You know that warm, cosy feeling you have on a Sunday night when you’ve had your dinner, the kids are in bed, and you’ve just sat down to watch some TV? And then you realise you’ve forgotten this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists?
So, like the plot of the bad Steven Seagal movie I’m watching, this has been hastily-written. But don’t let my rush to write this article stop you from reading this week’s excellent submissions at leisure.
The latest Carnival is now available at mobilestance.com. Do I need to say that there is some excellent reading? Take that as a given for the Carnival.
A couple of iPhone-related highlights though:
Enjoy!
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is yet again chock full of excellent writing, plus another contribution from All About iPhone. There are stats galore, especially relating to mobile data usage from Tomi Ahohen and Chetan Sharma.
But the post of the week, and also my favourite read, was from Andrew Grill of London Calling. He reports on his “Eureka moment” with Twitter + mobile + search. There is a lot going on in the mobile location services space at the moment. We’ll also have article up on that topic soon, from someone working on an iPhone location app.
Read the Carnival at Ubiquitous Thoughts.
This week the Carnival is hosted at Golden Swamp. There was a last-minute call for articles, and the Mobilists have responded with some quality articles. There’s plenty regarding Mobile World Congress, but I particularly enjoyed Russell Buckley’s vision of a mobile-centric future at MobHappy.
Read the Carnival here: http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/03/02/carnival-of-the-mobilists-163
Welcome to the Winter Carnival! It certainly seems that way, writing from snow-bound Britain. Thanks to all the contributors, and straight on to their posts. Everyone must:
BOW DOWN TO THE GOOGLE
Andrew Grill has an excellent post on Google’s Latitude and its competitors. He points out that, unlike Palringo, Latitude is missing presence. But for how long?
Jamie Wells wonders if the welcome is wearing a little thin on one of our new overlord’s offshoots, in “What’s This… Android on Shaky Ground?“. Just what is Google’s attitude to fragmentation and security on its mobile platform?
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You lucky people – not one, but two posts from Steve have made it into the Carnival this week. The second looks at mobile phone photography – and I have to admit it made me wince a bit. The quality of the photos from the Samsung INNOV8 is superb, and is a huge contrast to the 2MP non-flash effort on the iPhone. When the new revision of the iPhone comes out (around June, probably), I really hope that Apple bump the camera quality and software.
Read this week’s Carnival over at Mobile Broadband Blog. It’s not quite as jam-packed as in the past couple of weeks, but there are some excellent articles. My favourite was from James Parton (Head of O2 Litmus), writing on wipJam blog. He has an interesting comment on music and application stores:
Research has shown that over 90% of digital music catalogues are never downloaded. It’s an extreme example of Prato’s law. Are App stores already following the same path?
Read the full post for his surprising conclusion on the most important API of 2009.
Next week, stay tuned to All About iPhone for your Carnival fix!
There’s another cracking Carnival this week at VoIP Survivor. Apart from another contribution from Steve, my personal favourite was Jonathan Greene wondering if Palm’s Synergy is a game changer. He observes that:
Sync is just too damn hard and even when it works well across systems you typically end of up data that’s intermingled poorly.
Absolutely. I’ve had some utter balls-ups trying to sync stuff before, not aided by prompts such as “Are you ready to accept changes?”, without any of those changes being identified. And I’ve certainly found it as well with my iPhone. Syncing to iTunes works like a charm, but things got a bit screwy when I allowed iTunes to sync to Gmail as well.
The commenters to Jonathan’s post expand on the difference between sync and aggregated view. Perhaps phones should stop trying to sync, run an embedded web server instead, and interact with them through a browser? Much simpler.
This and other excellent articles are available at: http://blog.radvision.com/voipsurvivor/2009/01/26/the-carnival-is-back-in-town-carnival-of-the-mobilists-158/
A thoroughly excellent Carnival is available this week over at mjelly, including Steve’s post on the fullness of his iPhone.
There are two stand-out articles for me:
Dean Bubley thinks that the mobile industry is being insufficiently pessimistic about 2009; and,
Tomi Ahohen has a masterful essay on Nokia phones as incredible convergence devices.
Read the Carnival here: http://blog.mjelly.com/2009/01/carnival-of-the-mobilists-157.html
The first Carnival of the new year takes us to the realm of Helen the technokitten, and it’s a bumper edition. There’s a contribution from AAi, reviews of the past year (lots of iPhone mentions), and predictions for 2009.
The posts of the week are two of those predictions, from Chetan Sharma and Rudy De Waele. Both are well worth digesting. I’ll have my own “what’s coming in 2009″ post up later this week – it’s been in draft for a couple of weeks, but what with all the Xmas cheer… 
Head on over to Carnival at the link below to read all the posts:
http://technokitten.blogspot.com/2009/01/carnival-of-mobilists-155.html
Ahem. Steve Litchfield here. Yes, me, of 3-Lib and The Phones Show and All About Symbian notoriety. Matt Radford has been called away and it seems I’m next in line of succession here at All About iPhone to assemble this week’s best writing in mobile. My pleasure.
I wanted to emphasise a few things about All About iPhone before we get started though. Firstly, it’s not an iPhone news site – the plethora of cut and paste news sites around the world is already apparent. Here at All About iPhone, Matt, James and I provide (hopefully) thought-provoking insights, reviews and critiques, all relevant to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s all original content – think of it as your Friday morning coffee break read (there are usually 2 or 3 new articles each week). And please consider adding it to your RSS feeds or even linking in from your blog.
