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Predictiong the Mobile Phone Landscape for 2008

Posted on January 22, 2008
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Ive just posted a summary of all the predictions made on Mobile Messaging 2.0, a collaborative blog from Corante on the future of mobile messaging:

Since the start of the year, the team at Mobile Messaging 2.0 has been dropping in their predictions for the year ahead in the mobile smart phone world. And while everyone has zeroed in on their own specialties, it’s interesting to see the common threads that have popped up again and again in our minds.

If you want the quick one liner takeaway from all our predictions, here it is. Follow… The… Money…

Nobody’s cracked mobile search yet, not even Google. As they say, past performance is not a guide to future earnings.

The underlying predictions though are simple. More money coming into the ecosystem, with a combination of even more users, advertising spend, and the idea of mobile payments, probably driven by Europe and Asia. But in terms of the global markets, the USA will make some big leaps to get much closer to the other major territories, both in terms of handsets but in contracts and network services.

You can read the full article here.

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Think of the small screen as a new canvas : NevilleHobson.com on February 12th, 2008 21:39

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