EmergeTech Seminar 1

The first seminar was about mobile content and some emerging mobile technologies. To kick things off she talked about the evolution of the cellular phone, how we used to get all boastful when we had the once latest phone the 3310, because it had this new game SPACE IMPACT! Personally i was one of these people, playing snake was not enough, space impact was the new awesome game of that era. I also remember one time i had this wicked Sony Ericsson phone that could change the color of it's back light by toggling the settings with at least 5 different colors, i had one of the coolest phones around! BUT nowadays those phones are considered "obsolete". Some people still do like simple phones that can do just call and text, but hardly do you see those monochrome-non-colored phones. Nowadays phones are "required" to be colored, have decent memory, bluetooth, camera and most often than not it has to have WiFi connectivity. Basically what we want is everything on one single device, a phone, a camera, a video cam, a computer, an mp3 player and a gaming device. True, but not for me since i have two, an awesome phone with no WiFi, and an iPod Touch.

Being said that, Gaming is back in business, just like when the 3310 became a "necessity" because of things like space impact, developers now are wracking their heads to think of addicting games, simple yet really addicting ones that keep the users "glued" to their mobiles. Since people are almost all the time connected to their phone and to the internet because of the famous "I'm mobile" and "I'm on SMS". Like the speaker said, privacy is overrated. People update their status at any given time saying "Eating spaghetti for lunch" and "Going to the mall" just to keep other people updated on your life. Sooner or later, the only gadget we will ever have is an all around mobile handheld device with practically everything on it.