CTIA SF 07: What is the deal with mobile?

October 25, 2007 | Event Report

So this was my 9th CTIA event and it is starting to feel like a homecoming. I know I will see Jon Pepper at Mobile Focus, the big press event, and he will offer to “buy” me a martini at his icy bar. Surely Brad Smith, the tall, deep voiced journo from Wireless Week, will be seen up and down the halls hustling from meeting to meeting. The folks at Qualcomm will have all the cool pods showcasing new mobile technologies, like EA Mobile’s games on their BREW devices. And Nokia and Motorola will have the plushest carpet and best lighting to lure everyone in with flashy new devices.

I think Apple and Google have quickly changed the conversation, though. It is all about how to deal with the carriers, or not. They really are just dumb pipes like we have been saying all along, right? Walt Mossberg’s recent column really summarized the thoughts and feelings many of us in the mobile world have had for a long, long time.

Here is where I have to plug our client Trolltech. They shipped the first real open phone to stimulate experimentation with new mobile applications on a working GSM Smartphone from the developer community and did so about 18 months ago. It was called Greenphone. They just ended the project because all the phones sold out. This whole open phone trend is really getting interesting, and with the convergence of WiMax, Skype, mobile widget, and the rumoured GPhone, it will stay that way for a while.

-Candace

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