Nokia, Apple, Google is the ball starting to roll ?

There is an overall perception that 2008 is the year where mobile will take off as a platform widely open to innovation. Until now, the majority of those exposed to mobile application development have been stuck at the entry of so called operators walled garden, and/or are busy fixing fragmentation problems accross a wide variety of not so similar handset … Recent initiatives from Apple and Google (both newcomers in the mobile arena) suggest that what until recently was looking a distant future is about to happen. There will probably be resistances on the way towards “new mobile” (you may call it mobile 2.0), and to understand what may go wrong it helps to review what the much needed reorganization imply.

Mobile Android, it’s the applications stupid …

It is too early to be sure that Google and its followers of the open handset alliance will really deliver every promises that the mobile Android platform imply , however it looks to us that this project take a refreshing approach on what a mobile platform shall deliver.

The emergence of Android could be much more disruptive than say the release of the Iphone, as it can reach everybody phone …