I just got back from CTIA Wireless 2009 last week.  CTIA is the International Association for the Wireless Telecommunications Industry.  So what does that mean to you if you don’t work in the industry?  Well, it’s a chance to see what is going on the industry and what types of focus you’ll see out of providers throughout the 2009 calendar year.  We always send at least one person from MacroSolve to the show.  I was already traveling to see some of our partners last week so it was natural for me to stop in and see what was up.

I always find the show interesting, not for specific products or technologies that are displayed, but for the trends you can see if you just pay a little attention.  Since it’s been a couple of weeks since I posted, I thought I would write up a series of posts on some of the more interesting things I saw.

Let’s start it out with one of the coolest gadgets I have seen in a long time.  Any of you remember the Dick Tracy watch?  Well, it is alive and well in a new product from LG.  Take a look at the video below if you’d like to see more about it.  In a nutshell, it is a small, but very functional watch phone.  It has a full color touch screen, a speaker phone, MP3 player…the works.  It was actually announced at CES in January, but this was my first time to see it in person.

We focus on mobility in business in this blog, so why am I bringing the watch phone up here?  Obviously it’s a really cool device, but how does it apply to business?  I’m not sure it does apply specifically to business, but there is a reason for mentioning it.  That reason is miniaturization.  The more cellular, and related technologies shrink, the more pervasive they will became in devices other than just cell phones.  Check back in over the next day or so, and I’ll have some observations on how businesses will be impacted by cellular technologies making their way into a realm known as Machine to Machine.  Miniaturization is just one trend that is enabling the Machine to Machine world.