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This section of Mobinomy.com provides resources for mobile & cell phone research & the future of the mobile economy. Mobinomy is an online resource for the mobile economy.

Keywords for this page: Mobile research, mobile phones future, cellphone inventions, new in mobile phone, trends in cellular phones, future of mobile communications, mCommerce / m-commerce, mBanking / m-banking, Mobile entertainment (Mobile Music, Mobile TV..)

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The Future of Mobile – Innovations, Inventions & Trends – Web Resources

Mobile Innovations Forum – from BluePulse
All about Mobile Life
Wireless Keyboards for PDAs and Smartphones
Mobile Business & Revenue Models
Helping Mobilise the Internet – Interview with Jan Michael Hes
Emerging Market Handset Programme – GSM Association
Mobiliser.org – Intelligence for Wireless Executives
Skiing Toward the Future of Mobile Services – Innovations Report
The future of mobiles phones is hard to predict, but Mobile Shop is willing to give it a try
Future of Mobile – from BBC News
Future Mobile Phones will Lip-read – an old (2002) report from BBC
Kenya & the Future of Mobile Phones – from Boing Boing
Showcase for Future of Mobile – from BBC, UK (2004 article)
The Future of Mobiles – Our Cellphone Future – Japan’s handsets are already the world’s most advanced. Now they are about to get even better, says this Newsweek article (Oct 2006)
Qualcomm Confident of Bright Future for Mobiles – ZDNet UK Article – July 2006
What’s Next? Cellphone Games Take A Big Leap Forward into 3-D – June 2004 New York Times article
The 20-Year Future of Mobile Telecoms – Tomi Ahonen, 2005 blog article
What will be the best selling mobile phones of 2015 look and feel like? An effort from an art & design school in London – from CNET Australia
The Future of Mobile Technology – Learning on the Run – from Future Lab, UK (2004 article)
Manga Publishers See Mobiles as the Future – Moco.News, Sep 2005 article
Future Mobiles to Get Chip Boost – Processors that will power future mobile phones – BBC article, Oct 2005
Mobiles the Web of Future – India Times Sep 2006 article
McAfee Sees Future in Applications for Mobiles – on Software Journal Blog, Aug 2005
New Microchip Design Could be Key to Expanding Mobile Phone Memory – from Phys Org
Archive for Open Mobile Economy Category – from Mobiliser blog
Who’s Shaping the Mobile Future? – from Datamation / Earthweb (Sep 2006)
Frequency Economy – New Convergence – by Kjell Engstrom, Swedish Radio (PDF) – Apr 2004
Sociology of the Mobile Phone – Online Texts Links – from Socio.ch
Mobile Services for a Networked Economy – Research Paper Presentation – Sep 2005 (PDF)
Navman's Mobile Travel Assist S60 navigation system for Nokia N series phones – Guardian UK article, Aug 2006
IBC 2006 Mobile Zone – Mobile Innovations Exhibition web page
User-led Innovations in Mobile Use in Sub-Saharan Africa – Jonathan Donner (PDF)
Mobile Imaging Technology
Mobile TV
Mobile Commerce – M-commerce – Payments News Articles Archive @ Payments News – lots of interesting archived links
Mobile Payments World – Trends in Mobile & Contactless Payments Web Resources
PayPal Adding Mobile Payments to Service – ars technical March 2006 news item
Mobile TV Forums & Updates @ Nokia
Finnish Mobile TV Community
Mobile TV Coming of Age – BBC 2004 article
Tight Squeeze for Mobile TV – C/NET News.com Oct 2005 news item
Mobile TV A Fuzzy Picture – Mobile TV is coming, but how the market will develop is unclear, says the Jan 2006 news article from The Economist
TV Phones Prep for Prime Time – Dec 2004 Business Week article
But Does Anyone Want Mobile TV? – from The Future Archives, Aug 2004 Opinion Item
Mobile TV Metrics – from Daily Wireless – Sep 2006 Item
FAQ: The Low-down on Mobile TV – ZDNet – Oct 2005 article
Another Standard for Mobile TV Emerges – from The Inquirer, Jan 2006
Whither M-Commerce – from Venture Blog, March 2004 Article
Make Way for MCommerce – Wired News, Feb 2006
Service Discovery in the Future of Mobile Commerce – Dipanjan Chakraborty, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Statistics for Mobile Commerce – from ePay News
A Framework for M-commerce & Wireless Commerce Solutions – A VeriSign Nov 2005 White Paper (PDF)
Planning for a Handheld Mobile Future – from Blog Drivers Waltz
A Vision of Mobile Future – from Tomi Ahonen
Google Targets Mobile Future – from Future Lab
A Sneak Peek into the Mobile Future – from Online Media Daily
Ambient Light Makes Mobile Display Tech iMoD – from CNET| News.com – Oct 2006
Mobile Gaming
Mobile Blogging

The Next Gold Mine – MoBlogs – from GigaOm, July 2005

Shaping the Future of Mobile Information Society – from ITU
Mobile User Interface & Interaction Design Resources – from Small Surfaces
Mobile service providers see technology enhancements enabling new services and generating new revenue, says this May 2006 article from America’s Network
Google Targets Mobile Future – BBC News, Jun 2006 news item
The Future of Mobile Technology – Findings from a 2004 European Delphi study (PDF)
Future Mobile Technology Struggles to Provide Global Roaming, says this Sep 2006 article from Silicon Valley
Future Perfect Mobile TV – Personal Experiences - In September 2005 a team of researchers from Nokia worked with students and a professor from Yonsei University's HCI Lab to conduct a field study in Seoul, South Korea to explore actual usage of TU Media's (then) recently launched broadcast Mobile TV service. This paper outlines their findings.
Predictions for the Future of Mobile/Wireless Computing – predictions made in Dec 2002 @ Computer World
Paul Jacob’s (CEO of Qualcomm) prediction about the future features in cell phones: (written in Oct 2006, source: CNN)

Live TV Channels: Access to multiple live TV broadcasts on their phones, eventually enabling communities to experience news and entertainment on mobiles.
Personal Identification: Sensors will read biometric data - a thumbprint, say - to grant access to files stored in networks.
Health Support: Tiny sensors will be able to monitor heart rate, which your cellphone can then automatically send wirelessly to your doctor.
Tagging: Wireless phones could become the ultimate social networking tool, using global-positioning technology and mapping databases to let you "tag" a favorite spot so that if your friends walk or drive by, their phones alert them that they're passing a favourite spot!
Media Center: Utilising the camera facilities in your phone and marrying it with Wi Fi, you could snap pictures and shoot videos and simultaneously transmit it for your family members to see on their TV! In essence, each individual could become a mini media company

Miniaturisation
WIMAX to set the pace for wireless revolution? – The technology would reduce the cost of taking broadband to new places and could have an access range of up to 48 kilometers.
In India, there are serious plans to provide telecommunications to villages using wireless methods. The percentage penetration of telephony to Indian villages is still very low, and hence the new wireless technologies could leapfrog the legacy telephone communications technologies.
Motorola Adopts Linux for Future Mobile Phones – Motorola has embarked upon a strategy to use Linux in future smartphones. This Special Report tracks announcements related to Motorola's embedded Linux smartphone. Linux Devices, Jan 2006
The Phone of the Future – Economist, Nov 2006
Japan’s Mobile Phone Super-Urban Intelligent Cards (Suica) are Super-Future Cool – Label Networks
Answers from members to the Question of the Week – The Future of Mobile @ Gamasutra, Oct 2005
Phones of the future? - New services and markets beckon in a world beyond voice - The mobile market has certainly spawned an astonishing range of applications and uses. Mobile phones can read barcodes and check on supermarket produce. They can provide fortune-telling services. They have even been used to create high school yearbooks. Read more from this report from NTT DoCoMo
The Future of Mobile Java - An Interview with Nokia's Asko Komsi - by Frank Sommers, August, 2006 - The new Mobile Service Architecture (MSA) specifications (JSRs 248 and 249) define the next-generation Java platform for mobile handsets. In this interview with Artima, MSA spec lead Asko Komsi talks about the future of mobile Java, and how the MSA standard will help make it easier to develop for mobile handsets.
Augmented Reality-based User Interface for Mobile Applications & Services - Traditional design of user interfaces for mobile phones is limited to a small interaction that provides only the necessary means to place phone calls or to write short messages. This research looks into how to improve the user interface of future mobile devices by using a more human-centred design. One possible solution is to combine the Augmented Reality technique with image recognition in such a way that it will allow the user to access a "virtualized interface". Read more from the research paper here (PDF)
A Mobile User Interface for Threading, Marking, and Previewing Email - Collaborative User Experience Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - Email has become a vital center for managing work, and has a growing role on mobile devices. However, the challenge of creating user interfaces to support the complex ways people manage their email are exacerbated by the limitations of mobile devices. This research paper addresses this challenge by enhancing a PDA’s inbox with user interface tools for viewing and navigating threaded email discussions, marking messages with gestural pop-up menus, and previewing content with one-line “ticker-tape” displays. Read more from the research paper here (PDF)
The Mobile Future: an Interview with Satheesh Subramanian - the past, present and future of mobile computing – from Intel
The seven top mobile and wireless trends for 2007 - More mobility, more media, more convergence - Dec 2006, Computer World
Channel Forecast: The biggest mobile networking trends of 2007 - Craig J. Mathias - Networking Channel @ Tech Target
Mobile Commerce (mCommerce) & Mobile Financial Services

The Future of Mobile Commerce, Challenges & Lessons – (PDF) - This research aims to investigate future mobile commerce (m-commerce) based on case studies in Japan, China, and Hong Kong. The results of study conclude some of major impediments for mobile commerce. Lessons on WAP service from Japan, China, and Hong Kong will be applied for Thailand’s mobile commerce on WAP service delivery, mobile handset, content and application, payment method. (2002)
Future Trends in Mobile Commerce: Service Offerings, Technological Advances and Security Challenges (PDF)
Near Future of Mobile Commerce – Handset is Cash Register – from E-commerce Times (Apr 2005)
Will i-Mode Save Mobile Banking in Western Europe? – A 2003 Report Published by Celent (Mobile banking is also denoted by mBanking or m-Banking )
Future of Mobile Banking – Outlook 2007-2013 United Kingdom - It highlights the trends and the factors responsible for the adoption of Mobile Banking as well as global issues impacting it's growth in the underlining market. From Market Research
Korea Sets Trends in Global Mobile Banking - The subscriber base of Koreans using mobile banking services has tripled in the past 15 months, says this May 2004 article from The Korea Times
Mobile Broking (mBroking or m-Broking), also called Mobile Brokerage Services
First Direct to trial mobile video banking - The UK's first direct is to provide video access to customer representatives over the mobile phone network in an experimental technology trial with wireless operator 3, says this article from Finextra, Nov 2006. Some features: one-click access to first direct via video or voice, mobile-friendly video and audio podcasts about hot financial topics
Usability Is a Must in Browser-based Mobile Banking – says this Nov 2004 article from Nokia (key words: UI, Banking on the move, Screen size, User Interface, Smart-client applications, easy-to-use navigation, User task flow, Frames, Menus, markup, CSS, Usability tests)
Mobile Payments World Web Site – news, article, vendor updates, analysis
Mobile Banking Systems – Pull vs Push
Mobile Retailing
Some key drivers of mobile commerce:

Communication Technologies
Location Specific Technologies
Bluetooth
Speech Recognition Technology
Personalisation
Synchronization
XML
WML
PKI
SIM Application Toolkit

Mobile Finance Security

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Mobile Security

Mobile Viruses Set to Explode – from ZD Net Australia, Nov 2006
Mobile Commerce Security

WAP gateway
Application level security
Scalable
Securing Wireless Transactions

Encryption Technologies

Symmetric (secret key cryptography)
Asymmetric (public/private key cryptography)

Message Authentication

Fourth General Wireless Communication – Brief FAQ from Euro Technology

Mobile Search

Local mobile search in Japan just got a whole lot more precise. Aided by GPS, compass navigation, and cellular photo technology, Mapion Local Search (developed by Tokyo’s Mapion and San Francisco’s GeoVector Corporation) provides a little deeper level of functionality than your standard mobile search service - See this Feb 2006 Search Engine Journal article for more
Google Targets Mobile Future – June 2006, BBC Tech News
Goobile – blog for news & analysis of mobile search, and mobile content distribution strategies
Mobile Search – The Future of Online Marketing? – from Mobile Active Blog

Mobile Content

The Future & Failure of Mobile Content – from Bright Hand – Oct 2002 article
Mobile SVG – The Graphics Wave of the Future – Ikivo (PDF)

Mobile Browsing

Is Opera Mini the Future of Mobile Browsing? @ WAP Review, Aug 2006
Asynchronous Browsing – The Future of Mobile Computing – May 2003 article @ Mobile Imperative

Envisioning the Mobile Future – from Mobile Devices & Developer Center, Adobe Systems
Old Media’s Mobile Future – Business Week article, Jan 2006
WiMax
Mobile Devices Software Future

Redefining the Future for Mobile - Software Define Radio – Find Articles
The future for Orange could soon be Google in your pocket - David Smith, technology correspondent, December, 2006 - The Observer, UK - Google is on the move. The internet giant has held talks with Orange, the mobile phone operator, about a multi-billion-dollar partnership to create a 'Google phone' which makes it easy to search the web wherever you are.
The cloudy future of mobile Linux - Can it compete with Microsoft and Symbian? – Computer World
Driving towards in-car software - Developing applications to run inside cars is a fascinating and potentially lucrative market for developers. But what systems are actually running under the hood, and what hurdles do you have to overcome to build for them? – Builder AU

Mobiles for Kids

Kids want the real mobile phones these days, not the toy ones. So a Spanish toy make Imaginarium has a real mobile phone for kids. Called Cam 1, it has many features of the real mobile phones and is adapted for use by kids. Lest parents worry whom the kids call, the phone has a facility by which parents can pre-set the numbers that the kids can call on their mobiles.

Mobile Entertainment

Mobile Entertainment Forum
Future Mobile Entertainment Scenarios – from Booz Allen (PDF)
News Corp. : Entertainment Going Mobile, Sept 2006 News Article
Mobile Movies
Mobile Music

ringtone, realtone (clip), realtone (full), ringback tone, music commerce and packet radio
Ethnic mobile music
Mobile music pricing
The success of Chaku Uta – Japan
Take a look at the future of mobile music – Music Guru – an article from Symbian Freak, Feb 2006
Is Mobile the Future of the Music Industry – a research report from 3, UK (PDF)
Portable Music Could be in your Mobile – USA Today, Nov 2006

Mobile Gambling

Mobile Multimedia

3GPP Home – Shaping the Future of Mobile Communication Standards
High interactive multimedia
Impact of speed and bandwidth on mobile multimedia
Trends in Mobile Multimedia and Networks - Minoru Etoh, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories USA, 2003 white paper (PDF)
User Applications of Mobile Multimedia - Petteri Repo, National Consumer Research Centre, Finland (PDF)

Others

Mobile Retailers
Mobile Portals
Mobile Storage
Mobile Standards
Mobile Programming
Mobile Computing
Mobile Investment Banking
Mobile Revenue Models
Mobile Pictures
PhotoBucket Going Mobile – July 2006, GigaOm article
Mobile Video
Mobile Radio
Electronic Purse / Wallet
Identity Management
Mobile intranet/extranet
Battery Life
Storage
Device Screen
Bandwidth Constraints
CPU Constraints
Biometrics in mobile phones
803.11b wireless standard
QWERTY keyboards on mobile phones
Thin mobile applications married to web services
Broadband Interworking Architecture for Future Mobile Systems
A GPRS/Wi-Fi combo card for whatever you want to plug it into and software that roams seamlessly across both networks?
Online "presence detection" -- the ability to know when someone you want to communicate with is immediately available along with instant messaging
"Push messaging" technologies to deliver relevant information to a user's device, as well as making it fast and easy to launch "pull" applications such as a mobile browser to act on that information
Web services on small devices such as mobiles will become increasingly important for giving the sales force and other workers access to corporate information behind the firewall
In-car telematics that include GPS, data storage, docking for multiple types of handheld devices
Future generation mobile terminals - Future generation mobile terminals will start to incorporate ubiquitous network functionality, by efficiently dealing with a multitude of communication modes and various multimedia applications, says this PhysOrg article - Jan 2005
Use of mobile computing in health care

Implanted wireless devices

Mobile access to desktop applications
Merging/convergence of mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs
Integration of mobile devices with enterprise applications

Typical applications will include homeland defense sensors, monitoring flow and pressure of petroleum production, meter readings, and field communications

Mobile Transportation Support

Intelligent Traffic Guidance

Mobile Medicine

Emergency Electrocardiogram (ECG) Transmission System

Tidbits

According to NTT DoCoMo, Inc. President Masao Nakamura, mobile phones have passed through eras in which they served as communications infrastructure (in the form of voice and e-mail) and as IT infrastructure (offering the added value of information services) and have now entered a third stage in which ways are being found to make them useful in people's daily lives. Nakamura posits that the biggest idea for the future of mobile phones revolves around moving images. If full-fledged terrestrial digital broadcasting begins, he says, mobile phones will gain the ability to receive television signals.
Watch phones
Other research areas: Mobile screen user interfaces, authentication using mobile phones, mobile & cell phone security, short voice message service, mobile payments
Cell Phone Users Have Mixed Feelings on Future Features - Cell phone users have mixed feelings about predicted new handset features, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com), in a April 2005 report. According to the survey by the firm, Wi-Fi- and Skype-enabled handsets, voice activation for text input, and mapping and traffic routing features resonate well. However, few respondents expressed interest in wireless phones that could be used as a wallet for purchases, or for watching TV programs:

42% of the respondents were very or extremely interested in voice activation for their wireless phones.
More than 4 in 10 were very or extremely interested in buying a wireless phone with built-in Wi-Fi for voice and data.
Just 12% had an interest in buying a wireless phone capable of receiving TV broadcasts.

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