For the last couple of days I've been playing with my latest tech toy, the Nokia "please don't call it a phone" N800.
This and similar devices, including the iPhone, have world-changing implications for newsgathering as well as publishing and distribution.
I'll get to those points shortly, but first a few words about why I went with the N800.
WSJ reports that Google's long-rumored mobile phone is on its way to becoming a reality.
Drawing from no actual evidence whatsoever, mixed with a big helping of baseless speculation, here's what I think we'll get:
Jay Small cites an eMarketer item about the low level of Internet access by U.S. mobile phone users.
The article cites a number of reasons for the low usage despite pretty much universal access capability in the installed handset base. (The study says 81% of mobile browsers support XHTML Mobile Profile, the latest standard.)
I think it's much simpler than it's all made out to be: The telcos have simply strangled this new medium.
Business Week takes a look at how Myspace is maneuvering to embed itself in mobile phones by getting special Myspace software preloaded in the handsets.
