1. Introduction to Mobile Technology - GautamKrishnan

2. Why develop for mobile?

4. A well-made app can provide a far better user experience than even the best mobile websites are capable of right now.

5. Very, very easy to develop and market

6. Personal to the user

9. Many people predicted that 2010 would be the year of the tablet, but in actuality, it was the year of one tablet, the iPad.

10. The most important lesson that tablet makers can take away from the iPad is that user experience matters.

12. As the major wireless providers across the world prepare or continue their 4G rollouts, the bandwidth issue has the potential to get a lot better.

13. Compression technologies with video make it possible to send video from a device more quickly.

15. With HTML5, many of the system-level and device specific features can still be harnessed by a web app.

17. Flash may never become a massively adopted mobile technology.

18. That isn’t to say that Flash is dead — or that on the right platform (like the BlackBerry PlayBook), Adobe Air runtimes won’t be perfectly suitable.

21. Shopping Will Become Even More Social

22. It Makes Brick-and-Mortar Digital (and Vice Versa)

23. Attackers and Incumbents Will Tussle

27. Some facts about Android

29. Google Purchased Android Inc in 2005 for $50 million

30. Google announced Android as a mobile platform on November 5th 2007

31. Android is based on Linux Kernel

32. Android has been available as open source since 21 October 2008

33. 12 million lines of code including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8 million lines of C, 2.1 million lines of Java, and 1.75 million lines of C++

34. Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License, a free software and open source license. With the Apache License, vendors can add proprietary extensions without submitting those back to the open source community.

35. The updates for Android are named after Pastries

38. Nimbuzz : Mobile IM, launched in 2008, a new member joins every three seconds.

39. Gravity : Best twitter client for S60v5.

40. Opera Mini : Launched in 2005,compression process to OBML makes transfer time about two to three times faster. More than 113.5 million users, world's most used mobile browser.

43. Cost less than £70,000 to make.

44. Android version of the game was downloaded more than 1 million times within the first 24 hours of release

45. Players log more than 3.33 million hours per day across all platforms, 40 million monthly active users

47. Various markets for mobile applications · Android Market, owned by Google, has 300,000 apps and 6 billion download count till date. Gives a cut of 70% to the developer, one time developer fee of $25.· AppStore, owned by Apple, has 500,000 apps and 15 billion download count till date. Gives a cut of 70% to the developer, charges $99 per year as developer fee. · App World, owned by RIM, has 37,176 apps and 3 million daily download count. Gives a cut of 70% to the developer, charges $200/10 application submissions. · Ovi Store, owned by Nokia, has 83,579 apps and ~1.8 billion download count till date. Gives a cut of 70% to the developer, one time developer fee of 1€. · Windows Phone Marketplace, owned by Microsoft, has 33,022 apps and download count of 12 per person a month. Gives a cut of 70% to the developer, charges $99/100 application submissions

48. Future of mobiles

50. Traveling without presenting a physical or digital boarding pass.

51. Opening a locked car, house, hotel, or office door.

52. Very high speed internet on your mobile devices.

53. Nearly flawless speech recognition.

54. Foldable displays and e-paper

55. Augmented reality