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NASSCOM EMERGEOUT Conclave to unravel emerging revolutions

AnythingButAverage — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:19:21 +0000

Come 25th August and we will witness the 5th edition of NASSCOM EMERGEOUT Conclave at the Shangri-La Hotel, New Delhi. Partnered with Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the event is being anticipated by the mobile developers’ community as a forum to create awareness about their products amongst their target market.

The center point of the Conclave will lie in understanding how emerging and start-up companies can reap economic benefits out of upcoming web-based social platforms, mobile devices and AppStore. Vijay will be speaking on a current hot topic: “Smarter and Faster: How will cheaper smart phones and 3G networks impact the mobile ecosystem?”

Companies who have developed applications on the iPhone, Blackberry, Google Android, Nokia OviStore, etc. will be short-listed and showcased to a jury which will then select the Top 10 mobile applications. Vijay is a part of the esteemed panel to evaluate the best of the best mobile apps that are part of the ecosystem as game changers in India, along with Jasmeet Gandhi, Mouli Raman, Sandeep Sawhney, Prasanto Kumar Roy, etc.

Hunt for my neXt phone

Vijay Shekhar — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:42:22 +0000

I am using the Blackberry Flip these days and I moved to this from Blackberry bold and before that I used iPhone (first cut) for a while.

I now know that instead of polling-based-email I need a push-email device. Incidentally blackberry does it best and iPhone hack still does not get integrated to enterprise email (we use Google App).

Another important feature is form factor. A big bulky handhald (read: B*B Bold) is skip for me. I like to keep it “hidden” or near to hidden in my hand/pocket.

Third imp factor is music which I can play in my car/take with me and so on. So simply larger HDD does not work but connection of it in my car is equally imp . Either FM transmitter or standard jack which my car could support would do.

Finally, I add app store/app as my last in wish list as I know the most of apps I use are still web/wml/xml based so they can be carried anywhere. A device app which is cool is fancy for few days, rest of days you are struggling with memory and most use app ( in my case messaging). This keeps iPhone 3G out anyways.

the choice lately came between Blackberry Storm (misses wifi ! so no-go ), Palm Pre and an-unknown-next version of iPhone.

Just in case if you haven’t seen the Palm pre yet, here is the video for you.

I am getting convinced that Palm could do the trick with Palm Pre. Did you not love the video and think it is cooler than iPhone?

Cant wait to get a Plam Pre in my hands. Just incase where is Nokia ? No-where. The N96 was such a let down even for power user for its speed and trash feature set.

What will be your next phone’s important feature?

Launch of Nokia N97 and Linux on iPhone!

Vijay Shekhar — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:27:07 +0000

The N97 has been launched and on the same day Linux has been ported on iphone devices. What a day in history of handheld computing.
I remember when I first saw Newton way back in 1998. We use to work on Mail on the run to offer mobile email.

Today, Fantastic capability in device is allowing porting full capability OS on mobile computers.

Got two Video’s to share demonstrating where it could lead. First one is hands on experience of Nokia’s latest launch of N97 device :

Second is more of a hack. The iPhone (and ipod Touch) can run Linux. Though it is still to support full capability of firmware.

iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.

I wish we have so many devices and so many OS’s variations. Everyone uses that fits them most.
So how will application eco system survive?

Huh! Who is writing applications on native OS now ?

Flash to Java to widgets are the way to keep growing. standard based support of these frameworks will be critical.

When will devices like iphone and N97 to reach $100 mark? Any guess?