• Duke Harvey said he could put me in touch with a RIM spinoff that's doing mobile work
• Somebody should contact the company that does SnapperMail^?: Snapperfish Ltd, New Zealand

Mobile survey, Calconnect

• Lots of Palm and Motorola users amongst survey respondants
• Lots of people with slow upgrade perios -- may be a non-representative sample
• People have unmet needs

Some of the discussion

• Mobile vendors are still very interested in proprietary protocols and services
• Mark Patterson suggested doing a vision/sell to OMA from Calconnect (as our Calconnect liaison relationship ought to allow Calconnect to send a presenter in April or sometime)
• Can we descibe a common vision?
  • Cyrus wants to be able to sit in his doctor's office and accept an invitation beamed from the reception's PC, and have it uploaded.
• Mark says that mobile providers have max message lengths and that application protocols need to be able to break up a response (e.g. response to a REPORT for this week's events) into smaller chunks. Is this tech FUD? Doesn't the transport layer do that?
• Chris suggests writing down use cases
• The use cases however are highly modal. Depending on the persona you pick, you'll find very different use cases.
• So far we've been hammering the business cases in our discussions with mobile vendors and ignoring the "teeenage girls" use cases
• Maybe Mimi/Priscilla can help identify interesting personas for mobile calendaring use cases?