Mobile internet, finally a light at the end of the tunnel?
The story is an old and a well known one.
The number of announcements about the arrival of the mobile internet and all its derivatives (marketing, services …) have occurred a numerous of time already.
The networks (Wap, GPRS, 3G, Wifi, WiMax) have been considered as a leverage and … nothing happened because no real adapted contents nor services were delivered beside (And oftently an excessive pricing, being a huge barrier for users).
Each device type generation have also been considered as a potential factor to start the mobile internet wave: gsm, gsm with colour screens, with wifi, pda connectable to any network… and again nothing sufficient to see a start.
So what?
As told, contents and services (and usability)are certainly the key. But what contents and what services? Due to the number of devices and then screen resolutions available on the market, it is very difficult for a content or service provider to test applications and mobile content areas properly.
This could be history soon with the new CS3 release from Adobe; wich is including Adobe Device Central a development framework with integrated emulators of mobile device with integrated knowledge base about the huge amount of different devices available.
Another software giant announcing a move on the mobile internet’s field is Microsoft with its project Deepfish: a mobile device browser.
These announcements are clearly not a revolution, but strong signals from the industry at two capital levels: User experience and application design tools for improved RMA (Rich Mobile Application).
Beside that, pure mobile based applications will certainly shortly explose, services as described by Forbes, some of them are already there in some places like mobile paiments, other are still studied in labs.
So Mobile internet is closer than never, we all know it will arrive soon, the only question is when?
80 comments April 10th, 2007
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