Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Mobile World Congress - day 3 (and final)
Wednesday is the unofficial last day of the congress. The official one is tomorrow, but nobody is there, they just stretch it to four days to give more people the opportunity to speak (and therefore pay for exhibiting). As the last day, it is the one where people chat about "was this one better than last one? What about Cannes?" and so on.
My takes:
- It was better than last year and the one before. 2008 is the year of mobile 2.0. The year of the Mobile Internet. Everyone is getting ready for it.
- There were few good hardware news. One was Modu. A very cool idea of a device that can have many "covers". The difference is that the covers transform the device from a smartphone to a dumbphone to a music player. Very interesting concept. Every carrier can build its cover and differentiate. And it is low cost. Wins the HW of the conference award from me.
- There was a lot of femtocell. It is happening for real. This is the way mobile operators get in your house and have you pay for them not to upgrade their antennas. Very clever. It makes a lot of sense. Zero installation troubles, no changes on your phone, five bars everywhere in the house. It will spread like a virus if the operators realize they should not charge for anything but the device, since it makes their service sticky and high quality.
- Location location location. Everywhere. It is happening. Finally. Nokia itself revealed four devices this week. All with GPS. Get ready for mobile advertising location based.
Posted by Fabrizio Capobianco at 11:54
6 Comments:
Oren said...
Here's my take on modu at MWC which I really think was presenting the future of mobile - Convergence!
http://mobilepush.blogspot.com/2008/02/mobile-world-congress-modu-mania.html
Comment Posted at 07:29
Fabrizio,
Off-Topic, I just installed the latest 0.7.2 Funambol and again the settings do not stick under 1.1.3, just like in the past. You did give me a version 0.7 which worked, but the newest one is not working... This might also be due to the fact that now I have an OTB 1.1.3 which I jailbroke/unlocked using ZiPhone. And indeed this seems to be the case since I added the funambol source and went back to 0.7 and the settings bug is also there. So apparently whatever fix you implemented to 0.7 does not solve the settings issue on OTB 1.1.3 + ZiPhone. Any solution coming? Will it be soon???
Thanks,
Alan
Comment Posted at 14:04
Hi Fabrizio,
I am having problems with Funambol 0.7.2 on an OTB 1.1.3 iPhone jailbroken and unlocked via ZiPhone. The user name and password never save and revert to the default guest one. Are you aware of this issue? Can we expect any update to solve this anytime soon?
Regards,
Alan
Comment Posted at 16:25
Fabrizio said...
Hi Alan,
ziphone screws up the Installer just a tiny bit, enough to make the new Funambol packaging not working ;-)
I asked Shaun to fix it. It should be out soon.
If you are curious to see what the problem is, please check Shaun's blog.
fabrizio
Comment Posted at 18:33
Fabrizio said...
Alan, can you try 0.7.3 and let me know if it works? It should.
fabrizio
Comment Posted at 09:40
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