Today I managed to have noodles with Barbara Ballard who is in town
for the mobile 2.0 event. Japantown San Francisco is always a treat!

Some pretty impressive handsets fresh from Nokia. The sling picture
and performance is amazing.

The view from a conference room while planning next year’s 2.0 Expo.
A gathering of mobile noteables at the Mobile 2.0 Event here in San Francisco today are engaging in a very thought provoking conversation. Here are some notes, taken during the session. Moderated by Tony Fish, on the panel is Patrick McVeigh (CEO of SoonR), Russ McGuire (Sprint), Jean Marc Frangos (BT Group) and Russ Daniels (HP Web Services). Here are the main takeaways as stated by Tony Fish at the end of the discussion:
This year’s mobile 2.0 event was a great success. For a good wrap-up of the event, see this summary by Rudy DeWaele.
Lately, when I pull out my iPhone at the doctor’s office or in a restaurant, I want to hide it in a bit of shame - because everyone else has theirs out as well. It’s the sameĀ feeling I feel when pulling my Sony Vaio laptop out at the WWDC07 conference: Uncomfortable. Normally I pride myself on having the first unlocked European version of some phone that hasn’t yet come out in the U.S. I cannot believe IĀ feel so mainstream and trendy. I find myself asking “What’s next on the mobile horizon?”