1. SIP – free phone calls with alphanumeric IDs or email addresses [we dont need mobile numbers anymore!]…also free data, mail, etc

2. LBS-like Place Search – Sony has embedded (not activated) this in all handsets and PSPs which make them all location-aware [they're one up on Nokia's nGage efforts cos i actually saw how this worked in all of 4 seconds]. On the other hand GoogMaps was 800m off the mark.

3. IPV6, WiMax, plus the new Google network [oops ...you haven't heard?]

4. embedded tracking – already in q u i t e a L A R G E number of SIM cards, accuracy to under 20m, including activation of fencing and [note] web function calls. spelt as mHealth, seniors, husbands/wives, villains, pets, dating, shopping, CRM, logistics, and military [with triangulation, less than 5m]. This is NOT GPS.

5. GPhone apps – easy peasy to all that’s greasy – tech mechanics dont need much to make almost any app get onto the G device – it’s not the tech but the db marketing

6. Education and PDAs – already a reality as it replaces dataloggers and syncs with schools’ wifi for podcasts and announcements – many colleges already have their own customised browsers whi auto searches their own research databases

there’s a fair bit more….but i fear moving out of topic

felix

The most intriguing point to me and where we working on with handivi.com, is the #5 – mobile cloud computing. Still I didn’t quite understand what you consider “computing”, since you’re basically talking about ubiquity – running everything anywhere. The cloud effect on this is to have your stuff sync’ed or just the data outside the phone/terminal, as you wrote, turning the device into a dumb and dispensable equipment, pushing along into this area the operator and obviously their services (voice, data plan). People are nomads and that’s probably the biggest change from todays paradigm. For me, this year will be all about ubiquity, ubiquity, ubiquity; the possibility to have all my data in a central place, using the mobile operator just as a carrier. If I loose my phone or change devices, I would just go to somewhere and pull all my stuff again.

But to achieve this ubiquity, we need faster connections and probably generous data plans. We’re half way there.