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S60 Touch UI @ Forum Nokia Mobile Application Summit 2.0

By Terence Ang - 13 Nov 2007

Forum Nokia and Mobile Web 2.0

Forum Nokia and Mobile Web 2.0

In Day 1 of the conference, the Forum Nokia team held a conference inviting the media to learn a little more on how developers and Forum Nokia are working hand-in-hand to make a nudge into new territories like Mobile Web 2.0 and so on.

Shankar Meembat, Regional Director for Forum Nokia APAC, Nokia, explained that in order for us to move from the current Mobile Web 1.5 to Mobile Web 2.0, there has to be three elements:

  • Seamless connection to the community
  • User-defined access to content
  • Contribution and collaboration

Meembat felt that current Mobile Web 1.5 is missing several elements, such as two-way connections to the community, seamless connection regardless of carrier, flat-rate data plans (this one's a biggie) and an abundance of mobile-friendly Web sites. He classified current Mobile Web 1.5 applications to two types: Basic and Sophisticated.
 

 Viresh Prashar, Director for Business Development from Sling Media, shows how easy it is to watch/control your live or recorded TV from a compatible mobile phone on a Slingbox media center device. The Slingbox family comes in three versions: Pro, Solo and AV.

For Basic, he cited Cingular, Sprint and Verizon telecom service providers, which allowed users to post on Facebook pages via SMS. Cingular users are able to edit, view and add friends on MySpace too, at US$2.99 a month in addition to data charges. Vodafone’s partnership with YouTube is another example.

For Sophisticated, UK's 3 has a feature called SeeMe TV, which allows users to create videos and make cash for clips. For every clip download, the user gets paid money. He revealed that so far, 3 gets about 12 million downloads within a year and budding directors have earned over 250,000 pounds as of September 2006. In early 2007, Singapore's M1 launched something called MeTV. For every clip that gets downloaded, the producer is paid US$0.03.

Other forms of Mobile Web features currently making their rounds include a mobile social network called Zyb by a Danish startup, Finnish-created Jaiku (recently acquired by Google) and vertical segments from the likes of fring, locr, ComVu, social FM, twango, MOSH and mystrands.

 One of the developer showcases at the conference (seen here with his PR and Marketing collegue Nicole is CEO Malte Schloen) included locr (www.locr.com) which is a geo-tagging and photo-sharing/organizing mobile application. When you use a GPS-enabled mobile handset to shoot a photo, with locr, you can geo-tag the image and it would create geo-reference on the site that you can share with family, friends and users worldwide.

 locr's website.

 

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