Comments on: Future of Mobile 2007 overview

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:44:45 +0000

Hi Lisa,

Good to know that our (my) feedback/thoughts are taken onboard.

As I said – my comments really aren’t meant to take anything away from the efforts of the organisers (yourselves at Carsonified) – it was a good event.

I may’ve moaned about the focus but you can guarantee I’ll be first in line when the tickets go on sale for the next one..

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:50:12 +0000

HIa – thanks for posting your thoughts. Looks like we had a really mixed crowd of people in attendance and I know that not every session resonated with every single person (but that’s a single track conference on a huge topic for you). It sounds as though some were surprised by the focus on the mobile web – although the schedule and line-up was pretty clear on the FOM site. Overall though we’ve received some great feedback and will definitely be doing the conference again – get in touch f you’d like to suggest improvements or volunteer speaking services Cheers

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:54:19 +0000

Cheers GeekYouUp.

Really enjoyed the day all in all – it was great to see some friendly faces and to have a good natter about what’s going on in the industry etc…

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:48:50 +0000

@Whatley: social beer-fuelled SMS smackdowns are the new black…

By: GeekYouUp

GeekYouUp — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:33:11 +0000

(note to editor, I used a less than sign in my last comment and it seems to have cut off, hence the repost)

Good work Whatley, I look forward to more from you on smstextnews. The Android demo was pretty impressive, the presenter developed a web browser in less than 8 minutes (although he was using an api for displaying a web page in a window ), still the important point was that the screen layout was defined in an XML resource file and the logic was in java.

By: GeekYouUp

GeekYouUp — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:28:27 +0000

Good work Whatley, I look forward to more from you on smstextnews. The Android demo was pretty impressive, the presenter developed a web browser in

By: alan p

alan p — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:26:58 +0000

Sadly, what you heard *was* the “future of mobile” – it just looks like the present as the industry is so resistant to change .

I think the Google guy said it all when he said Google decided to enter as it did not believe the current players were willing (or capable?) to innovate in the industry.

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:16:56 +0000

@D – Apparently the Android stuff was *very* exciting to some of the coders/developers in the room (I’m looking around for Dan Lane) but it just didn’t do anything for me… sorry!

@Mike – Yes mate – I wholeheartedly agree. Just wish the day was more geared towards this kind of thinking..
(I take it you’re the same Mike I ended up putting the world to rights with in the pub afterwards?!)

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:01:21 +0000

Yup. I concur. Everyone uses phones for talking, yet in the UK it’s for an average of six minutes a day. Room for growth? That’s the future of mobile. It will be like what you have now, just a whole lot more aware of you, your friends and your plans.It will help you organize your life, save you time, money and stress.