The year of mobile/cell? New passwords
Every year for the past few has apparently been the mobile year of something, 3d/broadband/malware, you name it! I didn’t notice, sure my feed reader told me, but I didn’t notice. I was a laggard when it came to mobile. For a number of years I refused to join the masses, “I didn’t want to be disturbed”.
[Obviously] I got a mobile, and still I didn’t really notice. Now I’m noticing. Now it affects me:
- Photos go from phone to my Flickr from my pocket
- My location I txt to my Plazes
- Presence, yup. I publicly broke up with Twitter, and for the moment am using my Jaiku (this might all change, I do miss Twitter)
- The GMail client is amazing, I’m happy to be without laptop
- … then the rest, Radar, Google Maps, QR codes, Opera Mini, Widsets… and more.
The handsets are not without problems (UI speed seems to be a big issue), but now, the pro’s outweigh the con’s. In my world, I’ve become much more mobile.
My proof, I remember in patterns. My password, no idea what it is - give me a keyboard and I know the pattern. I am updating all my passwords to something that is easier to input on a mobile (and, yes, just as secure for all those considering cracking) as my attention is often on my mobile, not my laptop. For me, this is the year of the mobile.
June 11th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Good post Dave. Most of the apps you are talking about here are of the early adopter variety, but it shows that things are finally happening. Note also that the vast majority of them are web first and mobile second.
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