"Motionized(tm) has been designed from the ground up as an software only motion detection library, enabling full new UI implementations...By using the movement of the handset to enable users to browse menus, pan and zoom within images, navigate web pages or play games, the Motionized handset introduces a breakthrough in user experience."

Interesting tech - it uses the phone's camera as an accelerometer and more essentially, making the phone aware of any motion affecting it. Although, is this just a stop-gap until phones have accelerometers built-in?

"Co founded by, Alex Macpherson, Brad Down, Tim Murray, in 2007, BeamMe.Info is a web platform that allows website owners to add a Send to Mobile button alongside relevant and valuable content their visitors/users might be looking for... Rather than printing it out or writing it down, its a simple click and send function that sends the required info to your phone via SMS."

Simple idea, but very neat. I still haven't come across a website using this yet, but I can see it being very useful for a lot of things, e.g. addresses, times, phone numbers etc.

"Today Apple demoed the iPhone 2.0 software beta, an important milestone in the iPhone's evolution because it will allow third-party apps to run on the device without any hacks. Version 2.0 will be available in June, and apps will be distributed by Apple via a new App Store...The other big news is Apple's decision to tap Microsoft to bring push email to the iPhone."

Nothing really unexpected. So when are we going to see something comparable, or are we not going to until it's too late?

"Ribbit, which is still in beta testing phase and set to launch in the coming months, is headed up by Silicon Valley tech veterans who plan to load their phone service with applications previously unavailable from a single phone network. Instead of simply displaying a caller ID, for example, Ribbit will create a mashup of relevant information culled from social networks like Twitter and Facebook, revealing what the caller is currently doing/reading/watching."

This is pretty neat, kind of like half-way between now and complete web integration on our phones. When will we get complete integration? Please....

"The Redfly Mobile Companion from Celio is a mini notebook-size device that effectively serves as a hand- and eye-friendly shell for Windows Mobile smartphones. It has a larger, relatively standard keyboard so you don't have to thumb type and an LCD screen measuring eight inches in diameter. Connect the Redfly to the smartphone and the data going to and from the phone shows up on the larger screen instead." More - http://www.celiocorp.com/products.php

Looks like another company had Palm's Foleo idea. Not quite sure about the graphics, but I reckon it's a market to be tapped - pretty useful things if done right.

"Expansys Hong Kong also unveiled more details about the upcoming MWG Zinc II which is another brand new Windows Mobile 6 Professional smartphone from Mobile Wireless Group (MWG). Based on a Samsung ARM CPU at 500 MHz, the Zinc II also supports quadband GSM/GPRS and triband UMTS/HSDPA up to 3.6 Mbps as well as WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, a SiRF Star III GPS receiver and an FM radio with RDS."

Looks like a pretty neat phone; nicely specced too. Battery life is always a concern, and WM61 I'm not that sure about, but seems like the best up-and-coming phone so far this year for me.

"Users of Telstra's high-speed Next G phone network will soon be able to download concert tickets and other content directly to their phones by scanning special barcodes on billboards and other advertisements... All they need do is photograph a barcode, which can be on any surface - from billboards and computer screens to bottles and T-shirts."

About time, but Telstra only? Yeh sure, because the cool kids are all on Telstra right?

"The next session from Brian was really an overview of the mobile market not necessarily addressing the issues about designing a mobile web. What he was clear on is the the market is far more fragmented in browsers than the desktop ever was and you will never be able to design for them all with the current lack of standards."

Great list of things about mobiles, where they're going, and their pitfalls.