{"id":242,"date":"2007-01-07T14:14:59","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T22:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T17:34:31","slug":"carnival-time-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/242\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a long holiday break, the Carnival of the Mobilists<\/em> is back. I’m honored to host it here at Wap Review<\/em> with a great selection of posts from all areas of the mobile scene.<\/p>\n

History and Prognostication: <\/strong>It’s the time of the year to review where we’ve been and what’s ahead.<\/p>\n

Mad4mobilePhones<\/a>‘ Patrick Altoft highlights a prediction by researcher Dr Martin Illsley that 2007 will be the year for complaining by picture message<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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C. Enrique Ortiz at Mobility Weblog<\/a> offers his analysis of mobility’s current state as well as predictions for this new year in Thoughts on Mobility 2007<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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I’m happy to say that Greg Clayman, “mtv networks’ wireless media guy” at twofones<\/a> shares my enthusiasm mobile Gmail and Reader. Greg has an idea what Google’s next mobile move might be in Google Mobile.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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At Abiro – Mobile News<\/a> Anders Borg looks not one, but 15 years into the future and speculates that The future mobile phone is most likely not a phone<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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MobHappy<\/a>‘s Carlo Longino spotlights the mobile highs and lows of the past year in That Was The Year That Was<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Reviews:<\/strong> Looking at new mobile hardware and software<\/p>\n
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Rudy De Waele at m-trends.org<\/a> reviews four new S60 handsets in Nokia Nseries: Leaps Ahead!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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At Smart Mobs<\/a>, Gerrit Visser looks at a new SMS based local mobile community built on sharing events and bands in A MySpace for the mobile generation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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My own contribution is a look a promising but as yet incomplete LoSoSo (Local Social Software) app, Socialight – Geocoded Stickynotes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Troy Norcross at Mobile Marketing & SPAM<\/a> explains why mobile search isn’t working in Yell.com lost in mobile search<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Technology:<\/strong> How stuff works and how to make it better.<\/p>\n
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Ajit Jaokar at Open Gardens<\/a> weighs the merits of two competing technologies for enabling dynamic rich mobile content – one proprietary, the other open – in Flash Lite is not WICD – But it should be!<\/a> which is my pick for the Post of the Week.<\/strong>
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Mihai Preda at The anatomy of a project<\/a> offers a likely to be controversial proposal for the Java ME development community in JAD is BAD<\/a>. In the process, Mihai does a good job of explaining the Java app installation process in layman’s terms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Treo Today<\/a>‘s Azizi Jennis goes off on one of my pet peeves, proprietary mobile cable connectors in It\u2019s time for a mobile device connector standard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Phil at Moonsider Mobile<\/a> provides some advice for users about mobile’s biggest religious war in CDMA vs. GSM, which one is the best for you?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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At SmallDoses<\/a>, Kiran Bellubbi presents his theory on why SMS is so successful and what that means for mobile application designers in Designing better mobile apps – learning from SMS\u2019s stickiness<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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David Beers at Software Everywhere<\/a> takes a look at the mobile Linux code that Access has Open Sourced in ACCESS opens source to Linux application framework<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Business Plans: <\/strong>Winners and Losers and how to be the former:<\/p>\n
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Sagar Satapathy discusses Yahoo’s Voice over IM entry and it’s implications for Google and VOIP providers like Vontage in VoIP + VoIM Phone War Heats Up<\/a> at VoIP Lowdown<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Carnival newcomer Nick Wright at Vir(tu)al Marketing and Media<\/a> has a great analysis of where user generated video content on mobile is (and isn’t) going in Media Mobile video turns to self-defeating broadcast model<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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In Ringback Tone Market Challenges (Part II)<\/a> Xen Mendelsohn at Xellular Identity<\/a> proposes a new off portal business model for ringback tones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Andreas Constantinou proposes a new model for selling handsets, a modular approach where extra cost features like an FM Radio, Bluetooth, HSDPA or enhanced security are added at point of sale in Retail idea #3: Selling hardware features<\/a> at VisionMobile Forum<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Mobile Opportunity’s Michael Mace in Sprint and WiMax: Are these guys serious?<\/a> is bullish on the US carrier’s WiMax plan – if they actually pull it off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
That wraps up the 58th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists. Next week’s host is Thomas Landspurg at TomSoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n
If you have something to say about mobile, consider contributing your blog post to the Carnival. Visit mobili.st<\/a> to learn how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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