Back from 3GSM at Mobitrends

Back from 3GSM

24hrs only to visit 3GSM was a bit ambitious, actually I spent most of my time in meetings and did not have as much time as I would have needed to get a real idea about all the new stuff that was presented. Last year was the year of Mobile TV, this year was time for WiMAX and Mobile WiMAX with many manufacturers presenting their solutions. This was actually one of my personal focuses ;). I was pretty disappointed to see few new services and ideas, a lot of mobile communities, content distribution to mobiles… but nothing really new there. Few innovations on the devices field, new smart designs though, but it sounds like manufacturers are starting to lack imagination. Quite a few new connected convergent devices (wireless frames, UMPCs, Linksys new Kiss-dp1600 player…). I was a bit disappointed though to see that the mood wasn’t very joyful there. I guess it’s the end for that hype that was overpresent on the previous years … maybe there won’t be a mobile bubble after all
I had a great talk though on Cisco’s booth about their vision of the wireless house, and I was pretty reassured to see that we had the same vision on the issues about heterogeneous devices being connected together within a house and sharing services ;).
Convergence of services and divergence of devices is really the major trend on the next years of the wireless market.