Here are the highlights from my last week on Twitter. To see all of my tweets, please visit me on Twitter. (more…)

Here are my Twitter highlights over the last week. To see all of my tweets, please visit me on Twitter.

• Heading back to SF from London on Tuesday afternoon. It’s been a great trip! #
• @tomiahonen That’s interesting… Especially since they created MOTOMAGIX (sp?) & it didn’t last. Differentiating is tough on both HW & SW. in reply to tomiahonen #
• Check out these 3 great panels at #CTIA for #mobile #developers: 1) VC funding 2) Gaining Distribution 3) Monetizing http://ow.ly/1aOYF #
• Want a free pass to #CTIA Use the code “OMS4CTIA” & sign up for the Developer Pitch Sessions by Open Mobile Solutions: http://ow.ly/1aPEP #
• Daily traffic on SocializeMobilize.com nearly 1/2ed after #MWC10 My MWC party list was a hit! Trying to come up w/ a good replacement post. #
• Any developers out there looking for speaking opps at #CTIA If so, ping me. I’m looking developers with stories of mobile monetization. # (more…)

Here are the highlights from my Twitter stream last week:

• http://shozu.com/t/chi – I thought Barcelona was supposed to be warmer than SF…#mwc10 #
• http://shozu.com/t/chp – Microsoft is talking about Windows Phone 7 Series at #mwc10 I’m cautiously optimistic. # (more…)

Just in time for the start of Mobile World Congress, my domain provider imposed an arbitrary cap on my email limit, despite advertising ‘unlimited’ storage. Sigh.  The problem is now corrected, but if you sent me an email over the last 2 days, please re-send it.  Tech support tells me that emails that bounced are not recoverable. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Here are the business-related highlights of my Twitter feed over the last week.  To see all of the tweets, visit me on Twitter.

• Last call: Send me questions for #MWC10 panels I’m moderating 1st panel= VC investment in apps, 2nd= billing & payments http://ow.ly/15uPO #
• I like Lufthansa’s mobile boarding pass capability… Easy to use and saves paper. #
• @ronanhigg Good question/point. I wonder if VCs value native apps that don’t access device APIs > than browser-based apps… in reply to ronanhigg # (more…)

Here are a handful of my tweets from last week.  To read all of my updates, follow me: @lisawhelan on Twitter. (more…)

Last night, I attended Mobile Monday Silicon Valley networking and panel at the W Hotel in San Francisco, California, sponsored by Hi-Media.  The topic was “Virtual Goods and Micropayments on Mobile and Beyond.” The panel was moderated by Justin Smith – Founder of Inside Network, and the panelists were: Lex Bayer – General Manager Payments Business at Playspan, Doug Bewsher – CMO at Mig33, Mark Curtis – CEO of Flirtomatic, Steven Lurie – General Manager Mobile at Zynga, Pooj Preena – CEO of Hi-Media USA, and Roger Wood – CEO of Orca. (more…)

Yesterday, I attended the AT&T Developer Summit at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas.  It was one of the best mobile developer events I’ve attended in recent memory, not the least because AT&T shared some of it’s best announcements with mobile developers first… (more…)

I’ll be attending the AT&T Developer Summit on January 6th and the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 7-8 in Las Vegas Nevada.  I’ll also be attending the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona February 14-18, 2010.  If you’d like to meet me or need consulting help at or in advance of either show, please get in touch.

I recently swapped my Nokia E71 out for an unlocked Motorola CLIQ (running on AT&T).  I won the CLIQ at the recent MOTODEV Summit, and despite being excited to start using what looked like a great device, I was a little sad to give up my Nokia E71. Why? I like the E71 hardware a lot. It is billed as “the world’s thinnest smartphone,” and it is one of the best, most elegantly designed pieces of mobile hardware I’ve ever used.  Why did I switch? It’s not the hardware.  It’s the Symbian OS.  It may be the world’s most popular OS, but it’s also an old OS. When I compare the Symbian Series 60 use experience to to iPhone and Android it feels clunky, and using a Symbian powered phone in San Francisco made me feel old and achingly un-hip.  When using the E71, it took me too many clicks to get to where I want to go on the device, and the web browsing experience was mediocre at best.  Don’t get me wrong, I was excited to start using the CLIQ, but I wish it were as thin and elegantly designed as the Nokia E71.

All of this got me to thinking… Why doesn’t Nokia bite the bullet and give Android a whirl – even if only for one, very basic, smartphone?  Nokia knows hardware, and Google knows software.  It’d be a match made in heaven. (more…)