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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Check the picture below I took at he airport exit
