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Re: louisgray.com: The Mobile Revolution Has Arrived

Louis Gray — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:47:12 -0000

Having the iPhone changes the way I use the phone, period. Using it as
a phone is practically secondary at this point. The BlackBerry was
similarly a game-changer, but it was largely an e-mail device. I first
saw BlackBerry in 1999, and wasn't all that impressed. I would hope
I've gotten a little better over the last decade about seeing things
early and finding potential.

Re: louisgray.com: The Mobile Revolution Has Arrived

iankennedy — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:18:00 -0000

Russell's not given up on mobile - he's working at Nokia.

http://www.russellbeattie.c...

Re: louisgray.com: The Mobile Revolution Has Arrived

robdiana — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:50:20 -0000

Greg,

The data on the cloud has definitely helped it a bit as well. Like I said, it was the convergence of various things that really got this moving.

For FriendFeed, there is FFToGo (http://fftogo.com). It is a very nice mobile version of FriendFeed. And its creator, Benjamin Golub, works for FriendFeed now.

Re: louisgray.com: The Mobile Revolution Has Arrived

robdiana — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:47:26 -0000

Michael,

Most people have used a phone as a phone. Maybe they used text messaging too. They did not have a real need for anything better. For people that used a PDA, a Palm or Blackberry were the next step. Those phones were "business only" for a long time. I think the next two generations of phones will be very interesting. Screen resolutions and features will probably be changing frequently.

Re: louisgray.com: The Mobile Revolution Has Arrived

greggannicott — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:40:30 -0000

I think another factor that will help the mobile web is the fact that applications built in the cloud are now improving and becoming more common place.

Now the data and to an extent processing power is held in the cloud, you no longer need a powerful device to use it. A mobile fits in nicely with this.

Personally, the two things that have made me use the mobile web on a daily basis is Opera Mini (makes my other wise slow Curve fast at browsing the web) and Google Reader. I read GR more on my phone than on any other device, yet GR makes up for most of my browsing time.

I look forward to an official Friendfeed mobile version.

Re: louisgray.com: The Mobile Revolution Has Arrived

Michael Fidler — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:42:27 -0000

Well done! I find it puzzling that smart phone vendors have not included higher resolutions in their phones. My old PDA did 640x480. Perhaps that's one of the reasons I would like to see Apple come out with a tablet. 320 x 240 just doesn't cut it for me.
I was at Best Buy today looking for phone's and unfortunately as a Verizon customer, the phones I like are unavailable. They do have the curve, but it doesn't seem to come close to what the bold as to offer. It might be a good place to start though, having never owned a Blackberry!