Two observations that point in the same direction: the OS of your mobile doesn’t matter. It’s the internet compatibility that makes all the difference. First an old post by Nokia Linux web tablet product manager Ari Jaaksi:
“Today, we run Linux, X, Gnome, Flash, and friends on Nokia N800. Our big idea form the start was [...]

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I’m at the Von Europe listening to presentations on fixed mobile convergence (FMC). Current topic is “quad-play”, the new holy grail for operators. Quad-play is what you get when you combine TV, fixed phone, mobile phone and broadband access in one package.
In my world that translates to “internet, internet, wireless internet and - you [...]

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Something is happening in the world of mobile phones. Something big. Very big.
The driving forces for the change include the miniaturization of the components necessary for building a PC, the cost of wireless high speed internet access and the platformization of mobile phone software.
Signs of the change include how the company that practically invented [...]

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Doubtless, Google is going mobile. But regardless of the rumors the Google Phone is about as likely as a Microsoft PC.
Building and selling a phone at the scale that a Google Phone would require is a lot of work and requires a huge infrastructure. Selling boxes with hardware in them is a completely different business [...]

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That last post got me thinking. The fact that I can’t get the name of any person calling me by having the phone hooking up to a web service and looking up the name from the phone number is such a sure sign of how far from The Mobile Web we really are that I’m [...]

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This blog is as young as spring time here in Stockholm, so the Carnival of the Mobilists is a good way of getting readers. Dorrian Porter hosts the carnival #71 where I contributed with one post.
The blog Everything and the Mobile Software Universe adds some thoughts to the post.

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Martin Geddes has an observation:
It’s official folks. You can access the Internet when mobile, but the Mobile Internet is dead.

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