Carnival of the mobilists #58
January 15th, 2007
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Here is carnival number #58 with a huge section on the big topic of the week, which is of course the iPhone announcement from Apple. Here are the posts discussing it:
- Let’s start with the Impact of the Apple iPhone : A good summary of iPhone capacities, issues and a lot of interesting remarks from Michale Mace. Even if it might not be the ultimate phone, that’s true that every new device will be evaluated against iPhone’s specs….And make sure to read the paragraph about Microsoft comments on the iPhone, the day before the presentation!
- David from PikeSoft comes with a big question:What the iPhone means for mobile computing . David also mentions the secret project from Palm, which could eventually be in the same space than the iPhone! Palm was a very innovative company in the early days, so may be it’s time for them to recreate something ahead of the iPhone?
- Bill Day thinks that WiFi is more important than HSPDA for early iPhone success, especially in the US. But in Europe, a data centric phone without 3G will probably not be as sexy as expected.
- Ajit opens a different perspective on the iPhone impact on the industry. In his post, The iPhone is extraordinary not because of it’s UI but because it’s the tail wagging the dog ... he explores the impact on this new device for operators, and first, for Cingular.
- Greg Clayman talk of the The Great iPhone Debate
- Chris Johnosn ask :iPhone! Should you buy it? , especially considering his recent acquisition of a Motorola Q and the iPhone price tag .
- Last entry about the iPhone, question the usage price of applications: Five Thousand Dollars per Megabyte seems to be the price of using iChat on the iPhone! you probably understand better why third parties applications are blocked now!
- And a small mention to my post about inevitable evolution of iPhone competitors: the show is over, so when iPhone clones will comes?
But there is a life outside the iPhone:
- Communities Dominate Brands have a fascinating article about mobile phone numbers, in perspective of others “big” numbers (TV, Cars, Internet, etc…) Putting 2.7 billion in context: Mobile phone users. And this is my pick as a post of the week.
- Troy Norcross from Mobile and Marketing Spam explains us that Content Owners should avoid mobile network operators. , especially in the future where operators walled garden may not be relevant anymore.
- CEO pointed out Mobile Payments - one of the most important annoucements in CES 2007. The announce that Visa and Nokia will turn cell phones into credit cards might be huge for the industry, if well executed!
- Daniel Taylor dig into the The Enterprise MVNO Challenge,
- Jason Delport did a review of Financial Times Java ME News Reader
- We have also a useful test of JumpTap, one of the player in mobile search: JumpTap - Pure Mobile Search
- We have also a very informative post about How To Update Your Nokia Phone Software. I do not have an E50, so I can not tell you how accurate this post is!
- Not fully linked to mobile phone, but to mobile devices (cars!) : Ford and Microsoft ‘SyncUp’ to provide Auto Software. 2007 is expected to be the year where auto computing will take off, and this is a first proof of it…
- Last entry was about:Fusion to Showcase VoIP Might
That’s all for this week, plenty of usefull reading while some of you are waiting for your next iPhone!
Next week host is Xellular Identity…
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1. Wap Review&hellip | January 16th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Carnival 59…
Photo by Rick Takagi Some rights reserved.
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Thomas Landspurg at Tomsoft.com.
I’d never been to Tomsoft before this Carnival but I like the site and have added it to my Google Reader. It’s an …
2. Mobile Enterprise Weblog&hellip | January 16th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Carnival of the Mobilists, No. 58 at TomSoft…
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is up at TomSoft. There’s a fair amount of ink on the Apple iPhone annoucement, but who can blame us for getting excited about the prospects of having Apple do for mobile what they’ve…
3. BillDay.com » iPhon&hellip | January 17th, 2007 at 9:55 am
[…] Lack of third generation wireless (3G) has been picked at by Nokians and others. Read my take in “WiFi is more important than HSPDA for early iPhone success“, which was picked for the Carnival of the Mobilists carnival #58. […]
4. twofones&hellip | January 18th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Carnival #58 (and the iPhone, of course)…
The Carnival of the Mobilists is live and can be found here. This week our host is Thomas Landspurg, CTO of MobileScope (formally In-Fusio.) I like Tom’s blog, TomSoft, a lot and will be sure to start aggregating his feed….
5. BillDay.com&hellip | January 19th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Is iPhone WiFi preferable for cord cutters?…
Alan A. Reiter of Camera Phone Report and Thomas Landspurg of TomSoft both left thoughtful comments on my “WiFi is more important than HSPDA for early iPhone success” blog post from last week.
Tom wrote:
My main point would be that the two…
6. BillDay.com » Cisco&hellip | January 19th, 2007 at 8:40 am
[…] Linksys iPhone ads are showing up on a number of Apple iPhone related sites and blog posts. The ad text reads: iPhone by Linksys […]
7. Carnival 58 at TomSoft at&hellip | January 20th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
[…] Thomas Landspurg has Carnival 58 up at his TomSoft site, so be sure to check it out for week’s best writing about mobile. […]
8. Everything and the Mobile&hellip | January 22nd, 2007 at 12:13 am
[…] During the last LiPS forum face to face meeting we had in Seoul (thanks again to Mizi Research, great organization), Access/Palmsource presented its Application framework, now Open-Sourced: Hiker, and one point has raised a little debat: it is fixing the way applications can be layered, interacting with each others (One running Application with the User Focus at a time, no multiple instance of the same application): so it is hard to implement some Vodaphone Live! use cases requring multiple launches of a same application like : You are in your Address Book, you recieve an sms, you answer, you look for a contact launching again your address book from the sms, the address book will be on top when you close it you are back to the sms and when you close the sms…you have your first address book below with the same state before the sms reception, at the beginning. It’s not a secret, I’m a big old time palm fan, but now I’ve a better understanding of what is a phone and the industry around it: Hiker seems great and may bring good usability practices, etc BUT it will be difficult to fullfill some Operators or OEM requirements, cause it fixes the way the User Interactions have to be done: it reduces innovation (good discussion about that at MobHappy) Apple has made an Apple phone from A to Z, from Software to Hardware (see this Michael Mace article if you were on another planet, and this nice round-up at TomSoft for the 58# Carnival)…but if you (as a phone manufacturer) want to make a phone you designed, chance you are an hardware company, and you make money with it: […]
9. » Atualizando a lei&hellip | April 13th, 2007 at 1:49 am
[…] #58: by TomSoft […]
10. Flomax | August 2nd, 2007 at 2:29 pm
But if you (as a phone manufacturer) want to make a phone you designed, chance you are an hardware company, and you make money with it.
11. Mobile Heaven » Blo&hellip | November 7th, 2007 at 3:09 am
[…] The latest edition of Carnival of the mobilist is online. Articles on the iPhone, iPhone again and more iPhone! But that’s not all, there’s plenty more good articles to read through. […]
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