Mobile Progress - Sep 2007

I attended a Mobile Monday event at Baze in Clarke Quay today, organised by the Singapore chapter and hosted by Forum Nokia.

It's been almost 18 months hiatus from mobile events for me, but apparently it was an 18 month hiatus for the Mobile Monday organisers too. (So I did not miss much).

But worse, it was evident from the event there was a distinct lack of new ideas and direction in the mobile industry. And Forum Nokia was just replaying a broken record about supporting developers (of course for the Nokia platforms.. and therein lies the crux of the problem of the mobile industry - lack of a universal operating system)

There was also a sense that our mobile attendees are looking rather enviously across the greener grass plain at our Web 2.0 counterparts, Google, Facebook and the like. Terms like social networking was banded about like the mobile industry invented them.

Where has the creativity gone? Time for a mobile field trip to Korea again to discover Mobile 2.0!