Suite au récent congrès Trends from Mobile World, ce billet sur Stephen's Lighthouse présente en 30 points les tendances en matière de téléphonie et d'usage des technologies dites mobiles pour les prochaines années. Voici les 5 premiers.

1. Voice will not be the dominant form of electronically mediated communication in the future. It will stay static as new forms - even beyond texting and SMS take over. Jetson style videophones are already here (including my new one).
2. Mobile will have a large component of asynchronous voice messaging including threaded discussions using v-mail technologies. Timed v-mail as well as mobile v-blogging will be common.
3. Mobile devices will be most individuals' primary electronic device used for their calendar, voice and e-mail, small scale video, learning, surfing, search, GIS, etc. - basically most everything. This moves the virtual world from home or office-based computing to truly personal computing.
4. GIS features will be key to the growth of mobile applications. 3D maps of your local area, context sensitive ads and coupons, smart mobs, political rallies, etc. will all come to popular consciousness. Search and local apps will be GIS sensitive.
5. Search on the mobile will be the fastest growing app in the next five years. It is already a major feature of Apple iPhones (as I noted on this blog recently) and other digital phone companies are well advised to catch up.

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A voir également ce rapport de la Technology Review du MIT: Your Next Cell Phone (toujours via Stephen's Lighthouse)

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Màj (05/03/08): voir aussi ce rapport de Pew: Cellphones More Important To Users Than Internet, TV, Email (source: SEL, 05/03/08)