S60 Open to new features

Last week I took part to very interesting conference in London called Telco 2.0. Wasn’t sponsored by Nokia. Our dear competitor Motorola had taken that role. Good choice. It truly was a different telco event. Lot’s of interactivity, because of Crystal interactive’s equipment. Speakers were mostly good or even excellent and presentation didn’t have too much marketing BS or own product information.

James Enck from Daiwa has done good work earlier and compressed 2 days to few pages. My favourite speaker came from operator side. Norman Lewis from Orange was incredible. Totally getting thinking to new level. He was talking obout young consumers and their way of using technology and sociological and behavioral aspects. Think about user created content, yes fine we have integrated cameras on mobile and Flickr client but that’s quite nothing. Vision has to be enabling user created content but also user created applications. We are so far away from this with Symbian, Java and Flash Lite. Nice developments are in the pipeline but they tackle more to the developer environment, which is needed indeed, but so much more is needed in few years.

Things really will get interesting with Wi-Fi. Mostly people use it at home or office but public Wi-Fi is real pain in general. Buying air time to hot spots is complicated and pricing is hefty. Boingo is changing this. You pay monthly fee and you get access to 55000 hot spots. Price is 22$ in US now and they are entering to Europe. Expect to see even below 10€ monthly fees and more hot spots. Welcome VoIP, welcome smaller world.

Quite many inspiring speeches and ideas which I will utilize later on. Sling Media deserves some attention, but now I have to run.

The next Telco 2.0 even is end of March. Keep tuned to Telco 2.0 blog.