@CTIA Day 3 – Throw away your network card and become your own walking hot spot
After two days of meetings, networking and participating in learning tracks, I spent most of day three walking the floor to see what was new and exciting in the mobile ecosystem.
There were a few things that really stood out:
- Two voice related services that allow you to receive text messages as voice or the other way around. Services from GotVoice and Voiceonthego.com could have some very interesting applications – especially if your client or brand services the hearing impaired, the elderly… or as a safe hands-free or eyes-free access to email while driving
- Universal remote control- turn your blackberry bold into a universal remote control that is bluetooth enabled and allows you to manage up to 16 AV components per room. The interface is beautiful, simple, and a breeze to setup. Check out their site at unify4life.com.
- Walking hot spot- this demo blew me away. Turn your Symbian or windows mobile device into a wifi hotspot in seconds! No cables or bluetooth required. Leveraging 3G or wifi capabilities of your phone, you can instantly setup a hot spot and make your mobile device discoverable to anybody within 300 feet of you.
- You can allow up to 5 connections / devices to your mobile hot spot at a time.
- I’m spending around $60 / month currently for my Rogers network card – but apparently pricing for this software is about $25 / year!
- It’s not yet available for Blackberry or iphone devices – but they are working on versions for both
Overall it was another great week at CTIA. Look for more articles & perspective next week as I work through all the notes I’ve been taking 
