Impressions From The Future

It seems that Chennai too is fast catching up w/ Mobile Monday spirit. Long back I have wondered where’s Chennai in the Indian mobile monday map. Varun, is spearheading Chennai chapter and MoMo Chennai is at it’s second edition with Forum Nokia sponsoring the event. This is on Feb 16th - a saturday and Not on a Monday. In several MoMos we had this discussion of why not have a Mobile Monday on other weekdays - this is because though many people aspire to make it to MoMo, most get struck by the busy schedules of Monday. I don’t know whether it is a decision based on the fact above. This is the fifth MoMo in india. Wish MoMo Chennai a great success through several interesting sessions, demos and networking !

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.