Mobile Concerns

How you use your mobile to communicate is about to change radically. Gone are the days of just phone calls, sms and patchy video. The latest generation of mobile devices allow you to keep up to date with your friends on Facebook and Twitter, centralising all your communication in one place.

However, this presents its own set of challenges:

1. * How do you triage your contacts? Not all contacts are created equal;
2. * How do you consolidate your contacts across different services (Facebook, Twitter, even Xbox Live)? and;
3. * How do you synchronise and manage all of this communication with your contacts when this is now in the cloud?

No one seems to have cracked this yet. Motorola have MOTOBLUR to centralise all your communications. They will even back up the communications stream for you. Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 will integrate your Facebook contacts and your friends on Xbox Live. Unfortunately both cripple you with this all or nothing approach.

Hopefully, in the not too distance future we will start to see some smarts in how our mobiles manage our contacts and communication. Learning about those we contact most frequently, automatically matching the different personas of our friends across different services and prioritising the messages we are most interested in at any given point in time.

Has anyone with an iPad seen this rendering bug? It is most prominent in Safari, particularly when 3G network connectivity is poor and I am browsing between pages.