I’m here in Las Vegas at the annual International CTIA Wireless show. It’s good to be back here with all of the industry players — the wireless carriers (e.g. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint), device manufacturers (e.g. Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry), and communication application providers like Premiere Global. The theme for this year’s show is “Mobile Life”, something that resonates easily with all of us who are increasingly mobile for work, home and play. We’ve made big investments in mobile for our meeting and document solutions, and it is good to hear that the wireless mobile industry is thriving despite our challenging economic times.
Here are the big announcements so far:
- Steve Largent (President of CTIA) announced the latest stats for the North America Wireless Market for 2008:
- 270 Million subscribers
- 1 Trillion SMS messages
- 2.2 trillion minutes for voice
- $40 Billion in revenues
- 300 Million SmartPhones by 2013
- SmartPhone market growing by 30% year over year
- Research in Motion (RIM) launched their much anticipated BlackBerry AppWorld. This is a similar offering to the wildly successful Apple AppStore.
- There is speculation that Palm may actually announce the official launch date for their highly anticipated “Pre” device. But we’re just speculating along with CNET at this point. For those fans of Palm from the 90s, I certainly would like see Palm find some success with this big push.
- Lots of good debates on the different mobile dev platforms and whether or not there should be more uniformity: Google Android, Brew, Sun J2ME, Apple iPhone, Symbian, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm, etc.
* As a friendly reminder, you can check out our current mobile apps for meetings (conferencing) and document solutions. We’ll have more exciting news for mobility apps soon as well.
More updates to follow!
Peter J. Stewart
Group VP, Product Innovation & Management
Tags: appworld, blackberry, Conferencing, ctia, iphone, mobility, wireless
Good to finally see a blackberry app store.
The Ovi Store by Nokia will be quite good as well.
With Symbian being the world’s most popular mobile operating system, it would be good to have a presence there for international exposure.