Future of Mobile Content

SonyEricsson has its paper on "Mobile Web Initiative Workshop"



Some of the key points from the paper are:

In 2006 we expect most phones to have a mobile Web browser that is able to render almost any Web page on the Internet. WAP is history and, from a technology point of view, the mobile Web has converged with the de facto Internet standards.



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New mobile Web browsers render Web sites designed for PCs in 'smart way' on a mobile phone. This will make mobile browsing more popular. But we do not think this is the final solution to the mobile Web.

It presents two interesting cases for data services for average consumer on the mobile web.

First one is :

Covergence of music with phone (music-phones) and more trend towards personal streaming(Personal radio).

Mobile Photo Services - ability share pictures, albums seamlessly.



The second case if the ability to get information updates via RSS medium.

We believe that RSS has a great potential in mobile phones, as a technology to automatically provide updated content to users - accessing the Web without browsing.

Some of the aspects match with what Wirkle is trying to do. Wirkle strongly believes in wireless as a medium where an avergae user can keep track of his needs weather its normal content or a service.



I believe that the mobile and the PC have different needs in terms of content. With wireless handsets, smart phones and browser technology maturing on phones, surfing on mobile will become a lot easier. But Wireless devices being small handy devices require a medium where user can get specific information that he wants, when he wants and where he wants it. A user doesn't want to burdened with the information load of the internet. But at the same time there shouldn't be any segmentation between the content that occurs on the web and the mobile web.