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Last week I had the chance to attend a big con­fer­ence, and i was sit­ting in front of hun­dreds of peo­ple look­ing at them while they were lis­ten­ing at the speakers.

I always use these events as oppor­tu­ni­ties to observe peo­ple, and what they do. I am not work­ing for a mobile telco oper­a­tor any­more but my pas­sion and love for mobile has not (yet) left me.

Every­body was sit­ting there in front of device screen. Lot of mobile phones, lot of tablets, few PCs.

And I was think­ing: wow, mobile is there, really!

Some of them were tak­ing pic­tures, oth­ers were record­ing the dif­fer­ent speak­ers, some were send­ing sta­tus updates to Twit­ter or Face­book, or just read­ing e-​mails dur­ing bor­ing talks.

I knew I had to make a very short com­ment on a keynote and I just decided to tell this peo­ple why I think mobile is so important.

Your mobile is always with you

Can you think of any other con­sumer elec­tron­ics device which spends more time with you? My mobile phone actu­ally is spend­ing with me much more time than my wife. Think about that, and real­ize that your user is there .

The user has time while in mobil­ity

Time is a scarce resource. Just think about the time you spend on your phone to kill time while wait­ing for something.

The mobile phone deliv­ers emo­tions

Isn’t that true? Think about it. Did you ever receive a mes­sage like this “Beat­rice is here! Both mom and baby are doing fine”, “I think we need a break. I’ll call you”, “We won the deal! great job”. Pos­i­tive or neg­a­tive, they are emotions.

Objects can now talk to your mobile phone

Today, more than ever in the past, object are able to talk with your mobile. Bar­codes, QR Code, NFC, pic­tures are just a few of the meth­ods the real world can use to con­nect with your phone. This is a new dimen­sion, and an impor­tant one.

You are always con­nected to the net

Well, ok, most of the times.

You mobile phone has many sen­sors

GPS, gyro­scope, cam­era, and micro­phone are just some of the many ways your phone can col­lect data from you and the envi­ron­ment around you.

Would you add some­thing to this list? Please, feel free to leave a com­ment if so.

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