Mobility on the Rise & SMS a Vital Tool
My friend and colleague Gary Kim wrote two posts today that I'm going to wrap together into one commentary.
First Gary wrote about the mobile marketplace
13% Mobile Handset Growth in 2008
In the second quarter of 2008, tier one handset vendors enjoyed year-over-year unit shipment growth of between 15 and 22 percent, says ABI Research. ABI estimates that 301 million units were shipped during the quarter.
The mobile device market will deliver 13 percent growth to take 2008 annual shipments to 1.3 billion units.
In another post, Gary brought up a great point about SMS, or mobile text messaging.
Send a Text Message, Carriers Say
The earthquake that hit Southern California on Tuesday almost by definition was going to lead to a temporary spike in call volume and temporary blocking of many dial attempts. The perhaps interesting angle was advice by AT&T to "try text messaging on a mobile" as a way of getting messages such as "are you okay?" or "I'm okay" through the congestion. Good advice.
Both point to a couple of simple ideas, but VERY important ones.
Mobility. in handsets, wireless broadband, smartphones and the like is probably the single most dynamic segment of the market today. If you aren't paying attention to mobility solutions, and how they enable productivity using a variety of unified communications tools, you're doing yourself and your company a disservice.
And on the SMS front, I did a lot of work on some cyberwarfare exercises with the Department of Homeland Security after Hurricane Katrina. One of the things that came to light was how survivable SMS messaging was during the emergency. While phone lines were jammed, kids who use SMS all the time wee in constant communications. SMS is a survivable, reliable too. It's something we should all use more freely.
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With the advent of web sms services we can now use SMS on our data plans! www.econfirm.com.au is one example of a company taking web sms to the next level.
Posted by: Simon | August 1, 2008 12:02 AM