Mobile Monday Fun

I went along to Mobile Monday yesterday evening. I don’t know what I was expecting. I was more or less prepared to politely smile at boring presentations and demos. I probably wasn’t expecting to be as impressed as I was!

There were three companies presenting their products and services last night and they were all fascinating.

First up was Mobile Aware’s Rotan Hanrahan who showed some demos of what some of their clients are doing.

The second presentation reminded me of the Firefly phone, but was a hell of a lot cooler.
Sentry Wireless have come up with a firewall type solution that allows users to restrict who can phone or be phoned from a particular device. The advantage it has over Firefly is that you don’t need any proprietary hardware as the solution works at the SIM level. The first application of the technology is a product they call KidSafe.
Of course there’s no reason why the technology could not be employed in other realms…

The last of the three presentations was from Mobile Complete. It really blew me away!
I’ve mentioned Litmus / SiteVista in the past when talking about browser testing.
Imagine taking this kind of testing to the next level and beyond.
That’s what the guys in Mobile Complete have done.
Their system allows you to gain complete access to a huge array of mobile devices remotely using an ASP model.
During the demo last night one of my friends was actually able to send an SMS to the test phone in the docklands!
You can find out more about the testing suite of Device Anywhere on their site (and test it for 3 hours for free!)

After the demos we adjourned to the bar …