telstra nerd moments
Allow me to get all nerdy for a second…
I always look forward to Telstra’s Investor Day. It’s the day where our CEO and other senior people brief the public and media about the year gone and what’s ahead. But for people like me, it usually always means something new and exciting in technology is launched. There were a couple of things this year… the upgrading of the Next G network and mobile broadband modems that are capable of 21Mbps are coming in 2009 and will be the fastest in the world. Very cool.
But what seemed a bit ho-hum was MyConnect – an intergrated unified messaging system. Similar in principle to Apple’s MobileMe. You get access to all your SMS and MMS etc online from your computer, and vice-versa, can get all your email on your handset. And it all syncs up. Quite cool, but nothing new and exciting.
The new and exciting bit was something that wasn’t actually announced yesterday I don’t think – but has appeared online on a non-Telstra site: Telstra revamps Windows Mobile. While there’s no direct link between the two, I am very certain they link up. It’s all part of our CEO’s “one touch, one click, etc” vision that he came up with a few years ago. But to have Telstra come up with a skin for Windows Mobile that intergrates all your email and instant messaging and even Facebook, is pretty awesome.
This is just another one of the things that I’m liking about Telstra. For years it was always following and relying on being the monopoly. But more and more often, finally, Telstra is being the leaders and coming up with new things first. And the fact that as of next year, Next G will be the fastest mobile network in the world, with even Japan trailing behind… that’s awesome.