FUTURE: The Great Mobile Trend

Update: HP has just notified us that the winner of the laptop (below) must be a Singapore resident I can hear your groans because I would feel the same too. Nonetheless, please feel free to comment .

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If you ask me what I envision the future to be, I would say mobile.

Some of you might share the same vision, but what opportunities lie ahead is something that  I’m particularly interested in.

Before we get too engrossed in the guessing game, let’s see what hints past events in the mobile industry have left us.

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1. The iPhone Explosion

Apple rocked the mobile industry with the introduction of the iPhone. Since then, its market share has seen amazing growth. It is not the first smartphone, but it’s revolutionary – thanks to its massive number of applications that are highly customizable to suit everyone’s needs. There is an app for almost anything.

That probably shook giant mobile makers, Nokia, Samsung, and HTC back to reality. The iPhone technology was at least 5 years more advance than what the world had back in 2007. Many great entrepreneurs saw the opportunity to ride on the iPhone wave. Tapulous is a good example; the amount of revenue generated by it was astonishing.

2. Widespread Smartphone adoption

Nokia has reacted to the iPhone rave via lawsuits, BlackBerry came out with its own BlackBerry Appworld, and Motorola with its Droid (remember the iDon’t campaign?) Most recently, we saw Google’s Nexus One’s potential of becoming iPhone’s strongest competition yet.