The future is mobile!

With the on-going game between several mobile hardware & software firms – I’m TOTALLY excited. Gadgets, technologies, innovations, advancements – they get me ‘high’, and this current kick-s movement & daily updates in the mobile/telephony/VOIP world is truly amazing!!! I believe, the world is TOTALLY moving into mobile market – it’s the future. It was mainframes, going onto desktops; then came laptops and the future is TOTALLY mobile. (As an aside, I’m loving the use of the word ‘totally’ – TOTALLY!)

1. Apple’s iPhone shook the much-settled world of the largest handset provider of the world, Nokia.

2. Now again, Apple’s iPhone 3g is bound to stir the well-established corporate penetration of RIM’s Blackberry series of phones.

3. Nokia has apparently decided to completely take-over Symbian, raising its stake from previous 48% – and it’s in the air that they’re planning to make it an open-source platform.

4. Google is throwing its best horses forward in the mobile game in developing the ‘delayed’ free mobile platform, Android (along with 30+ other firms). Symbian becoming an open source mobile platform will be a direct competitor to Android.

5. Samsung has recently launched its new phone – Omnia to compete with iPhone.

6. Getting back to Nokia – it has launched its N-series phone: N82 (which I believe is the best phone in the market currently – catering to each & every need of the user with the best features) & in business-line E-series phones: E71 (this business-phone TOTALLY rocks)

7. Now getting onto more serious stuff, VOIP world is changing the established world-order of landlines & GSM mobiles too – TOTALLY! Using softphone VOIPs I can currently call about 50 countries for free, for unlimited time. For other countries, the telephony is FREAKINGLY cheap.

8. As if softphones on computers were not enough to the ever-ending lazying and craving desire for ease & comfort, Fring has further brought these VOIPs to be integrated with VOIPs (and needless to mention, Skype, Gtalk & other IMs)

9. With Tpad & Skype etc. providing local lines in countless countries so that people make local calls to reach any globe-trotter without the change in any number, the world has shrinked further – TOTALLY!

10. Skype’s new enhanced video facility is touted to root out existing ISDN Video-conferencing and make it dirt cheap.

I believe, this is just the beginning – the beginning of a totally new world-order (NWO, I love this acronym)! There’s lot more in the mobile space with the virtual communication medium like ‘Second Life’ going mobile and Lively coming in action. The opportunities are limitless; a total change is imminent; the future is good!

The only question pertinent question here, I believe, is – when these mobiles/phones (and ofcourse, other gadgets too) in our lives have put us behind closed doors, when we’ve stopped to step out of the dwellings to interact with others, when we don’t even know who lives next doors to us, are mobile phones actually “bringing us closer’“?

The Third World War!

Some days back, I happened to initiate a discussion on the growing hostility between China & US with a friend. The discussion went on to become a little heated one when I started deducing that it may result in the third world-war from a mere growing-tension between the two nations. I was supporting my arguments with facts, thoughts of the leaders of various nations, economists, policy makers and news items in daily read, whereas he was plainly shouting to shut me up. The discussion died soon henceforth.

But for me, it did not end here – I did some research (ofcourse, using google.com), read blogs, fact-sheets to further my knowledge on this topic and to predict the future with much more confidence. Let me put down few points here:

1.  I became a big fan of Mr.Gurcharan Das, from the day I read his “India Unbound”. The clarity in his thoughts is amazing. In one of his blog-posts on how the other nations want India to rise as a superpower in Asia to stand against China, he brilliantly puts his point across. Though he writes more from the perspective of how India is being seen in other nations’ perspective, but for me – its so much about sensing a fear of China is others’ hearts.

2. Though this news is a very old one, the gravity of the situation can never be undermined. The pace of high-tech weaponary development in China in just a couple of years, which took several decades in the US is plainly alarming (and apparently is being attributed to the stealth of Intellectual Property from the States)

3. Accept or deny! Oil is one of the biggest roots of current problems & evils. China’s bid to buy an American Oil co. to secure its needs of fuel, and thereby reducing its dependence on other nations has been looked at with disbelief and suspicion by the US (and not to mention the rest of the powers)

4. The perennial issue of the mainland (China) trying to take over the island (Taiwan) is further getting heated up (and the US is bound to actively participate in this issue siding Taiwan), with the Olympics just a few weeks away. Another (old) blog-post in this regard is worth reading.

In your point of view, I may have completely messed up in making sense of the available news, posts & thoughts of various personalities, but I consider them as some serious thoughts to ponder about. At the end, this is just my personal perspective.

Hello World

Finally! The window to my thoughts and perspective opens before the world today.

For quite sometime now, I was contemplating to have a place where I could talk to myself, share my perspective (and hence the name of the blog) about several issues, events, people, thoughts, world-affairs etc. Sometimes I wonder if I have a very unique and/or weird way of looking at things – Let it come out in the posts/comments.

Right now all I can say is – the launch of the new 3G Iphone is going to change the established world-order today. How & why – only time will tell