Frost & Sullivan report The Concept of Mobile Social Networking is fast catching on in the USA
A new analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds the concept of using social networking websites from a mobile phone to be catching on fast in the USA as all top tier mobile operators now offer social networking applications
Oddly the report concludes with something I strongly disagree with: “While the extension of popular online social networking communities onto mobile phones is a major growth driver, it is unreasonable to expect the same level of functionality as is offered through the PC”
Why does Frost & Sullivan’ Senior Analyst Vikrant Gandhi think that a Mobile Community would want to be limited by the functionality offered by a PC when they can be built upon the functionality of a Mobile.
That’s right a communication device that is:
> Never Shared
> Always carried
> Already holding the contact details of all my social contacts
> Subsidized by network revenues
> Location aware
> Has an integrated payment mechanism
> Always on and reachable
Oh and when it’s got 3G it’s also got location awareness down to a few metres, zero latency and an integrated 2-way Audiovisual system!
