So tonight, I paid some cash to get into this event … and it was worth it (some of panel actually flew in to give it, so thanks to them). The speakers were excellent, and the people at the event were all good contacts … although I wished it could have been longer … there were over 300 people at the event … a mixture of MIT (grad) students, and corporates. Sounds like a mobile monday is in order for the Boston area. Alessandro, get on it!

When I pulled out my iriver u10 at the networking portition … and started showing it to someone from the MIT Media Lab, I instaneously had 5 people flock around me asking me what it was. Then I started showing the UI and capabilities. “Is that Flash?” - Someone asked. Yes, I had to smile. I proceeded to speak about the pros and cons of device (pro it has the best flash UI and great Flash Lite implementation … con: the software, synch, and wireless connectivity is lacking) … needless to say they thought it was cool … a few J2me folks were actually asking quite a lot about Flash Lite (how long does it take xyz, APIS, mobile emulation, etc) … poor souls, I showed them the “lite” (pun intended).

The mobile event was great. Particuarly, Hamid Akhaven - Global CTO, T-mobile had some good points … but for me, it was other folks that were interesting: Timothy Jasionoswski: Technologist for VoIP & Rich-Communications; Nokia, Jeffrey Glass, President & CEO of m-Qube,; Allan MacKinnon, Founder and CTO, Everypoint Inc. and the CEO from a mobile search company called jumptap …

Mobile search you heard it right … if that company does mobile search right, it’ll be great for the industry (just think where the Internet would be now, without Yahoo! … my first real web experience was through Yahoo under the Mosaic browser! We need the same thing for mobile!) … I guess their main competitor is potentially Google … doing mobile search sounds like a mighty big endeavor … one where an rich user experience would be key … hint hint, Flash Lite.

There was also talk about an “always connected” device (sorry, forgot the term tmobile used) … so even in a dead spot, your phone or device would switch from one protocol to another … i.e. your phone jumps from a 3g network to wifi on demand … maybe next year we’ll see this with some nokia handsets.

There was also talk of a 4G network on the board. Obviously years and years away from us here in the States. But apparently a 4G involves a complete haul of infrastructure, protocols, etc (wouldn’t be CDMA based).

Lots of talk about how much dough people were making off mobile, and how it was divied up between all the players … also talk about next gen data services, and how that might impact the whole playing field of mobile economics.

Anyways, it was useful to get some insight on how the mobile economy works … and fnding out who is taking what out of my mobile transactions and service.

One thing … it would have been a better event if they had someone from Japan on the panel to speak about overseas asian markets. Next time, perhaps.

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