The Bumpy Road to Mobile Media Convergence

Industry participants and observers are looking for big things to happen in the smartphone space this year. A bevy of emergent technical standards and formats constrain the distribution of content that should be available to smartphone users -- for example, more and varied information, communication and entertainment "feeds." On the technology side of things, network speeds, routing management, data storage capacity, power usage and digital rights management all continue to hamper the industry.