะนั้นครบ 6 รอบบิลแล้วค่อยว่ากันใหม่ (ของผมได้ต่อโปรไปเรียบร้อยแล้ว เค้าส่ง SMS มาให้เองเลย)

ส่วนวิธีเปิดใช้โปรนี้อาจจะยุ่ง ยากนิด เพราะคนที่แนะนำผมมาอีกทีเค้าต้องโทรไป Call Center ตั้ง 2 รอบ คุยรอบละนานๆ กว่าเค้าจะยอมเปิด แต่ถ้าทำตามวิธีของผมด้านล่างนั้น รู้สึกว่าจะเปิดได้ทุกรายไป ถ้าใครเปิดไม่ได้ก็มาโพสบอกกันหน่อยนะครับ

แต่วิธีเปิดจะง่ายมาก เพียงแค่อ่านเทคนิคด้านล่างนี่ให้ขึ้นใจก่อน จากนั้นก็โทรไปที่ Call Center เค้า เพื่อขอเปิดครับ

ถาม: ใช้โทรศัพท์รุ่นไหนอยู่คะ?
ตอบ: HTC Diamond ครับ/ค่ะ (หรือจะอ้างรุ่นอื่นก็ได้ แต่รุ่นที่อ้างต้องรองรับ 3G ที่ความถี่ 900MHz นะครับ)

ถาม: อยู่ในพื้นที่ที่ให้บริการรึเปล่าคะ
ตอบ: ผม/ดิฉัน ทำงานอยู่แถว Central World ครับ/ค่ะ

ถาม: บลาๆๆๆๆ (ตรงนี้เค้าพูดอะไรมาก็รับฟังอย่างเดียวครับ ไม่ต้องรับรู้กับเค้า รับรู้เท่าที่ผมเขียนไว้นี่พอครับ)
ตอบ: ครับๆๆๆๆ/ค่ะๆๆๆๆ

ถาม: ถ้าอยู่นอกพื้นที่ให้บริการจะคิดค่าบริการเป็นนาทีนะคะ
ตอบ: ครับๆๆๆ/ค่ะๆๆๆ (ไม่ต้องสนใจครับ เรื่องนี้ไม่จริง ผมแนะนำโปรนี้ไปหลายคนแล้ว ก็คิดตามข้อมูลการใช้งานทุกพื้นที่ครับ)

สุดท้ายขอฝากลิงค์กระทู้ต่างๆ เกี่ยวกับแพ็คเกจนี้ที่ผมเคยโพสไว้ เพื่อจะได้ไปอ่านข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมนะครับ

• http://www.thaiiphone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15005
• http://www.smart-mobile.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=169178
• http://www.appreview.in.th/%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%81%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B7%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B1%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A7%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%9B/324-%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%9E%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%84%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%88-gprs/edge-%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%B7%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%83%E0%B8%8A%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99-iphone-%E0%B9%83%E0%B8%AB%E0%B9%89%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%89-101?limit=0&limitstart=0 (@mimee ครับ copy ลิงค์มาแปะแล้วยาวแท้ๆ วิธีโปรโมทเวปทางอ้อมรึเปล่านี่ ^_^’)

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(muss ich mal schnell hier festhalten weil viele im Netz danach suchen)

Ja wer hat denn da von meinem Guthaben genascht? oder:
UMTS / GPRS / EDGE Datenverbindung deaktivieren.. / Datenroaming verhindern

Leute ohne Flatrate oder die, die mal ins Ausland fahren kennen das wohl:
Das Handy wählt sich ohne zu fragen zB beim Email-Abrufen einfach ins Internet ein.
Ansich zuhause mit Flat kein Problem.
Was kann man dagegen tun? Klar, die Interneteinstellungen ((Wireless) Access Point Name) einfach so umändern, dass das Handy sich nicht mehr einwählen kann.  Einfach an den APN (Namen) in dein Einstellungen irgendwas anhängen und wieder löschen.
Aber immer per Hand?

Geht auch einfach:
APNdroid (über Market, kostenlos) hängt einfach am Namen des Zugangs per Knopfdruck einen Text an und entfernt diesen wieder.

Das Handy kann damit nicht mehr (oder wieder) ins Internet und gut ist. Keine Kosten mehr.
WLAN und normales telefonieren geht selbstverständlich weiterhin – VOIP geht natürlich nicht mehr.

—
Bei mir hat sich das Handy über nacht eingewählt weil da mein Wlan aus ist.. sowas..
Allerdings waren die Kosten gerade mal 0,6 Cent. So nen halbe Cent spende ich gerne an SIMYO

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Welcome to the 162th edition of the Carnival, hosted for the first time here at Technology, Mobility, Usability and other Musings.

This has been a busy week for mobilists thanks to Mobile World Congress that concluded recently. Surprisingly, not many posts covering MWC have come up, I guess we’ll see them next week after people have had some time to put their thoughts together.

This has been a varied week covering a range of topics. So, let us begin, shall we?

Market Watch

From Communities Dominate Brands, Tomi talks about 3G penetration statistics marking a trend that indicates 3G’s success in any region it’s launched in.

Thomas Menguy of Vision Mobile looks at three hardware related Nokia PR at MWC and shows how those announcements fits within the new Nokia strategy.

Barbara Ballard over at Little Springs Design looks at device developments at MWC indicating a strong focus on Touch. I completely agree with her insights about the Touch interface. Touch is sexy, she muses, provides some nice interaction possibilities. It also shuts down some interaction possibilities. And makes other stuff harder.

Challenges for new mobile technology

Steven from Little Springs Design talks about challenges for emerging mobile technology, biggest one being the delay between getting a new technology to market and getting it well-adopted. I nominate this as my Post of the Week.

Designing for Mobile

Bookmarking sites on mobile is a big issue. James Cooper of mjelly gives a couple of examples of sites using a new approach to encourage users to bookmark them.

Aaron Chua highlights three shortcomings of current mobile ebook applications and gives suggestions on how to overcome them.

Holly from mobienthusiast talks about Sonic Mobile as a good example of a well-designed mobile site.

m-learning

Mark Hooft at his Ubiquitous Thoughts gives a great roundup of Mobile Learning 2009 Conference.

Pics from MWC

Lastly, mtrends founder Rudy De Waele posts pics of events in Barcelona, check it out if you’d like to see the faces behind the many mobilists around.

On Rudy’s behalf, I would like invite all mobilists and participants who have pictures of the Mobile Peer Awards event to join the Flickr Group and upload their pictures too – http://www.flickr.com/groups/mobilepeerawards/ Anyone can join!

Next Week

That’s it for this week folks, hope you’ve enjoyed it. Head over to GoldenSwamp for next week’s roundup of the best in mobile blogging.

Here we are!
Yesterday I came back from Barcelona (what a wonderful city!), I was there for 3GSM World Congress invited from Adobe to show our latest Flash Lite contents made in collaboration with Mutado, an Italian creative and interactive company.
It was amazing for us and I’d like to thank you Adobe people to give us this opportunity, thank you guys!

Adobe stand was amazing I love it so much and also Adobe announced lots of new stuff from new Flash Lite player delivery to new challenge that allow developers to win $30.000!

Flash Lite challengers is a contest that will finish at the end of May and we’ll know winners in the middle of June.
Main prize is $30.000 for the best Flash Lite application, but there are also categories prizes from games to applications, it’s a great opportunity to show your mobile content and win!
More information about this challenge on Adobe site

Another great news is that now, we have a new way to distribute our Flash Lite contents, in fact if a device goes trough a Flash Lite content on the web browser or download a Flash Lite application, if this device doesn’t have installed Flash Lite 3.1, it will be downloaded from web and installed on the device.
More information about this new way to deliver your content on Labs site.  

Also Adobe and Nokia give us a new opportunity to invest in mobile projects with Open Screen Project fund ($10 million), in fact this fund is created to help companies and developers to join in mobile Flash world!
More information about it in open screen project site. 

Finally I put a review on mobile.actionscript.it about new Flash Lite devices like Palm Pre or Nokia N97, so feel free to comment it (and take a look about our new mobile website).

 If you want to see a quick tour about 3GSM feel free to take a look on my Flickr account.

The GSMA and a task force comprising Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile International and 3, today unveiled the results of a feasibility study examining mobile audience metrics that will enable media and advertising agencies, brands and publishers to deliver better mobile advertising campaigns. The study, part of the GSMA’s Mobile Media Metrics programme, has created a measurement process for mobile browsing that respects the privacy of mobile users and provides rich planning information for the media and advertising communities.
“Access to transparent measurement is essential in establishing mobile as a legitimate advertising medium. This programme will help take the guesswork out of mobile for brands, publishers and agencies,” said Rob Conway, CEO and Board Member of the GSMA. “For the first time, the advertising community has access to real, aggregated mobile audience data, which offers insight into the most popular sites, ranked by number of visitors, page impressions, time and duration of visits. This will enable better planning of marketing campaigns, and in turn, will accelerate sales of mobile advertising inventory.”
Top Sites
The results of the study, based on a sample of anonymised data from UK mobile operators, reveal that operator sites continue to command the largest audiences, with 68% of UK mobile users visiting operator portals. Google is the top off-portal destination and Facebook is the top mobile site by time spent browsing, with other social networking sites featuring strongly. In addition to the top sites, a total of 167,648 mobile Internet sites have been measured during the feasibility study.

Top Mobile Sites vs. Top Internet Sites, December 2008 UK Mobile Phone Users (sample of UK Operators) and UK Internet Users*

User Behaviour
The output of the GSMA’s Mobile Media Metrics programme will allow brands, publishers and agencies access to rich, aggregated user behaviour data, enabling comparison with other media. For example, mobile users accessing Facebook spend an average of 24 minutes per day on the site, similar to the 27.5 minutes spent by PC users. Mobile users on Facebook averaged 3.3 visits per day versus 2.3 visits per day by PC users.
Mobile is used consistently throughout the whole day, but the early morning (7-10am) is the key day part for mobile, accounting for 22% of total mobile minutes browsed, compared with only 11% of total minutes browsed by PC Internet users in the same day part. Mobile can therefore act as an extension to media such as the Internet and TV, while it reinforces other early morning media, such as radio and newspapers.
Demographics
The real value comes in the combination of aggregated site popularity and user behaviour data with independently collected demographic information, which enables more effective targeting of campaigns. Mobile is confirmed as a strong youth medium with 48 per cent of users between 18-34 years old, compared to 40 per cent for the fixed Internet and 29 per cent for the TV audience (source: BMRB’s TGI). Mobile is also more skewed towards men, who represent 63 per cent of total users compared with 53 per cent for the fixed Internet.
“The mobile phone has the potential to offer relevant, personalised advertising on a level that has largely been unattainable until now,” said Conway. “This potential can only be achieved if mobile is part of a sophisticated, integrated approach to advertising. The rich data delivered through this programme will enable advertisers to create truly comprehensive, cross-platform media plan and campaigns.”
In the feasibility study, the GSMA worked with comScore as its measurement partner and ABC Electronic its media audit partner, as well as key industry stakeholders including JICWEBS and its member associations. The next phase of the programme will see the commercial launch of an audited mobile measurement service, expected in the second half of 2009. The GSMA will establish three further working groups, one each for advertisers, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. These working groups will confirm the measurement and reporting needs of the media industry, gather support for the proposed measures as a ‘common currency’ for mobile audience measurement, and establish how best to integrate this valuable information into existing cross-media business processes and tools.
Supporting quotes:
“Establishing a common system for mobile advertising will make it as easy for advertisers to run campaigns on mobiles as it is across traditional media such as television and radio. This marks a significant step forward in driving the credibility of mobile advertising,” said Tanya Field, Director – Mobile Data Group, Telefónica S.A.
“Mobile Media Metrics is vital to the development of Mobile Advertising industry,” said Frank Boulben, Director Commercial Strategy at Vodafone Group. “The GSMA has supported a solution which can be deployed by mobile operators in virtually every country and is based on ongoing collaboration with the leading advertisers and advertising agencies.”

“Mobile advertising is an innovative channel with solid future potential in terms of reach, targeting and message relevance. One of the key building blocks for the successful take-up of mobile advertising is a standardised measurement system for mobile media audiences allowing advertisers to make informed decisions on the ROI of their campaigns. The GSMA initiative will play a vital role in bringing all the necessary elements together to ensure an effective mobile audience measurement process is put in place,” said Ingo Schneider, Vice President Multimedia, T-Mobile International.
“We’re now in an era of less hype and more reality when it comes to mobile advertising. This Mobile Media Metrics initiative is a big step forward in making mobile advertising simpler to plan, buy, execute and measure. It will provide a clearer picture of the usage of mobile as a medium for the advertising industry and as brands invest more in mobile, it will help us to pass on even greater benefits to customers, such as choice, quality and ad-funded services,” said Steve Heald, Sales Director, Partner Channels, Orange UK.
“Network operators have long sought the independent verification which will allow them to monetise mobile Internet usage on their networks. Media buyers have also been excited about mobile for years, but have never had access to the independent statistics to justify large ad spend; hopefully Mobile Media Metrics will change all this. 3 is very excited about the opportunity provided by this initiative and we look forward to helping media buyers generate a higher ROI through the use of mobile advertising,” said Neil Andrews, Head of Portal Advertising at 3 UK. “Robust audience data is vital to the success of any medium, and Mobile Media Metrics represents a huge step forward for the industry. Once media planners start using the research to justify mobile advertising on schedules, we can expect to see the medium grow with well targeted cross-network campaigns” said Guy Philippson, CEO of IAB UK. “ABCe is looking forward to working with the mobile industry to progress and ultimately deliver mobile measurement to the standards agreed by JICWEBS (The Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards in the UK and Ireland). Media planners, owners and buyers require trusted and transparent data to justify driving media budgets to mobile,” said Richard Foan, MD of ABC Electronic.

Hi All,

it’s long time that I don’t write down a post.
In last months I changed lots of things, new fellows, new tutorials, new customers and big projects to develop with AIR and Flex.
So lots of things to do!

This year I’ll be at 3GSM World Congress for the second time, so if you will be there, please feel free to tell me, maybe you can drop me an email or add a comment under this post!
I’ll arrive at 15th and I’ll come back 20th February, so 5 amazing days in Barcelona.
If you don’t come, don’t worry I’ll post about this great event when I’ll be there and… there is a special surprise for anybody that follow this blog, so stay tuned and take a look at this blog in next few days.

Konkurs organizowany przez światowego dostawcę map cyfrowych firmę Navteq ma bardzo krótką tradycję. Jest organizowany od roku 2003. Jednak ze względu na bardzo ważnego organizatora, dodatkowo zaangażowanie firmy Nokia oraz prestiżowych uczestników szybko stał się on globalnym wydarzeniem w branży GPS. Wyniki konkursu w tym roku będą ogłoszone na zbliżającym się kongresie 3GSM w Barcelonie. Jest to o tyle ważne, że według badań sprzed dwóch lat przeprowadzonych wśród uczestników tego kongresu jest to bezsprzecznie najważniejsza impreza telekomunikacyjna na świecie. W tym prestiżowym światowym konkursie NaviExpert zakwalifikował się do półfinału. W konkursie biorą udział usługi nie dostępne jeszcze na rynku, a będące czymś co stanie się standardem za kilka lat. Takim standardem ma szansę stać się MONAPI (Mobile Online Navigation API).  Właśnie dzięki tej usłudze NaviExpert został zakwalifikowany tak wysoko.

MONAPI jest usługą bardzo potrzebną w naszych czasach. Umożliwia bowiem wykorzystanie nawigacji online w szerszy i bardziej uniwersalny sposób oraz  integrację nawigacji z innymi systemami.

Kilka przykładowych zastosowań:

Ratownictwo: Powiadamianie służb ratowniczych przez SMS – aktywuje od razu nawigację do miejsca zdarzenia.

Biznes: Integracja z systemami CRM – wyznaczanie trasy dla przedstawicieli handlowych (dojazd do klientów czy kontrahentów).

Prywatnie: Informacja (zaproszenie) dla znajomych – uruchamia nawigację do miejsca spotkania. Pozwala na monitorowanie położenia członków rodziny a zwłaszcza dzieci.

Wkrótce postaram się przybliżyć więcej szczegółów tej ciekawej i nowatorskiej usługi.

สำหรับ เครือข่ายโทรศัพท์มือถือในบ้านเรา หลายคนในกทม. คงกำลังรอเครือข่ายความเร็วสูง 3G (หลังจากที่บ้านนอกได้ใช้ CDMA ของกสท. และชาวเชียงใหม่ได้ใช้ 3GSM ของ AIS ไปก่อน (ข่าวเก่า) ในขณะที่ กทม. โดนชะลอไว้) วันนี้ AIS เปิดให้ทดสอบบริการ 3G ในกทม. แล้วครับ

แหล่ง ข่าว AIS Call Center จากในกระทู้เว็บบอร์ด Pantip.com ได้ให้ข้อมูลว่าบริการนี้เริ่มเปิดให้ใช้ในวันที่ 1 ธ.ค. 2551 และใช้ได้เฉพาะพื้นที่บางส่วนในบริเวณห้างเซ็นทรัล เวิลด์ พลาซ่า เท่านั้น โดยผู้ที่ต้องการทดสอบ ไม่จำเป็นจะต้องเปลี่ยนซิมหรือโปรโมชั่น (แต่หากต้องการจะใช้ VDO Call จำเป็นจะต้องสมัครการใช้งานก่อน)

อัตรา ค่าบริการข้อมูลมีแต่แบบคิดเป็นขนาดข้อมูลที่ 0.10 บาทต่อ KB (โดยสามารถสมัครโปรโมชั่นเพิ่มเติมได้ เช่นขั้นต่ำ 100 บาท ใช้ได้ 500 MB ต่อเดือน) และระบบนี้รองรับเฉพาะ HSPA 900MHz เท่านั้น รายละเอียดเพิ่มเติมลองดูที่ที่มาครับ

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The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic / New Nokia Products, Specifications and Features, Top view of New Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, Side view of New Nokia 5800 Xpress Music.

Source : http://bollywood-jannat.blogspot.com/2008/10/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-new-nokia.html

New Always-on Mobile Broadband Devices are Coming
It’s a GSMA-led initiative to create a new category of always-connected mobile broadband devices, delivering an alternative to Wi-Fi. And 16 major IT and mobile companies have formed a group to achieve this. The idea is to give consumers the freedom to get online on the move, while enabling operators to address an estimated $50 billion opportunity.

In the first phase of this initiative, mobile operators, PC manufacturers, and chipset providers are uniting to pre-install mobile broadband into a range of notebook PCs that will be ready to switch on and surf straight out of the box in 91 countries across the world.

To support this initiative, the GSMA has created the mobile broadband service mark, a new global identifier which will help consumers easily identify the array of ‘ready to run’ mobile broadband devices. The service mark is backed by a global media spend of more than $1 billion in the next year — evidence that the industry is serious about this proposition.

“Mobile Broadband is like a home or office broadband connection with one crucial difference: freedom. Freedom from hot spots, freedom from complexity, and freedom from security concerns,” said Michael O’Hara, CMO of the GSMA. 

Integrating mobile broadband into notebook PCs is the first step in a wider strategy to deliver wireless Internet access and management to a whole range of previously unconnected devices — from cameras and MP3 players to refrigerators, cars, and set-top boxes. However, only devices that offer a truly un-tethered experience, such as those offered by the 16 companies announced in today’s program, will qualify to carry the new service mark.

Launch participants include 3 Group, Asus, Dell, ECS, Ericsson, Gemalto, Lenovo, Microsoft, Orange, Qualcomm, Telefonica Europe, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, T-Mobile, Toshiba, and Vodafone.

The GSM Association (GSMA) is the global trade group representing more than 750 GSM mobile operators across 218 countries and territories of the world. The Association’s members represent more than 3 billion GSM and 3GSM connections — over 86% of the world’s mobile phone connections, according to GSMA.

Mobilized TV spoke with outgoing MEF Americas Chair Ted Cohen. Here’s what he had to say about the organization: MEF Americas has been around for five years – it has 160 member companies globally – film studios, tv networks, content aggregators, content creators, music labels, carriers, all over the place. The evolution of MEF has been fantastic because it’s created an organization that brings together disparate people in the value chain. It’s not an organization just about carriers, or distributors or content creators. It’s an amalgam of all the people necessary to make for a vibrant mobile eco-system, so I can have entertainment at my fingertips wherever I go. There are some great organizations out there like CTIA, and 3GSM and NATPE, but they usually serve one constituency. Our goal is to bring the various constituents together in a collaborative environment where the goal is to make the mobile entertainment consumer wildly happy. If Amazon’s Jeff Bezo ran a mobile organization, hopefully it would be us. You can’t satisfy everyone because you have competing agendas, but it’s kind of invigorating to navigate the conflict and try to find commonality. I’ve been involved with MEF for 4 years, and just stepped down as chairman. For the good and growth of the organization, you have to continually infuse it with new thought leaders and fresh blood. Microsoft’s Jim Beddows is someone who’s been involved and we suggested he run for the board on multiple occasions, and the board elected him Chairman./ MEFCON 2008 was our inaugural event. We worked on it for two years. We didn’t license the brand out to an event company. Ned Sherman from Digital Media Wire helped to produce the event and they’ve done an amazing job of helping us realize the vision, and we’re pretty happy. For more information on joining MEF Americas, contact Karen Allen karen@m-e-f.org.

Archiviato il Mobile World Congress di Barcellona, la grande esposizione su tutto ciò che fa mobile al mondo, è tempo di avviare un’analisi sui cellulari di prossima generazione.

La prima riguarda l’interesse ancora molto alto del cellulare sul pubblico. Nella città catalana sono arrivati sono arrivati 60.000 visitatori e circa 3 mila giornalisti, oltre a 1200 aziende provenienti da 185 paesi. L’evento è stato seguito da milioni di persone via Internet o attraverso i media tradizionali (tv, radio e giornali). Secondo Gartner nel corso del 2007 sono stati circa 2,8 miliardi i cellulari usati e per il 2008 si prevedono 3,1 miliardi. Sono in crescita anche le vendite di telefonini, che passeranno dal miliardo e cento dell’anno precedente a un miliardo e duecento prospettate nel 2008.

Un altro segnale importante viene dal parterre di speaker – tutti di indubbia fama – che hanno animato il salone mondiale del telefono cellulare: i fornitori hanno portato il meglio a Barcellona per spiegare la nuova via al mobile.

Il secondo dato interessante arriva dal software, ovvero il motore, dedicato ai cellulari: sempre più sofistica, con nuove soluzioni e sempre più orientato al web. A Barcellona spiccava l’assenza di Apple, reduce dalle novità presentate in MacWorld Expo di metà gennaio a San Francisco, ma la concorrenza non si è tirata indietro. Microsoft ha presentato la nuova release di Windows Mobile 6.1, Google ha svelato i primi prototipi di terminali con il sistema operativo Android. E BEA rinnova le soluzioni che permettono la convergenza tra Web, information technology e rete all’interno di un’unica piattaforma.

Sony Ericsson ha presentato il nuovissimo Experia X1, un terminale destinato davvero ad essere un duro antagonista dei prodotti HTC, che a Barcellona si è presentata molto conservativa in attesa di sfornare nei prossimi mesi i nuovi modelli. Nokia ha mostrato le potenzialità della piattaforma Symbian Touch UI. Occhi puntati sulle ambizioni di Modu, produttore che si gioca tutto sulla compattezza e leggerezza del prodotto, senza penalizzare la qualità e l’usabilità.

Tra i temi caldi del Mobile World Congress di Barcellona c’è la convergenza di altre piattaforme sul mobile – WiMax mobile, TV mobile; contenuti video in alta definizione – e l’implementazione con dispositivi musicali e il Gps. In una società sempre più globale e “liquida”, il cellulare sarà il nuovo media, attraverso cui comunicare, scambiare informazioni, approfondire la conoscenza in tempo reale, insomma, fare rete. A questo proposito, gli operatori sembrano intenzionati ad assecondare la tendenza, offrendo ai loro utenti, da un lato, i contenuti Internet in versione mobile, così da renderli pronti sempre e ovunque, e, dall’altro, garantire connettività veloce con HSDPA e HSUPA. L’obiettivo è di assottigliare il digital divide tra fisso e mobile.

Già oggi ci ritroviamo tra le mani dei telefoni evoluti e in futuro acquisteremo vere e proprie postazioni mobili, in cui la telefonia sarà solo un’opzione. Siamo e saremo certi di utilizzarli al 100 per cento delle loro potenzialità? Ma questo è un altro discorso.

Garmin announced on 11 February the nüvifone for Q3. A prototype was shown at GSMA Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, Spain, February 11-14.

The nüvifone is a quad-band GSM mobile phone with UMTS and high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. “Google local search” is integrated. Free and subscription based dynamic content is served via Garmin OnlineTM, an online service offering dynamic content as real-time traffic, weather forecasts, and safety camera information.

A built-in camera has Location Message Service (LMS), tagging every location with the exact latitude and longitude reference of where the image was taken. There is also a direct access to the geo-located photos of Google’s Panoramio.

PR: www.garmin.com/pressroom/mobile/021108a.html

Product presentation: www.garmin.com/nuvifone

Video via YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtD4USzpoLI

Media: Garmin

Nokia announced in February at 3GSM that four handsets equipped with GPS will be launched in Q3 2008:

• Nokia 6220 classic with an electronic compass for pedestrian navigation
• Nokia N96 which will be the new flagship, following the N95
• Nokia N78 as a multimedia computer with A-GPS
• Nokia 6210 Navigator as an origin automotive assistant

Press Kit from Nokia: www.nokia.com/A4686367?kit=80

Photos: Nokia

HTC P3470 PDA phone with Windows Mobile, GPS and navigation software from TomTom is on the way to the market – February is announced.

Product Sheet: www.htc.com/product/03-product_p3470.htm

Photo: HTC

Ya corrieron muchos rumores sobre la aparición del iPhone en España. Aparentemente, Movistar tendrá el honor de presentar en el Mobile World Congress 2008 el iPhone como exclusivo desde el mes de junio o julio.

Primero fueron sólo rumores de que Movistar se quedaría con el iPhone desde febrero en España, después esos rumores también incluyeron a América Latina pero destacaban que por estos lares llegaría en julio. Ahora Applesfera publica que según le revelaron algunas fuentes de importancia de Movistar, hoy mismo en el MWC anunciarán que cuentan con la exclusividad del iPhone 3G a partir de mediados de este año para España; y aunque no mencionan nada de América Latina, yo mantengo las esperanzas… En fin, todo se resolverá hoy, a estar atentos.