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This week, Volker on Mobile hosts Carnival #193. Volker Hirsch writes, "We have an abundance of variety, showing how incredibly diverse this "little" niche has already become." Blogs include: general market overviews, novel handsets, subscription services, mobile learning, how smartphones will look and a WIPJam interview with Lauren Thorpe, the Sr Director, Developer Relations at Qualcomm. Qualcomm is a Developer's Choice sponsor of WIPJam @ CTIA, a Day for Developers, taking place on October 8th in San Diego.

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Leading up to our WIPJam Session on October 8 @ CTIA in San Diego, we have asked Lauren Thorpe, Senior Director, Developer Relations, Qualcomm Incorporated, a series of questions regarding the mobile industry. Lauren is part of the first WIPJam UnPanel taking place @ 11:15 am.

You're a veteran in the mobile industry having been with MForma, Helio, THQ and now Qualcomm. What's the biggest change you've seen in the industry as a whole?

Finally people are looking at and "touching" their devices rather than just holding them up to their ear. For years I would travel around and observe people while they waited in airports and train stations, desperately trying to find someone who was a potential customer; someone who was playing a game or using an application on their device (other than email, of course). In the early days, while trying to pull marketing materials together there weren't even any stock photos of people doing things other than talking on a mobile phone. The biggest...

At this stage if you have missed OSIM / WIPJam… there is no consolation other than reading the #osim tweets or consulting some of the great summaries written on the subject, and to quote just a few see the links at the bottom of this post, with hopefully more links from you soon…

A lot of OSIM summaries but no WIPJam summary so far which this post sets to correct… with a quick overview of the 2 unpanels.

This should be followed by a short series of posting summarizing the various discussion groups…

Open services architectures

Open Source is all about community and developers… and sometimes developer communities (*)… And thus they should be a key part of Open Source in Mobile ! That's why we partnered with Informa to bring WIPJam to OSIM, invite developers to participate for free, and have a bit of collaborative thinking and exchange during the day!

Our first unpanel focussed on openness and all its variants… The session covered a lot…

• Operators struggling to be as opened as they...

A veteran of the Carnival of the Mobilists, C. Enrique Ortiz of About Mobility hosts #192. He reviews many great entries from mobile bloggers. He has included our WIPJam post by a guest Mitch Oliver, vice president of ecosystem development for Qualcomm. Here Mitch writes You're on an app store; now what? – a good background on App Stores, current issues, scenarios and thoughts. Qualcomm is a Developer's Choice sponsor of our WIPJam @ CTIA on October 8, 2009.

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We've asked our speakers and sponsors to provide some blog fodder as a lead up to our WIPJam Session on October 8 @ CTIA in San Diego!

The following is brought to you by Mitch Oliver, vice president of ecosystem development for Qualcomm.

Although the mobile applications market has been evolving since 2001, the year Qualcomm launched one of the first app stores with BREW, the pace of innovation has picked up significantly over the past two years. Following the launch of the iPhone 3G in 2008, with which Apple became the poster-child for the modern day "App Store", there has been a proliferation of market channels for mobile apps.

This competition for attention appears to be paying dividends for developers. Industry efforts to improve the quality of tools, lower the cost of testing and certification, speed time to market, and (most importantly) promote these solutions to consumers have resulted in an explosion of applications. While a catalog of several hundred applications used to...

New host Phil Barrett at BurningTheBacon.com sets up Carnival of the Mobilists #191 around Mobile in Canada, mixing great mobile posts with his insights into the jelling Canadian mobile scene. This week includes the article Does Technology Connection Mean Life Disconnection? Dr. Jim Taylor shares his thoughts on the topic which really goes beyond mobile and makes you consider the broader impact and implications of technology on our lives.

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I was reminded about the birth of the Mobilists this week due to an inquiry from a new participant, who I passed along to Judy Breck the Volunteer Coordinator who said:

"Carnival of the Mobilists is an informal project among people who blog about mobile. It was started over 3 years ago by Russell Buckley. I am the volunteer coordinator. This is the About page on the Carnival website: http://mobili.st/?page_id=2

As the page says: "Send your entry to: mobilists@gmail.com. All participants writing about mobile are welcome – you don't need a special invitation."

So there's the key – Anyone who writes/blogs about anything mobile are welcome. So what are you waiting for? It's a great way to get your site and your ideas in front of an expanded crowd. I have to say, the submissions this week were initally light – not in terms of content – but in numbers. So I pinged and tweeted a few friends, who kindly whipped their submissions quickly into shape.

Here's a challenge for next week...

With only 10 days to go before the WIPJam at OSIM I'm all too busy polishing my best trainers for the event to think about anything else… but making sure that the event will be as interesting and entertaining as possible to all! Call it the stress of the organizer… So in need for reassurance I gathered a few of the hot topics of mobile development today that should spice up our conversation.

Open is the new closed writes Andreas Constantinou from VisionMobile hi-lighting the fact that nowadays everyone claims to be open if not open source. But then adds that we'd better become informed shopper when it comes to openness and stop believing the "Wash whiter than snow" blanket statements coming from various open source and open projects in mobile. This is just what our first unpanel will set-out to do! With 4 representatives from various projects, Symbian Foundation, Access for Limo, Eclipse Foundation, and Motorola for OHA, joined by an operator (Eplus) and a long time open sourcer...