Carnival of Mobilists #221
This week's carnival #221is brought to us by newcomer Holly Kolman at mobiEnthusiast.mobi. Keeping with carnival tradition, there are many great submissions. Are service providers ready for the smartphone revolution? and So Many Devices, So Little Time are two articles looking at different sides of the same issue: people who buy smartphones and don’t know how to use them, and the difficulty companies have in supporting smartphone users in their call centers. Andy Favell of mobiThinking.com gives us the numbers on mobile this week: Global mobile stats: all latest quality research on mobile Web and marketing in one place. Ajit Jaokar of Open Gardens writes about a new OS from Japan. Read more at Good news for Japan but bad news for LiMo? Japanese phone makers to develop new operating system AND open it to the world.