What a wild time I had last week. I spent the week in Barcelona, Spain attending Mobile World Congress. I met hundreds of people and gave out and received hundreds of business cards.
I also interviewed a handful of really interesting people. I hope to write up all my interviews but in the mean time I’m going to post a short intro from my guests here so you can don’t have to wait forever.
This is Rafi Ton, the CEO of NewACT. We’re talking about vufone their very exciting mobile app.
Here is Kerry Ritz of Palringo and one of the winners of TopMobile20. Congratulations Palringo.
This is Andrew Grill talking about Gigafone.
This is Veronica Livshits from DSPV.
This video is of Boaz Zilberman one of the founders of Fring
This is Oliver Starr who is the voice behind ShapeWriter. Oliver swears this app speeds up his input into his touch handsets.
This is Nilo Garcia Manchado the CEO of econav a really interesting green tool
Here’s the Sonim “indestructible handset” according to my MIR Review buddies.
This is the Q1 from Blue Ant. For the sake of transparency they gave me a BT headset (not a Q1 unfortunately), thanks guys.
Not to sound obvious or anything, but why, at a mobile tuned event, are people still giving out business cards. If anything, all of the attendees should have had name tags with personalized QR codes on them. Besides decreasing typing errors, it would also speak better towards the idea of *mobile* tech than much else that was announced and isn’t here yet.
Posted by ARJWright | March 2, 2009, 1:41 pmAntoine,
I agree and disagree. Many of the Nokia people I met with and got briefings from gave me business cards with QR codes on them and my next business card will probably have a QR code on it. The thing is, I accumulated hundreds of cards and I don’t want all those peoples information in my phone. Maybe I’m putting 3 or 4 of them into my main address book.
So the argument goes both ways. Maybe we need an app that will hold the info and allow me to sort it on a computer after the show. But then again I like having a card in my pocket to make notes on and look at the persons name I’m talking to because after 2 seconds I have forgotten their name.
Posted by Jeb Brilliant | March 2, 2009, 1:56 pmQR codes on business cards is a good start. That’s something that I’m pulling off on mine as well.
There are business card scanners that would do what you are asking.
Posted by ARJWright | March 2, 2009, 2:22 pmARJWright: Agree with you completely…
We had a large QR Code on the table on our exhibition stand in Hall 7 (D46) and that is exactly what we used it for… to give people my contact details straight to their phone.
We also had a cardscan for the old fashioned delegates and promoted our service using Bluetooth casting of a new mobile application, QR codes to get people trying out our service on their mobile.
Posted by Romi Parmar | March 4, 2009, 11:56 am