Mobile Connectivity has been redefined. Long gone are the days when the only novelty of the mobile phone was being able to talk or message while on the go. Today mobile telecommunications are offering an integrated lifestyle combining work and play, social and professional in ways never experienced by any generation ever before. What are such examples of convergence that you are experiencing in your part of the world? How is the use of mobile phones being redefined?

Picture this example - A typical day in a converged world! Checking emails without a laptop, PC or an internet café. Making gift buying decisions on the go by taking pictures from the mobile phone camera and sharing them as MMS messages instantly. Watching streaming videos on YouTube or better yet, watching Live TV over DVB-h. Capturing something unusual instantly and sharing it with the world using flickr on the mobile phone, geotagging them with GPS coordinates for added perspective. Meeting new people through Bluedating whereby a Bluetooth enabled network (Scatternet) matches and connects people in the vicinity based on preset preferences. Downloading RSS feeds onto your mobile and catching up with the latest on the web from hot new music, to stock market updates, to favorite blogs. Instantly micro-blogging and updating your boss, your friends or family on whatever you are doing now using Twitter or Facebook, from being stuck in a traffic jam to making a stop for coffee, updates can be instant and continuous. Traveling to new places and navigating through voice assisted GPS on the go be in a car or on foot. Sitting on a beach apparently alone but connected through fring IMing away or better yet playing a multiplayer game like “Call of the Pharaoh” with a bunch of friends. Downloading and listening to music as you soon as you hear about it on FM using the built-in mobile phone radio. Tracking miles walked or run using an in-built Pedometer. Using Location Based Services to locate ATM’s or restaurants or simply keeping a track of friends. If that is not enough using services like EDY (Euro, Dollar and Yen) to make transactions at select stores, activating vending machines or buying train tickets, all using a mobile phone replacing the need to carry cash or all kinds of credit/debit cards.

Wait a minute! Are we forgetting something? Using mobile phones to make voice calls of course! Please let me know your thoughts?

Posted on August 22, 2008 2:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)