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Carnival of the Mobilists No. 122 is Here

Welcome to the 122th edition of carnival of the mobilists! One of the things that I like best about the Carnival, or hosting it, is that it provides me with the opportunity to take a moment and read some very well written and interesting ideas about the mobile world. So sit comfortably and get ready for a blast of the best mobile writing of the week :)

Let's start with my pick for the best post of the week: this week’s Post of the Week is sponsored by AdMob, the world’s largest mobile advertising network. Our winner will receive a $100 coupon for mobile advertising with AdMob. Take advantage of this opportunity to drive traffic to your mobile site. This week’s winner is Tomi T. Ahonen from Communities Dominate Brands who published a though piece on Mobile as 7th Mass Media. Really worth the reading!

Mobile Advertizing

Andrew Grill asks if we're "walking the talk" when it comes to mobile advertising, and explains how he was able to become a mobile advertiser and publisher overnight, enabling him to walk the talk when it comes to mobile advertising.

Paul Ruppert at Mobile Point View contributes a podcast interview with Laura Marriott, President of the Mobile Marketing Association. Go listen to Paul’s interview with Laura covering her disappointment regarding the lack of significant mobile marketing announcements at CTIA, predictions on the growth of the mobile advertising market and how she dances between the legs of elephants!

Mobile Payment and Plans

Karen Webster from Catalyst Code takes a deeper dive into mobile payment and into why there are only 400,000 contactless terminals worldwide - a tiny sliver of all merchants - and why that differs from past experiences.

Dennis from WAP Review takes a look on AT&T’s $20 per month unlimited data plan Pay As You GO

Mobile – the Future

Ajit Jaokar from Open Gardens seeks for your input regarding which mobile/Wireless legislation is needed?

Judy Breck from Golden Swamp covers innovating news about a professor of mechanical engineering who developed a new device that uses mobile phones to make medical imaging much cheaper and more accessible to the poor.

Mobile Resources

James from Mjelly lists web forums that cover the mobile arena and provide experts knowledge.

Chetan Sharma from Always on Real-Time Access publishes a white paper covering the patenting process, written by Carlos Villamar and Chetan Sharma.

Mobile Content and Aplications

Jamie Wells from Mobilestance covers an activist-focused initiative that opens door for innovative marketing applications. Fluid Nexus, a decentralized (peer-to-peer) mobile messaging application that runs over Bluetooth, promises to do for SMS what Napster did for the .mp3 - democratize a key distribution channel by decoupling the medium from the message.

Michael Mace from Mobile Opportunity reviews a series of changes to Adobe’s free mobile flash application.

Igor Faletski from mobscure shares what kind of mobile content excites people.

Mobile Messaging

Barbara Ballard from Little Springs Designs makes an interesting point about the difference of the US, European and Japanese markets for SMS and voice.

Mobile Handsets

Ben Scott-Robinson from We Love Mobile identifies a long time consumer trend, i.e. the desire for a simple phone...

Debi Jones from Mobile Jones presents a few ways to improve the audio of the N95 using an external microphone

Timothy Yordy from I’m Not A Rat shows how to create a mini SD Wi-fi Antenna out of a plastic easter egg for his Motorola Q9m.

And a little treat before we conclude this edition: Scott had a little bit of fun trying to guess when 100% phone penetration will be reached.

Well, that concludes this edition. Have a great week and hope to catch up next week with edition # 123 of the Carnival of the Mobilists at GoMo News. 

Carnival #106 is Here!

Welcome to the 106th edition of carnival of the mobilists!

Sit comfortably and get ready for a blast of the best mobile writing of the week :)

Let's start with my pick for the best post of the week:

Ajit Jaokar of Open Gardens asks us will P2P IMS applications take off or will there be only Web applications? Very interesting food for thought and some questions for you at the end of the post.

The M Generation

Starting up a new year, two bloggers focused on the M generation; Paul Ruppert from Mobile Point View analyzes today's teens who "socialize from the confines of their bedrooms". 

James Whatley from SMS Text News invites us to think about the children of tomorrow; they will probably ask: “Hey Ma, why didn’t you keep a blog?”

Howard Rheingold of SmartMobs reccomends on a forthcoming book by Rich Ling called "New Tech, New Ties", and is "the best book so far about the social effects of the mobile phone, in the context of sociology and social capital theory (and is very well written, as well)".

Mobile Web

Jim Durbin from Situational Marketing shares his thoughts about the mobile web and asks if it is a thing of the past.

Andrew Grill asks will the 3G mobile broadband “dongle” kill the WiFi hotspot market?

And on the same subject, Dean Bubley from Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless lists what needs to happen in order that 3G-embedded PCs might become popular.

Mobile Apps and Handsets

Dennis from the Wap Review took Yahoo! Go 3.0 and the revamped Yahoo mobile portal, both of which are completely widget based, for a test drive.

Raddedas from Techype has his own rants about Yahoo! Go 3.0.

Tarek Abu-Esber reviews the best phones of 2007… and his winner is….?

Vero Pepperrell from Taptology brings 8 recommendations of 8 great ways to show your mobile phone some love in 2008 .

Well, that concludes this edition. But, bofore you leave, an announcement from Rudy:

Rudy will announce during next week another MobileMonday Peer Awards that we'll be hosting during the Mobile World Congress at Espacio Movistar on February 11 and he's organizing a Mobile Jam Session together with Caroline Lewko (from Wireless Industry Partnership), a day barcamp/workshop for mobile developers on Tuesday 12, all websites to be launched during next week. Also you're invited to the MobileSunday Barcelona. Stay tuned @ mTrends.

Have a great week and hope to catch up next week at Mobhappy :)

Carnival of Mobilists at Mobile Opportunity

This week the Carnival is set up and barking news and ideas about mobile at Mobile Opportunity. Head over to Carnival #98 where Michael Mace introduces the best mobile blogging of the week.

Carnival of Mobilists at VisionMobile

Deals, analysis, locations, phone stuff, widget topics, and more - are covered, and framed by handsome graphics this week at Andreas Constantinou's Carnival #97.

Enjoy!

Carnival of Mobilists at Abhishek Tiwari's

The Carnival of the Mobilists midway of this week is hosted by Abhishek Tiwari in Santa Cruz, California. Follow the link to read the best mobilist writing of the week. Enjoy! :)

Carnival of the Mobilists at The Mobile Gadgeteer

Our midway this week is at Matthew Miller's The Mobile Gadgeteer, where Carnival of the Mobilists #90 is sharing some synergy with Western Washington’s Puyallup Fair. Catch up on the fun and excitement of the best mobilist blogging of the week!

Carnival of the Mobilists at Wap Review

Some delightful ducks and the best writing on mobile topics at Wap Review where the Carnival Mobilists has arrived this week. This week there are many great posts featured this time, make sure you don't miss it :)

Carnival of the Mobilists #88 is Here

Welcome to the 88th edition of carnival of the mobilists!

Sit comfortably and get ready for a blast of the best mobile writing of the week :)

Let's start with my pick for the best post of the week:

Ajit Jaokar of Open Gardens asks us if at the next time we upgrade, will we choose the device first or will you choose the network? And answers how it will affect the mobile market, Fascinating!

Mobile Content and Apps

Nick Cowie shows a very convincing (and funny) video demo of why should we build mobile specific websites.

Dennis of Wap Review reviews FeedM8, which creates mobile sites from RSS feeds.

New comer (welcome!) Rita El Khoury of Dotsisx shares from her experience handling a new WM mobile handset in comaprison to Symbian OS.

Kevin Fleming of Satellite TV Guru explores DirecTV Sat-Go which is portable satellite television for your mobile.

Mobile Marketing

Debi Jones of Mobile Jones brings a great overview of Nokia's history of failures with marketing in the US market and Nokia's latest decision of launching the new US market device, the N95 3, in London(!).

C Enrique Ortiz of ...About Mobility raises the importance of pricing models as one of the main obstacles to adoption of new mobile applications and services and shares some tips for mobile software product developers to reduce costs.

Tim Trent of Marketing by Permission brings "hot from the press" the insights of Renzo Marchini and Kate Tebbutt of Dechert LLP, London about the legality of Bluetooth spamming.

Mobile Industry

Paul Ruppert of Mobile Point View raises the question of whether multimodal messaging is the death of mobile text messaging and answers in a solid overview of the market divided to 2 parts (don't miss part 2 later on this week).

Stephen Johnston of ThreeDimensionalPeople presents “Enterprise2.0” and what it means for mobility in a very thorough and worth reading overview.

Abhishek Tiwari illustrates why should we (the consumers) care about Sprint’s XOHM. Great post explaining how the WiMax will affect all of us.

Jason Devitt of Skydeck responds to Tracy Ford's (one of the editors of RCR Wireless) article where she suggested that allowing any device to run on wireless networks would make life harder for developers and not necessarily increase the choice of handsets for consumers.

Ian Welsh of The Agonist also talks about the need for openness in the mobile industry.

And if you are an environmentalist, Kevin Bedell of 21st Century Citizen presents how you can recycle your old mobile phone.

Well, that concludes this edition. Have a great week and hope to catch up next week at my dear friend Dennis @ the Wap Review :)

Carnival of the Mobilists at Darla's

Hi all,

Better late than never, right?? (these summer vacations, I tell ya'...)

The Mobile Diva, our beloved Darla Mack, has got the 87th Carnival of the Mobilists up at her site, so be sure to check it out!

Oh, and don't worry, tomorrow's edition will be posted here :)

Carnival of Mobilists at MobHappy

The Carnival of the mobilists makes a stop back in its hometown at MobHappy! Go ahead and follow the link, you don't want to miss the best of the mobile writing of this week edited by the wiz Carlo Longino.

Carnival of Mobilists at Mobile Point View

Hit the beach scene for this week’s Carnival at my friends', Paul Ruppert's Mobile Point View. Carnival goers join some of the best global mobile content, comments and community of opinion influencers surfing the web.

Carnival of the Mobilists at Golden Swamp

This week's Carnival is hosted by the Carnival ringmaster herself, Judy Breck at Golden Swamp. Judy has done a great job of wrangling hosts to insure that the Carnival happens every  week and generally keeping everything running smoothly. This week she's put a fine collection of the latest posts on everything mobile with a timely Harry Potter theme.

Carnival of Mobilists at ... About Mobility

Sorry sorry sorry for being SO late...

My dear friend C. Enrique Ortiz is hosting the best writing on mobile at his revised blog. So don't miss it, Enrique has done a terrific job!

Carnival of Mobilists at Route 79

Better late than never... Carnival no. 79 is hostes at Jag's Route 79 blog. Jag had done a great job hosting and even making this cool clip of his 16 mobile phones of the last 10 years! :)

Carnival of Mobilists at Symbian Guru

This week's Carnival is hosted by the one and only, my dear friend Ricky of the Symbian Guru. Make sure you're not missing it!

Carnival of Mobilists at Symbian in Motion

Carnival 77 on Symbian in Motion hosted by Zach. Drop by to enjoy this week’s mobile blogging at its best. Read a round-up of the best current blogging about many mobile topics.

Carnival of Mobilists at Twofones

This week’s edition is brought to you by Twofones. Lots of good reading this week so head over! :)

 

Carnival of Mobilists at VisionMobile Forum

This week’s edition is brought to you by Hampus Jakobsson and Andreas Constantinou at the VisionMobile Forum. Lots of good reading this week si head over! :)

 

Carnival of Mobilists at Martin's Mobile Technology Page

The Carnival is online now at my dear friend's Martin's Mobile Technology Page. Martin has done an masterful job of reviewing this week’s best mobile blogging so head over and enjoy! :)

Thanks Martin for entering my post so late... (I was acctually 100% sure that I'm too late for this week and that it will wait for the next edition).

The Carnival of the Mobilists no. 73 Is Here

Photo by Honeycut07

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the 73rd Carnival of the Mobilists!

Sit comfortably and get ready for a blast of the best mobile writing of the week :)

Let's start with my pick for the best post of the week:

Tomi T. Ahonen from Communities Dominate Brands shares his thoughts around the 7 needs of mobile phones, or as he calls them "The 7 Deadly C's". Very interesting and worth the reading!

Mobile Content and Apps

The Ringback tone service has been highly successful in Asia ever since its early launching days back in 2002. Xellular Identity brings amazing ringback tones usage and penetration figures from a Chinese mobile operator. And as you can see, the ringback tones service still is a “cash cow” for Asian!

Alfie Dennen from moblog UK reviews using Fring on the N73 using 3's X-series package. Fring is a Series 60 application which supports Yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, Google Talk, Skype and SIP numbers.

Zach from the Nokia S60 3rd Edition Applications Review reviews a new Nokia S60 app called "Best Profiles" by Smartphoneware. Best Profiles gives users to automatic profile switching functionality according to schedules, calendar events and charging status.

Mobile Value Chain

Ricky Cadden, our Symbian Guru, brings the hottest news about one of the mobile manufacturers in the US (Nokia), which is starting to look past the carriers and explore its own channels of distribution.

Morten Hjerde, visiting at Ajit Jaokar's Open Gardens, shares from his (bad) experience as a small creator of mobile data services and mobile games the flaws of the mobile entertainment value chain. 

Mobile Consumer

Daniel Taylor from the mobile Enterprise Weblog raises one of the most urging question we all have asked ourselves, at least once or twice, whether the carrier handset subsidy is a good thing for the marketplace?

Dennis the editor of Wapreview covers the latest news about T-Mobile USA which is blocking Java applications and brings some helpful tips of how to update your phone settings to get it working, in the meantime.

Rod McLaren from Mobbu brings his insights of the MEX conference held in London last week, and in his words: "a note on the underlying and somewhat inconsistent themes (more openness! and more like Apple!) heard in discussing how to improve mobile user experience. As a bonus, there are some slightly inept drawings too!"

Mobile Marketing

Tim Trent from Marketing by Permission shares thoughts and insights about the complications related to deploying a valid and effective SMS campaign.

Mobile Design

David Beers from Software Anywhere presents how the following could mean to users - while everyone is focused on what will drive wireless data usage, mobile OS vendors have made some interesting changes in how your data may be stored on the mobile and what we will be able to do with it.

Barbara Ballard of Little Springs Design shares her views on brand management across devices & platforms; while brand owners talk about wanting a consistent user experience across devices, including computers and interactive televisions, there’s more into it!

Andreas Constantinou from Vision Mobile Forum brings detailed facts and figures on Flash Lite, from Adobe’s revenue figures, to Flash Lite device shipments, operator deployments, technology, Flash Home and Flash Cast.

Well, that concludes this edition. Have a great week and hope to catch up next week at my dear friend Martin's Mobile Technology Page!

Carnival of Mobilists at 3Lib

Carnival of the Mobilists #72 is hosted by Steve Litchfield of 3-Lib. Head over for the best mobile round-up for this week's Carnival!

Carnival of Mobilists at Mobile Marketing & Spam

The Carnival of the Mobilists is back in town with a blast of the best mobile writing of the week. Troy of the Mobile Marketing & Spam is hosting it so head over! :)

Carnival of Mobilists at Always On Real-Time Access

This week’s Carnival is now online at Always On Real-Time Access. Chetan Sharma has done an excellent job as Midway Master. An extra treat is his AORTA explanation in his bit of philosophy that introduces the Carnival.

The Carnival of the Mobilists at Wapreview

The Carnival of the Mobilists is back in town with a blast of the best mobile writing of the week. Dennis of the Wap Review has done a great job putting all together so head over! :)

Carnival of Mobilists at All About Symbian

The Carnival of Mobilists is back in town with a blast of the best mobile writing of the week. Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian has done a great job putting all together so head over! :)

Carnival of the Mobilists at Golden Swamp

The Carnival of Mobilists is back in town with a blast of the best mobile writing of the week. Judy Breck of the Golden Swamp has done a great job putting all together so head over! :)

Carnival of Mobilists at M-trends

This week a dear friend and mobilist, Rudy De Waele of M-trends, is hosting the Carnival of the Mobilists. Rudy has done a great job mastering so many interesting posts, you really don't want to miss it! Enjoy! :)

Carnival of Mobilists at TomSoft

This week David Beers is hosting the Carnival of the Mobilists after a short break.  David has done such a great job, you really don't want to miss it! Head over and enjoy! :)

Carnival of the Mobilists - Khosla Post of the Year!

Celebrating the GSM together with the new mobile year, now and it’s finally time to celebrate!

As you know, the Carnival of the Mobilists is a weekly celebration of the best writing about mobile from around the world. This post brings you the best writing of the year and is therefore definitely worth reading in full and voting on your favourite one.

I was very lucky to get included in the 10 finalists (out of over 50 entries which were received), so as Russell puts it - "what we have here is the creme de la creme for you to enjoy."

Enjoy and don't forget to vote online for post of the year (password: mobilists) :)

Carnival of Mobilists at Wireless World Japan

Better late than never, right...? Jan Kuczynski has the 61st edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists up at Wireless World Japan, in fine matsuri style, so head over! Nice work Jan and sorry for the late link.

Carnival of Mobilists at Mobbu

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is up at Rod McLaren's Mobbu! Head over to the Carnival for the best writing on mobile of the last week.

Enjoy!

The Carnival of the Mobilists no. 59 Is Here

Photo by Rick Takagi Some rights reserved

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the 59th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists! Sit comfortably and get ready for a blast of the best mobile writing of the week :)

Mobile Content and Services

As part of the interviews with leading research companies dedicated to the telecoms industry (previous guests were Strategy Analytics, Wireless World Forum), Michele MacKenzie of Ovum visits Xellular Identity and shares Ovum's Forecasts and insights regarding the mobile content market.

Justin Oberman covers the launch of the New York City Mobile Trial sponsored by Nokia, Citibank, Mastercard and Cingular and shares his experience with the Nokia 6126 with the NFC chip (Cingular branded) mobile phone.

Dennis of the Wap Review covers Mobitopia, a del.icio.us clone for mobile links only.

Following his very interesting post “Understanding Mobile 2.0” Rudy De Waele created a wiki space to start categorizing the so-called Mobile 2.0 companies and invites you to add your own information and keep it updated.

The Mobile Diva, Darla Mack, raises her thumbs up on the threaded SMS Idea. Hey, when you're talking to someone via sms you're having a conversation... so why not display it as such? :)

The iPhone

The buzz around the iPhone is still humming!

Krisse from All About Symbian joined the fun and picks the 'best post of the week' title with 'why $50 phones are revolutionary while $500 ones aren't'; and here's a quote I really liked:

"The talk of a "revolution" sounds especially hollow because it completely misrepresents what a revolution is: something that touches the lives of as many people as possible as profoundly as possible. Technologically cutting edge gadgets like the Apple iPhone or Nokia N95 are going in completely the opposite direction to a revolution, and by concentrating on them their manufacturers are deliberately restricting the breadth and depth of their products' influence."

David Beers hopes that the closed-platform iPhone could spur on a new era of open-platform handheld tablets which he calls "PDA 2.0" :)

On the same subject, Michael Mace proposes an alternative explanation to the previous answers provided to "why can't you add software to the iPhone?" - because of Windows.

Patrick Altoft tries to help understand the complexities of the speculations related to the Apple vs. Cisco iPhone trademark dispute and brings Eric Ramage's expert opinions as a Trademark Attorney.

C. Enrique Ortiz responds to a previous post by Christian Lindholm and shares his views on the subject of iPhone's new user interface.

Jason Delport agrees that Apple has raised the bar on the mobile user interface.

Kiran Bellubbi covers the inventory, production and distribution strategies between MoTo, Nokia and Apple and concludes that clearly Apple has won this battle.

Bill Day sums up some of early reports on iPhone while laying out three key issues identified during the first week: the lack of 3G, the lack of proper imaging capabilities and the lack of developer support.

Mobile OS

Anders Borg brings a section-by-section analysis of the MIDP 3.0 draft spec. I just learnt that MIDP 3.0 “is the new, yet unfinished, version of MIDP. CLDC/MIDP is the most popular mobile phone application platform…" Also Anders states (smiling) that this post is “not for the faint of heart” :)

Andreas Constantinou clarifies the mobile Linux landscape today and explains how there are five different types of offerings: from Linux support packages (the Lego bricks) all the way to complete products (the castles). He essentially maps Linux vendors and offers insight into how these vendors are like and unlike.

Thomas Menguy asks whether software or OS vendors have to define the user experience.

Mobile HS reviews

Welcome to Ricky Cadden, a new contributor to the CotM, with a reach review of the Nokia N75 (Cingular branded) mobile handset.

Also Chris Johnson reviews the Blackberry Pearl.

Other Mobile Related

VoIP Lowdown reviews Skype’s plans to enter the mobile market with Wi-Fi phones and dual-mode cordless handsets among the company’s new range of products scheduled to debut this year.

Leonard Low lists ten good reasons why mobile devices are important for education.

Just before saying goodbye:

• You're all invited to the second annual MobileSunday. It's "an unofficial, informal and generally cool and funky gathering of mobile bloggers and their chums-that will be taking place in Barcelona on the eve of this year's 3GSM World" organized by Rudy De Waele. For more information - visit this page.
• Don't forget the MoMo Global Peer Awards 2007 in Barcelona during 3GSM (February 12th starting at 3PM) including the "Host of the Year Award" by Carnival of the Mobilists. The winning blogger will receive a complimentary trip to Helsinki for the MobileMonday Global Summit in May!

Have a great week and hope to catch up next week at Mobbu or in Barcelona :)

Carnival of Mobilists at TomSoft

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is up at TomSoft. There's a fair amount of posts on the Apple iPhone annoucement, hey - we're excited! Head over to the Carnival!

Carnival of Mobilists at Wap Review

After a short holiday break, The Carnival of Mobilists is back in town with a blast of the best mobile writing of the week. Dennis of the Wap Review has done a great job putting all together so head over! :)

Carnival of Mobilists at MOpocket