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Telecom Asia - Is this the future?


About this event: ITU Telecom Asia 2002 & Youth Forum
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I'm here at Telecom Asia 2002, where Nick and I are speaking at the Youth Forum. I spoke Monday, so I'm just in the room here, relaxing... when my iPaq beeps with a new SMS message (I got a phone module for it). "Come quickly to the Hutchenson telecom booth in Hall 1! The first three roamers that show this message get a free nokia/ericsson handset!"

Did I bother with this silly scheme? Of course! I discreetly raced from the room, realizing that I had already lost precious seconds on my lead, running past and then taking the elevator, and running into the hall one floor below... first Hutchenson booth is the wrong one...found the second one... found the people.... and I'm number 4. Oh well. Maybe tommorow they tell me. But I got a little vinyl Orange bag as a runner-up prize. Is this the future of mobile communications? :)

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Susheela Susheela
December 4, 2002 | 4:41 PM
the discreetness cost you i bet!
i think you should run from the room screaming next time and so you will have frightened the other people and they will be too shocked to run themselves. :P Kebie Nigel Kehler
December 5, 2002 | 1:44 AM
Our school used to have all these ads from some marketing company that was trying to recruit students "ADVERTISEMENTS ON YOUR CELL PHONE IN THE BATHROOM?" or something of the sort.

I used to think trade show free stuff was the best, then I realized I didn't really like any of the shirts, and carrying about 10 copies of different technology magazines can be bad for the back.

Is it a show on the new technologies that are coming out? I am very disappointed with the North American role out of new cell phone technologies.

I am verity interested in developing entertainment applications ie games and so on for cell phones, and maybe some neat other services. The idea with technologies like brew (which are basically a copy of the i-mode idea) are a start. But post-mortems from game developers say it is very hard to develop with.

I would like a more open form of developing and supplying games, however having it closed I can see has the advantages of quality assurance. But I do see a big opening (or an opening that is supposed to be there) for small teams of 2-3 developers making small cell phone games, and getting tens of thousands of $3 monthly subscribers (or more).

The average video game takes 1-2 years and $2-5million dollars to make, while a cell phone game can take 2-3months and ship. Also since the games are kind of archaic but do have internet capabilities, you can kind of take spin offs of old gameboy/nes games with these new multiplayer capabilities (or add-ons), or even from the old web/cgi scripted games.


Also Ipaq’s are too expensive :P $600 for a personal organizer/gameboy.

Anyways give me an update on any new crazy stuff that is coming out. josie_h j
December 10, 2002 | 6:58 AM UR sooooo funny ;-)
Love the update

Have fun
J
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