After almost a year of following Carnivals and submitting our own entries as well it is a privilege for the Mobile Strategy Blog to host the 202nd edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists! For this week we have thought-provoking pieces, inside scoops, tough questions and overall interesting posts on a variety of topics. All of our writers provide a reflection of what is happening in the market as they discuss Mobile Operating Systems, application stores, Google’s latest acquisition (AdMob), mobile banking and mobile financial services. So let’s get started…
For this edition we welcome back MOpocket which after a long hiatus is back and sharing with us the inside scoop on Windows Mobile 6.5.1. Of special interest to Windows Mobile followers is the answer to the question: Is WM 6.5.1 real? It also includes a bonus high-level explanation on the difference between resistive and capacitive displays.
Enrique Ortiz writes a provocative piece that will surely get BlackBerry fans upset. He proposes several reasons why RIM should drop the BlackBerry OS and go with Android instead.
Over at WIP Jam Thibault interviews the CEO of Handster. What is Handster you ask? A white label provider of appstores for carriers, device manufacturers and other distributors.
MSearchGroove presents a podcast this week that opens up by declaring the exciting month of November – as an all about Android month. It does well in asking the uncomfortable question as to how many Android devices have actually shipped? It touches on Google’s purchase of AdMob and how the giant is in fact buying distribution relationships with mobile publishers more than anything through the acquisition. There is of course … go listen check it out.
This week we welcome Carnival newcomer David Eads from Mobile Manifesto who lives up to his blog’s subtitle of providing strategic insight into mobile commerce with an analysis of Scotiabank and M-Com’s announcement last week that mobile banking will be available in Canada in Spring 2010. David asks some good questions and wonders what will actually be delivered. David’s piece follows where my earlier post on Mobile Financial Services in Canada left off.
If you are new to the Carnival don’t forget to read about it here… If you want to play catchup you can read last week’s Carnival (#201) at Burning the Bacon with Barrett.
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