3GSM World Congress, Barcelona, February 2007

 Miro's product roadmaps
This year was the first time I visted the Miro foundation in Barcelona. His paintings look very close to our flip-charts after discovery workshops. I had a meeting there with Peter Vesterbacka.



3G video demos
HP team set-up a 3G video conversation services using video calls to Conversa web 2.0 service. This demo was very well received numerous visitors on the main HP booth.
We also demonstrated with Voxsurf the 3G vidcast mobile video blogging solution to YouTube, Daily Motion and Vox.

 

Video calls allow sending video recordings of unlimited duration, an advantage over MMS 10-20 seconds clips. The interaction makes it easy to review or access other menus. The trade-off is that H.263 codec used in most handsets cannot correct errors during poor radio transmissions. This type of service was on display at many other booths but we were commented for the quality of the visual ineteraction, displaying Flash animations and not textual menus for example.

Instant communications
We also did a presentation of our development of group multimedia communications on IMS networks. The key concepts are sharing of group contacts and multimedia (text, audio, video) in real-time using an XDM server. We maintain session context, implement Web and IMS APIs at the server and client level to allow developpers to customize in as many vertical services as required. In that sense it is an IMS/Web 2.0 toolkit as well as an end-user service.

 I concluded the show with a tour of the bars together organized by Rudy De Waele of m-trends host of the Mobile Monday Peer Awards 2007 and a few other mobile activists. Rudy had also innovated with a Mobile Sunday on the day before the show. I discovered the next morning that I was not 18 years old anymore and could not cope with excess of gin an tonic, even if the brand uses our video software.