M-Commerce

"Thanks to the latest technology[...] When Malaysia is talking about 3G/Pentium4, others countries has implemented 4G, 5G [...] Pentium 8!? [...]- DR Axx, MMU FOM"

Despite how true about 5G and Pentium 8, everyone is talking about m-commerce nowsaday.
To me, M-commerce is all about doing business on mobile devices. In this case, even a notebook can be counted as a mobile device; with wireless network implemented, a normal e-commerce website is now m-commerce enabled too.

Of course, not much people would want to carry a notebook everywhere they go. Mobile phone and PDA are the focus nowsaday. However, these devices have many limitation such as small in screen size (could be one of their benefits too). The problem come now: in order to presents a large amount of information, you will end up in deeply nested navigation links.

That could be one of the reason why people give up WAP.

What about SMS? In Malaysia, undeniable, it is making money. The youngster could use sms for chating and have their chat contents display on the TV. I was surprise that they can afford it.

But, where the money go to? The developers? For my information, the sms/rington/game download are still very much controlled by the telco (Maxis, Digi, Celcom). A java game for example, telco help you host your game, cover download bandwidth and provide download channel; you pay them 50% of your income. For SMS, it work roughtly the same way too. This seem ridiculous to me who is born in the www age where i don't have to pay for sending Email, using messenger and so on.

Hopefully, with 3G(always on connection, high bandwidth) , merging of PDA-MOBILE phone, standardization (XHTML, Flash), mobile content providers in the future could get rid of telco control. That would be a boom for mobile contents. Ya, thanks to the latest technology.....