Session
Mobile Devices: Past, Present, and Future
Juergen Fey, Mobile Prototype Unit Nuremberg, Ericsson GmbH
Date: Thursday, March 01
Time: 4:00pm
- 4:15pm
Location: Salon ABCDE
Mobile devices, notably cell phones, smartphones, and the like, have come a long way already. Not a straight line but a leapfrogging the last generation to evolve as a new breed. To the normal end user, the mighty paying customer, this market might appear highly dynamic but we're talking about a sometimes very conservative bunch of players. Operators, vendors, content owners, the kids (in the center of consumer gravity) talk about the same thing but it ain't the same thing for sure.
This session explains some key facts about this billion-devices-a-year market and shows some examples of current and future trends -- some of them directly from the labs. We're talking about SIP; IMS; VoIP; video, TV, location; text input; user interfaces; WLAN; platforms; and the weakest link of cause. What might it be?