Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

Last Thursday I had a meeting that got pushed back an hour so I thought who’s close by, well Ken Rutkowski only lives a few blocks away so I thought I’d text him.  He calls me right back after he gets my text and says, “Aren’t you coming to San Diego for GadgetFest today?”.  That’s how my day went from standard to the other end of the spectrum in 1 minute.  I had to rearrange the rest of my day, grab some clothes for the event and get down there, but before that I still had to wait for my meeting.  Anyways, I get to the Qualcomm campus and so starts GadgetFest.

I saw some amazing new battlefield medical technology and played with the newest and unreleased Nokia, Motorola, and LG handsets in the tent outside.  After some appetizers and a beer it was time to go inside for the main event.  There were 7 companies in a competition with 4 judges and the audience to vote for the winner.  I didn’t get the names of all the companies but the winner is a friend of mine, Tom Carter from Truphone.  Their new service is still under embargo so I can’t write about it here…

I will give you a hint, “It” works on a very popular business centric set of handsets.

All the companies submissions were interesting but far and away Truphone was the best and LG had the best presenter.

After the presentation and awards there was a wine reception followed by a VIP dinner that I was graciously invited to, thanks Ken.

I met more high power execs in one night then I do in most months.  It was a pleasure to meet Rory Moore the president of CommNexus and Michael Robertson the founder of MP3.com and Gizmo (the VOIP and SMS giant).  I met many more people but I’m mobile as I’m writing this and don’t have their business

That’s all for now, I have to run.  More news about Truphone on Monday.