3GSM: Morning roundup

Hi, this is Ashley now. It's sort of around lunch time and everyone's packed up and is chomping on Tapas. But overall it's been a disappointing 3GSM for me. It's not really been this huge breakthrough of Blockbuster phones you've seen in previous years. It's been more of consolidation, besides a big story it's a matter of HSDPA that's around. HSDPA is of course a kind of Super 3G, which has got download speeds of up to 3.6 megabits per second and it labels mobile phones to see all of kind of things. It certainly improves the quality of the video screening and surely downloading large files. But virtually every new phone here seems to be HSDPA compatible, so that's the way it's going. In terms of the handsets. The massive story hass probably been Motorola, which after a quiet year has come back with interesting products. Nokia was very quiet really, there's no huge phones, you know these serious phones, and the new communicator, the E90, is quite impressive. Sony Ericsson didn't have anything new on their stand. So very quiet, I'm gonna spend the rest of the day now, kind of taking in this smaller parts of the exhibition. Trying to find some more of the squawky stuff. There are a few smaller handset manufacturers we haven't spoken to yet and obviously a lot of applications. There's a lot of talk here of Web 2.0 applications going on to mobiles, and we then we had an announcement from Nokia about YouTube. So we'll try and find some more of that stuff and we'll have an update on Spin-my-Blog which is obviously paring this Voice-to-Blog service. So that's what I'm gonna be doing this afternoon.

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