This is my first time to momo Bangalore edition. I was well before the said time. This is because in every event I go, I clearly felt that I am not able to meet atleast a quarter of the people who drops in. So thought of dividing the networking into two sessions – before and after the event. 
There was a last minute speaker change- and guess who – Sanjay Swamy from mchek. Swamy had a talk on Mobile VAS 2.0 . Oh Yeah- The 2.0 phenomenon has grabbed VAS too. What’s changing this VAS sphere to 2.0 I am not able to get. Swami had an interesting point that programming for low end mobiles including ULHCs can be done if we have higher footprint in the SIM card.
But that all depends on the operator coz he it’s his forte & he is the one going to supply the SIM. Again cementing the walls of ‘walled garden’ ? Also existing SIM cards has to be upgraded for this, plus you cant download or install any apps – only what the operator can give. Developers ???
Btw, hope that the 1 GB SIM card which will be commercially available from Msystems by this year end will do a disruptive change in this sphere.
It’s good and bad that Nokia S60 Tech day coincided with TiE-ISB connect. I decided to go only for the Business track. As everything else clashed with TiE-ISB. Well it was Nokia’s forte and there were much for the promos mostly on technologies like Adobe’s Flashlite and Symbian. ITFinity was invited for a talk on why they choose Symbian. Flashlite is rapidly catching up in the market and developers were encouraged to go for it. As of now Nokia is shipping more devices with Flashlite than any other manufacturer. All the presentations are available for download 
