Geoff Varall from RTT Online told Tapio Anttila:

... I would say the big shift that is happening is capture bandwidth and a big improvement in image, video and audio capture quality in next generation camera and camcorder phones. This gives Hollywood access to broadcast quality subscriber generated content for repackaging and redistribution. In terms of mobile storage, I think we can assume at the present rate of progress that a mid tier phone will have 40 gigabytes of storage within 5 years and Hollywood could develop their delivery plans on this basis.

Compare with:
Telcos have been banking on mobile content
Converged lifestyle with data-intensive usage
The future of mobile content: the end-user as sales channel

Maybe the japanese story can not be repeated, not even by Vodafone. At least Tapio Anttila thinks so:

CTIA (see also: CTIA) will transform in the future increasingly into a B2B industry show, serving consumer-facing verticals as the dreams of the carriers about becoming media companies gradually fade. Branded services and MVNOs will become the obvious choice for grabbing the attention of the consumer, just like fast-food chains and cappuccino-cafes populated the streets of East Berlin after the iron curtain fell.

Taken from «MEOW! Mobile Entertainment Opportunity Watch» Newsletter

The Coming Mobile-Video Deluge is talking about Qualcomm's MediaFLO project

Even with just a chunk of the market, MediaFLO, due to launch in October, 2006, could be lucrative for Qualcomm in the coming years. Qualcomm is mum on its pricing plans. But even if it charges only $1 a month per subscriber, that could add up to more than $120 million in revenue in 2007 alone. Qualcomm has announced plans to spin off the MediaFLO business into a separate company once it's established.

Businessweek sees mobile video taking off in the US. Maybe it needs a TV nation to go directly from voice to TV bypassing text messaging altogether.

Mobile video is set to take the wireless industry by storm (see BW Online, 12/1/04 "TV Phones Prep for Prime Time"). The U.S. mobile video user base may balloon to more than 20 million by the end of 2007, up from less than 1 million today, says Albert Lin, an analyst at American Technology Research (ATR). Assuming each subscriber pays $5 a month for such services, that would translate to a $1.2 billion market.

PC's a thing of the past? Mobile devices the future...

"The majority of the applications that will drive the next wave of innovation will be services, not applications that run on the desktop. The real innovation is occurring in the network and the network services," Jonathan Schwartz said.

Not related:
Cosmobilities Network

Mologogo

Mologogo is a free service that will track a "friends" GPS enabled cell phone from another phone(gps not required) or on the web.

Mologogo is totally "alpha" right now, but improving rapidly. It is was built as a Web 2.0 app, so expect integration with sites like Flickr, Upcoming.org, Judy's book, and lots more RubyOnRails/AJAX-y goodness added to our UI. And with our soon to be released API, you'll be able to access your own location data in other sites.

Update: 12.10.05
Now they have a Wiki too!