Welcome to the 148th Carnival of the Mobilists… the American Presidential Election Issue (and perhaps the issue that will get MOPocket to start blogging regularly again!)
On the eve before the US presidential election we have some really good posts from around the mobile blogosphere.

To begin with lets discuss the iPhone issue:

Jamie Wells of Mobile Stance asks an interesting question: Is the iPhone a major indicator of an eroding middle class?
While Matt Radford of AllAboutiPhone asks” How many applications does the average iphone owner install?

In the foreign (from an American point of view) policy section:
The Digital Evangelist reports from the Symbian Smartphone show to tell us that Symbian should have but has yet to have learned anything from Psion.
Dennis from WapReview writes about the always interesting explosion in African Mobile Browsing!
When it comes to Change:

The always interesting Ajit Jaokar of FutureText tells us about his search for the IMS/NGN application that is A multimedia version of Kindle.

When it comes to election policy:

Barbara Ballard of Little Spings Design has a look at touch screen designs and how it translates to the mobile touch screen psyche.

James Cooper from the new hit Mjelly takes a look at a positive example of Bluetooth Casting!

And in the arena of the broadband debate:

And Ari Zoldan of GoingWimax ponders the upcoming broadband slugfest and asks if Wimax can come on top of its competitors.

From MOpocket we have a brief discussion of some of the dirty ads Sprint has had regarding Google’s Android.

Now, I want to remind every American Citizen to vote on election day Tuesday November 3. And on that Note my vote goes to the WapReviews article on Africa’s Mobile browsing. I have always thought that kind of stuff both important and fascinating!

Next weeks CArnival is at MArk Van Hoofts Ubiquitous Thoughts

See you then!

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This weeks 141ist Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Chetan Sharma at Always On Real-Time Access, the Carnival showcases blog post gems from our industry’s busy week of events, including CTIA, TC50, DEMO, Mobile Web Strategies, and many others.
While the MOpocket article was not picked it is true, their are gems in this one.

This weeks Carnival of the Mobilists is at Paul Rupperts Mobile Point of View blog. And in its usually Ruppert style it is very very well written.
Some great posts in there including a submission from MOpocket.

Coming off a week of fundraising for his new venture, Justin Oberman at MoPocket, in “Get Pulled Over without a headset?” provides proof positive of local state constabulary pulling over handsfree violators, and has found a vendor providing gratis hands-free headsets to those caught in the police dragnet.

I have no idea as to what venture he may be talking about

So go on over and check it out!

Its been a long time since MOpocket has hosted a Carnival Of The Mobilists and we are honored to be able to host this weeks 134th addition. MOpocket has been down for a while but is now up and running with new writer and Webmaster Mordy Gilden as well as your usual old favorites.

While its the middle of the summer and people are off relaxing and not doing their normal work routines people have still found some time to post some great mobile related posts and I look forward to sharing them with you all here.

Along the Carnival I have posted pictures from a great post I found on How to Beat Carnival Games. An issue some of you might come across over the summer months

Lets start with the new-commers!

NEW COMERS

Joining the Carnival for the first time is Shaun Zelbers Mobile Open Blog with an interesting post which provides a starting kit for .mobi (or mobile internet) development. The post also goes into important considerations when thinking about the Mobile Internet in general and I look forward to discovering more mobile web development applications and tricks via this site.

But you cant get to the Mobile web without data and joining the Carnival for the first time as well is Ari Zoldan and his blog Going WiMax. In the world of iPhone and mobile applications its easy to forget about broadband issues but Zoldan is one of those Wimax experts that makes thinking about broadband (in this case WiMax) fun. His insight is clear in this post regarding Clearwire’s WiMAX testing and Acquirement of IDT’s spectrum. But I would peruse this blog some more to read its amazing content.

Mobile Learning

From Carnival administrator Judy Breck’s Golden Swamp we have a first hand experience post with some extra insight on teenage usages of mobile devices when it comes to education and what educators (not kids) should do about it! (and all caused by the new BatMan movie.) Her concluding remarks are right on the money.

Mobile Social Networking

Sachendra Yadav muses upon a notion I have always agreed with, namely that the mobile phone’s “contact list” is already the worlds largest mobile social networking platform given the very nature of what it is. Sachendra tells us about a company called Zyb, a mobile platform that enhances your phone book into an even more social networky platform.

Mobile Content

Over at Martin Sauter’s (hey how are you man!) WirelesMoves blog, Martin gives a little ditty on when the Small Screen Becomes Big and the pro’s of using your mobile phone for content reading instead of the good old newspaper and magazine. He is asking for other peoples personal experiences when they have preferred their phone to other reading materials.

Mobile Usage Case Study

Steven Hoober’s Little Spring Design Blog uses the examples of Mobile Data Terminals inside police cars and emergency units to talk about what it takes to really make things mobile.

Mobile Money

Carnival regular C. Enrique Ortiz writes about Junipers study that NFC Mobile Payments to Reach US$75 Billion by 2013 and how we should look at that figure realistically. Reality or wish fulfillment?

Device Security

From Ajit Jaokar’s Open Gardens Blog we get the ambitions and skepticism surrounding OMTP’s Bondi.

Voice

Sara Lipman at Really Sarah Syndication takes on the notion of an only voice activated mobile world.

The New Mobile World

The first half of 2008 took the mobile industry by storm.. Nokia+Trolltech+Symbian, Android, BREW+Flash, Adobe Open Screen, LiMo
devices.. As the dust settles, Research Director Andreas Constantinou at Vision Mobile looks at how the mobile landscape is shaping around 7 centres of gravity.

Venture / iPhone

From Mobhappy we have a very important post reminding application developers that its not all about the iPhone. (Hey Carlo, I did not see you there )

MOpocket

Over here at MOpocket I want to tell you about an article I have written that examines text messaging campaigns with a focus on Chase Banks text–2-win mobile marketing campaign and their apparent reaction.

THE POST OF THE WEEK

This is a hard one as we really came down to two but the post of the week goes to Andreas Constantinou’s post on the New Mobile Landscape.

Next Week

Next weeks carnival will be at my friend Paul Ruppert’s Mobile Point of View blog (which apparently is celebrating one year!). For those of you that have not yet read it or have gotten to know Paul do so, immediately! He is one of the quiet thought leaders of this space.

For more info on the carnival and how to submit or host visit the Carnival of the Mobilists Website.

Have a good week!

Mobily yours,

Justin

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This weeks 133rd Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted over at the blog of Vision Mobile, a market analysis and strategic advisory firm in the wireless sector that I personally would like to learn more about.
Anyways, the Carnival is full of a variety of iPhone goodness (including a post from MOPocket). So go on over there and check it out!

Tune in next week when MOpocket hosts the Carnival of the Mobilists right here! Its been way to long!

To learn how to submit a post or host a Carnival of the Mobilists make sure to visit the Carnivals homepage here.

See you next week!

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The 132nd Carnival of the Mobilists is over at the blog for Mippin (which I guess means you can also read it on your mobile phone ).
Anyway, I read most of the articles this morning and its an amazing array of posts and a majority of them are not iPhone related which came as a great relief!

MOpocket is of course mentioned. So go on over there and check it out.

For more information on the Carnival visit here.

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I know its a little late but like Rudy said it is the first week of summer. Anyways, incase you have not already seen it the 129th Carnival of the Mobilists is over at by good friend Rudy’s M-Trends blog.

Rudy, who has been more busy than ever, did a great job and was right to pick up on the theme of LBS or location based services. While many phones have had built in GPS for a long time now, the comming of the iPhone 3G with built in Assisted GPS is going to boost the LBS space like nobodies business. So go on over to Rudy’s carnival and check it out.

Its been a long time since MOPocket has taken part of the Carnival of the Mobilsts and I am so happy to see some familiar faces as well as meet some of the new mobile blogs.
Anyways, for its first entry into the carnival after a long while MOPocket entered its post of Smartphones written by the new MOpocket writer and webmaster Mordy Gilden who also blogs at Mobile Enthusiast.
At the carnival the post is wrongly attributed to me.
So, if you have not already checked it out, go an visit this weeks Football (aka Soccer for you Amricans) themed Carnival at Avram Grants wonderful blog.

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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is up at Steve Litchfield’s 3-Lib, where Steve’s done a fantastic job of bringing all the posts together. Be sure to check it out. You may also know steve from his amazing work at All About Symbian.

Of course MOpocket has a mention.

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I am so excited that the 42nd Carnival Of The Mobilists is over at MobileActive… one of the first mobile communities I ever belonged to and of whose blog I am an editor for. MobileActive, for those of you that do not know, is an amazing group of loosed networked individuals all dedicated to exploring the ways in which mobile devices can be used to enhance the greater social good.

Well, once again there are a lot of dynamite posts so go to the Carnival and check it out.

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