Archive for February, 2006
3GSM - Good Ideas
If you’ve been working in the mobile industry for some time, you certainly have been facing the issue : Cross testing your software on multiple platforms to validate every single one. JAVA’s write once run everywhere is a bit of a dream in that context… I discovered Mobile Complete that provides a rental model of accessing remotely to many mobile phone and running automated batch tests on them. The idea just rocks ! I got a free 4 hours trial… I already want more!
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3GSM - What’s new?
I spent three days in 3GSM… which of course was not enough to see everything and do some business. Nevertheless, I took some time to analyse today’s hipe and tomorrow’s trends.
Let’s start with DVB-H. This was undoubtely the flagship of this year’s 3GSM. DVB-H was everywhere, either on the chip maker’s side such as Dibcom or Sidsa, or on the manufacturer’s side either with DVB-H enabled phones or DVB-H ready infrastructure at Alcate, Siemens… 
I should also mention the content provider industry getting mad at providing video streams et video channels for the mobile. This year was definetly the Mobile TV’s domination over the congress.
The second “hot” point was definetly UMA. UMA is what will enable your phone or any mobile device to roam seamlessly form WiFi to 3G to HSDPA… No standard solution yet but every manufacturer or solution provider would show that he has UMA.
The third most seen word was HSDPA. HSDPA is 3G but much much faster … you’d get a few MB/s uplink & downlik ! This is still early stage, but remember, Dell announced that by this summer some laptops will come with HSDPA cards embedded.
One of the strong points this year was clearly the maturity of Rich Media solutions. Some big players arose : Streamezzo, Adobe, Picsel, Ikivo, Geniem, and there were almost all there showing some great demos. You should have seen streamezzo’s, it just rocks (I hope to be able to get a web version soon).
The gaming industry is now “stable”, M-Forma was missing but all the others were here presenting their new games along with their content distribution solutions… some even in Rich Media ! InFusio even presented two rich media solutions for mobile distribution of their games.
Finally, there were as usual many new handsets, slimmer or fatte than usual and many bluetooth gizmos such as Morolola’s earphones which really rock ! 
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3GSM-Vlog #6 : Adobe & FlashCast
This presentation explains how easy it is to use a FlashCast with Adobe’s technology… Enjoy the show!
3GSM-Vlog #5 : Adobe Flash Lite & Anina
Here is the presentation of Anina, the geek fashion model that works with Nokia. She presents us how she uses Flash Lite to create mobile applications aroud fashion.
3GSM-Vlog #4 : Picsel
Picsel is the company that provides the imaging solutions on the Samsung D600 enabling it to show on a videoprojector, pdf excel and ppt files. They also have a nice flash for mobile technology… let’s discover it together at 3GSM:
3GSM-Vlog #3 : Mobile SuiCa NTT
Here is a demo of Mobile SuiCa on NTT booth. Mobile SuiCa is the NFC technology that enables you to use your phone as an ID Card.
3GSM-Vlog #2 : Interview d’André Pagnac - Actimagine
André est le fondateur d’Actimagine, une start-up française spécialisée dand la compression/décompression vidéo en limitant au maximum le temps processeur. André nous présente sa société et quelques-uns de ses produits
