Carlo Longino’s predictions:
1. Apple won’t grow organic market share by much.
2. Android won’t match the hype.
3. Ad-supported content will continue to grow, but there will be some friction as operators figure out how to insert themselves in the experience.
4. The 700 MHz auction in the US will toss up an interesting license holder.
5. Smartphone sales won’t accelerate much, as existing users get fed up with poor usability, and featurephones get smarter.
6. Euro 2008 and the Summer Olympics in Beijing will generate a decent amount of interest in mobile TV, but that interest won’t be sustained.
7. Handset vendors will pay more attention, both lip service and real, to environmental issues.
8. Embedded radios in consumer electronics will become much more commonplace.
9. Operators will wake up to the threat of IM and push e-mail to their messaging revenues.
10. “Open” will dominate the discussion in 2008.
Russell Buckley’s predictions:
1. Privacy
2. 2008 is the Year of the Mobile Web
3. 3.5 Billion Phones
4. First Projection Phones Launched
5. A Government Will Fall Because of Mobiles
6. Explosion of Third Party IM
7. Mobile Video Take Off
8. Mobile as Digital Mouse
9. Battle Over MoSoSo
10. A Tricky Year for Podcasting
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