Welcome to the Carnival of the Mobilists touching down here at Mobyaffiliates. Last week Mobithinking hosted a very successful Carnival after having had to call for more posts during the weekend. We’re already seeing the benefit of their rallying call with a nice group of posts this week in the Carnival inbox…
Post of the week is a tough one – am going to give joint honours to Terence Eden and Tomi Ahohen – Terence Eden’s post is such as brilliant detailed review, with loads of screenshots whilst Tomi Ahohen really brings a challenging and alternative perspective to the Silicon Valley, iphone dominated view of the mobile world. Congrats guys!
Carnival regular and mobile-industry LEGEND Ajit Jaokar provides a thoughtful post on lessons we can learn from the success of Skype on mobile app stores. Ajit says that appstores are acting in a very disruptive way – forcing operators to allow new types of services such as VoIP onto their networks.
Another BIG HITTER in the mobile world is Chetan Sharma and he brings a write-up, including video of a new event – Mobile Breakfasts. The next event is on June 18th focused around mobile startups.
The always excellent mobithinking crew have a post on Mobile social networking statistics – it seems that social networking is EVEN BIGGER on mobile than on the PC – with services like twitter and facebook totally dominating mobile internet usage.
The Wireless Industry Partnerships (WIP) crew are kicking up a storm right now and their post over at WIP Connector introduces the Intel Atom Developer Program and the amazing fact that there will be 139m notebook computers out there by 2012.
Still THE BEST blog covering mobile internet, Dennis over at Wap Review has a post reviewing Opera mini 5 on Android – as usual this is a great post breaking down how the new browser interfaces with new technologies like HTML 5 and multi-touch. It seems that Opera Mini is struggling a bit on the new generation of devices compared to on feature phones and old style Symbian handsets where the native browser is so bad it is easy to improve on it.
Meanwhile, Tsahi from Radvision is talking ipads and specifically – “Why the ipad wont have a front facing Camera” – a great analysis that cuts through the mac rumour mill with the real facts – great post.
Antoine J Wright brings a thought-provoking and original look at sustainability in mobile and the longevity of mobile handsets.
A late entry from Mobile Guru Tomi Ahohen – a really great post that bursts the bubble of the location services hype a la Foursquare et al and argues for services based on simple technologies such as SMS, basic mobile internet – cracking post.
That’s it for this week – next months Carnival hosting appears to be free – so if you have written a piece included in this carnival maybe you’d like to volunteer for it? Otherwise it may be over at the excellent msearchgroove where PeggyAnne the Queen of the Carnival blogs.
