This is an outline of what Ozzie Hall-Osman got from his attendance at this years

16-17 October 2007, ExCel, London

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Day 1 - Morning
This year the show included great free 'Keynote' presentations and Seminars from leading worldwide companies. This is a BIG improvement from past shows that didn't allow the general public visitors to hear the speakers and see presentations (Thank you Symbian). The sessions were very informative and outlined many exiting developments in the world of Smartphones over the next few years.
New Innovations By Toshio Miki, DoCoMo.
Mobile Smartphones are taking on the role of making payments, known as 'Wallet Payments'; e.g. to pay for public transport like the popular Oyster Card. HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) is becoming the standard in the latest devices such as the Nokia E90 enabling very fast broadband speeds for high speed downloads of music, email attachments/video streaming e.g. Mobile TV on Mobile Smartphones. Faster 'Super 3G' and '4G' data transfer speed is under development and being planned for availability in 2010-20.
For more information go to www.nttdocomo.com
New Innovations in user experiences By Nokia (Lee Williams Technology Platforms)
S60 "Open to New Features..." 76% watch Mobile TV and take Photographs. 81% Web Browser. 31% IM (Instant Messenger). 8% VoIP (e.g. Skype). Internet is becoming a core mobile experience. 3 has just chosen Symbian as the OS for Mobile Internet on S60 devices.
Integrating Flash Lite 3, enabling video, e.g. YouTube.
New S60 'Touch User Interface' - fingertips and/or stylus interaction. Advanced Sensor Technologies.
For more information go to www.nokia.com.
Opportunities when the Internet & Mobile Worlds Meet By Bobby Rao (Vodafone)
3G device sales are growing 100% a year. A new WAP version of 'FaceBook'. Vodafone have worked closely with eBay, Google, Yahoo, GoogleMaps and MySpace to develop a better users experience.
For more information go to www.vodafone.com.
2012: A Mobile Odyssey By Matts Lindoff (Sony Ericsson)
HOT NEWS! Sony Ericsson have sold 50% of their share of UIQ to Motorola!!! "Smartphones need to be 'Smart', users don't need to be 'Smart' to use them". Battery technology should increase battery life by 40% in the next 4-5 years. What you have in a Sony VIAO notebook PC today, you will have in a Smartphone in 2010.
For more information go to www.sonyericsson.com.

Day 1 - Afternoon
Smartphones: The Heart of the Mobile Lifestyle By Mark Donovan, M:Metrics.
Very interesting worldwide metrics of smartphone usage, sales etc. 26.6% growth in UK market in Jun 06-Jul 07. 104.2% in USA.
UK 35% Symbian, 25% WM, Blackberry 15?%, Palm ?%. Top 12 devices in USA have QWERTY keyboards due to heavy email use.
For more information go to www.mmetrics.com.
MOBILE TV By Stuart Collingwood, Sling Media.
Sling Player Mobile - watch TV from your Sling Box (which was launched in the UK in 2006) with your home TV-Video on your Smartphone. Available from the Carphone Warehouse.
For more information go to www.slingmedia.com.
SpodTronic Live By Mikko Linnamaki (Liquid Air Lab)
Virgin Radio. New V3.0 due on 17/10/07 will enable audio (inc pictures) streaming from Radio stations. SpodTronic Live have purchased the music rights to BBC's 1000+ Rock Archive and over 500 hours of documentaries, from 1971.
For more information go to www.spodtronic.com/en/index.html
Navigation and Beyond By Simon Glassman (TeleAtlas). Being purchased by TomTom.....
LBS Location Based Services. Mobile Smartphones will be used for 25% SatNav by 2010. 60% of 3G Smartphones will be GPS by 2010. Worldwide 16 million GPS-enabled Smartphones by 2010. Tele Atlas have a growing fleet of vehicles that are driving around the world, taking thousands of photographs of buildings and landmarks which with develop into 2D-3D visual imaging with future SatNav. Feedback road canges to them to update maps with new roads, flows etc.
For more information go to www.teleatlas.com
Insights into Mobile VoIP By Boaz Zilberman (Fring)
Voice-enabled IM going mobile. Mimicking users PC use of messaging, e.g. IM & Skype. FaceBook connectivity is planned. 
For more information go to www.fring.com.
Visa payWave
By ?, Visa.
Not strictly a Smartphone feature yet! but a very interesting evolution in payment technology.
New Visa cards will work like Oyster Card, e.g. wipe and pay technology.
Low value <£10 transactions. "Wave goodbye to cash".
NFC (Near Field Communication) to exchange data, is being developed by Visa in discussion with Nokia to enable a mobile to utilise the payWave technology.
"Youth and teenagers will demand and use mobiles to make payments in the future". "Visa Mobile, Cooler than cash". Target London 2012, a cashless Olympic Games!.
For more information go to www.visa.com

Day 2 - Morning
By David Wood, Symbian
Symbian and the perfect storm of convergence.
Worldwide Smartphone sales of 1 million in 2001, 145 million in 2007; forcast of 1+ billion by 2012.
1. Navigation systems, camera based recognition system.
2. Translation features, image/realtime voice streaming.
3. Usability - search based interfaces.
4. Content consumption and generation.
5. Universal remote controls - TV/DVD.
6. Local storage capacity. 100GB+.
For more information go to www.symbian.com.
By Mike Lazaridis, Founder & President RIM (Research In Motion)-Blackberry.
Desktop Email/PIM - Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes Domino, Novell Groupwise.
Also Voice Systems, Internet/Web Services, Real Time Collaboration.
Blackberry Connect seamlessly integrates into the Symbian OS.
TelNav (GPS/SatNav) Mapping and Navigation.
UK CAPS approval by CESG.
"In the future, all phones will be Smartphones".
For more information go to www.rim.com.

By Dohun Kwon, Samsung.
Smartphone Market: Symbian 67%!, Windows Mobile 14%, RIM 8%, Palm 5% and Other 6%. SHOW GRAPH. Symbian Smartphone owners use more of the device functionality than non-Symbian Smartphones.
SGH-i400 - Launched in Sept 2007. SGH-i550 Hi-Tech Internet device, SGH-i450 Hi-Tech Music device with new 'Sweep' user interfaces.
For more information go to www.samsung.com.

Day 2 - Afternoon
Symbian based solutions in a Microsoft Office World By Craig Schrauf (DataViz)
Documents to Go.
450 million MS Office users. 150 million using MS Outlook.
SharePoint!
For more information go to www.dataviz.com.
Blackberry Connect
The Blackberry Enterprise Server can configure handset(s), e.g. locking down features such as Infrared, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth; enabling the device to be used in secure/sensitive areas.
For more information go to www.rim.com.

Symbian Smartphone Show 2008
20th October
Earls Court, London

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