A crystal-ball eye on Mobile-Innovation evolution!
Sunday, August 30, 2009 8:26:47 PM
By Incorporating a market and customer driving refurbished applications, Mobile Industry Innovators will skim all huge potential of Mobile-Technology.
Mobile Advertising also a heaven for retailers, but without true accessibility, mobile browser ergonomics and ease of use; this weren't tangible without innovative products such as OPERA Mobile browser. It is considered earth's fastest browser that allows a true web experience by typing less, scrolling less and browsing more via “Pan& Zoom” unique feature.
Mobile landing pages are now more accessible as more retailers have dedicated mobile sites, and .mobi domains success and the spread of website auto Mobilizers which converts any site to mobile version. Some web-mail clients such as Gmail allows auto-mobilizing for any link inside reader's email when they access it from mobile.
Smart phones innovation and competition has exploded with a wide range of brands following Symbian and iPhone with Android's strong penetration numbers, Windows Mobile handsets, Palm and patented "push mail" Blackberry success. They all became popular as Internet is reaching into the phone, bigger handsets LCDs and a wide array of engaging on-the-go applications.
Mobile technologies are emerging towards building a mobile marketing ecosystem. MMS spread will internationalize the SMS as MMS allows sending rich content to other mobiles or email addresses allowing interactivity without the need of a specialized SMS gateway in each country. QR (Quick Response) bar-codes will make off-line media click-able. Mobile E-Payment solutions are becoming safer and more accessible. Blue-tooth Marketing campaigns will also have a block on the map with more companies adopting it in 2009. Twitter, Facebook, MySpace also goes mobile while micro-blogging (Twitter) stands as the most preferred social marketing tool. GPS and location based mobile applications will add another dimension to Mobile world.
There are around 4 billion handsets in use around the world and Mobile Industry is no longer a ring-tones, games or mobile-TV industry, but it is the convergence of entertainment and commerce.











Gyrobo # Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:15:55 AM
Changing WomanChanging_woman # Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:08:54 AM
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Bencharqui Hakamrowley8 # Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:26:50 AM
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Greg Smithgregsmithsays # Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:20:08 AM
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Omar AloyounOmaroyoun # Saturday, August 29, 2009 3:27:52 AM
Originally posted by Gyrobo:
You are right #Gyrobo about the .mobi as a try to separate desktop & mobile web which should be left to the browser's intelligence but what I have meant is the success of mobile based webs, that is visualized in .mobi top level domain
Omar AloyounOmaroyoun # Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:20:30 AM
Thanks I have voted for you too
Nice article!
#rowley8 Thanks , got my vote!
#prkumarsharma Thanks, I have read you article. Nice one. Got my vote!
Omar AloyounOmaroyoun # Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:27:46 AM
Omar AloyounOmaroyoun # Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:42:06 AM
Originally posted by gregsmithsays:
Amazing Idea such as the e-ticket on mobiles. I liked it as an idea that facilitates e-receipts for the purpose of personal accounting, ..etc
Gyrobo # Saturday, August 29, 2009 6:13:30 PM
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Winterwinterdawn # Monday, August 31, 2009 4:44:30 AM
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Dark FurieFurie # Monday, August 31, 2009 10:39:16 AM
QR codes are a thing of the past, although they do have a large penetration in Asia. The countries that are only just adopting them have better ways available now. Having said that, the mess that capacitive screens get into with general typing may bring this way of communicating links back into popular use.
MMS was old news even when it first came out nine years ago. The way the networks charge for it, the limits they impose upon it and the capabilities of the phones that could use it even then, meant that e-mail was a more attractive proposition back then and it's become more true as time has gone on. Global mobile e-mail has finally reached the point that Japan's i-mode system had before WAP was even introduced elsewhere.
A lot of the things you mention as being new this year are actually a few years old already.
Gyrobo # Monday, August 31, 2009 1:50:15 PM
Originally posted by Furie:
It seems newer if you're on a cosmological time scale.Dark FurieFurie # Monday, August 31, 2009 2:01:25 PM
Gyrobo # Monday, August 31, 2009 3:56:26 PM
Dark FurieFurie # Monday, August 31, 2009 7:44:15 PM
Gyrobo # Monday, August 31, 2009 9:21:38 PM
CRAZY.
Omar AloyounOmaroyoun # Tuesday, September 1, 2009 9:36:14 AM
Originally posted by Furie:
Thank you so much for your careful investigation of my prediction-map for the mobile industry, but let me clarify these points: - My point of view was from the eye of a marketer and from the true-utilization evolution of mobile-technologies; which means that the evolution of ideas may help leverage an older technology to find a need & fill it nowadays, by improving a recent technology or by integrating it with a new platform..etc - You are right about bluetooth marketing but you will hear soon some developments with regards to integrating a patent that will make this kind of marketing a true one, breaking all barriers you have mentioned. - QR-codes and the newer versions of barcodes, such as Microsoft's one (Color Code) will have a great impact on marketing as they will convert off-line media to a click-able media. I have did an on-depth research about the utilization of QR in marketing & will share many info with OPERA community soon. - MMS will solve a big problem of expensive dedicated SMS gateways, and I am talking here from the seat of marketers and not the consumers, as this will not be an economy solution for consumers. Engaging-applications and interactivity will be more mature with more MMS campaigns.Dark FurieFurie # Tuesday, September 1, 2009 2:17:57 PM
True, MMS does make sense currently from a marketing point of view but more technology needs to be introduced on a global level before we can get excited about it. Very few countries have mobile payment solutions for shops or mobile coupon systems and, until these are implemented, all the consumer gets is a pretty advert with nothing in it for them at all. From the consumer standpoint it ranges from being a small reminder of something to being bloody annoying. One of the reasons I predict that a spam filter will make it's way into mobile messaging solutions within the next generation.
The advent of the third generation Bluetooth specification brings wi-fi speeds with it. It is possible that these increased speeds (along with the battery evolutions I've recently detailed) will allow small movies and other media to be intelligently sent from stores you're passing, but it's down to the stores to get this right. The same thing you see on TV isn't going to wow anyone. We need a welcome explanatory message, some flashy media piece to catch the eye and something in it for us (perhaps a coupon to use in the store, perhaps a track from the album being advertised, or the trailer of a movie).
Moses Bernadsdrubone # Thursday, September 3, 2009 7:03:53 AM
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