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Thomas Crampton talks about that Blackberries are more popular in Indonesia than iPhones, partly because of high internet costs.

- In India farmers can receive information about the current local market prices for goods in the surrounding towns so that they can make better decisions about where to sell their produce (via SMS)

- In parts of Africa mobile phones allow people who have never owned a bank account to save and to wireless transfer money (via SMS). Mobile phone credit can simply be used as money in shops – like a cash card. This is huge because it allows people to save money.

If this is a topic that interest you I recommend that you take a look at http://mobileactive.org/

However, I think there is a big difference between SMS-based services that can be established comparatively quickly and easily and wireless internet access through mobile phone. (I'm not techy enough to know what the difference, is but considering how difficult and expensive it can be to get wireless internet in Europe I assume it isn't that simple.)

I think (and hope) we will see a lot of new mobile phone based tools that can help people in developing countries. But I think that the kind of connection you'd need for cloud computing is still many years in the future unless a company like Google take a few billions and simply decided to do it, screw the ROI.

Did you watch the Google video that covered the "perfect storm" of platform convergence? What Google is predicting is that mobile phones and tablets are going to converge to mobile based platforms and be the primary access to the cloud. They are actually looking at the high use and sales of mobile during bad economic times.

Curious if you think that with mobile diving deep into Africa, this form of expansion is the most possible route? The new iteration plans for One Laptop Per Child is a tablet. So it would require "data plans" opening up. Hindering, helping or no difference in your opinion?