Plastic Mobile Agency is heading down to #CTIA09

The gang from Plastic Mobile Agency is heading from Toronto, Ontario over to  a warmer climate to the CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association) 2009 conference in the fabulous Las Vegas. We covered it from a high-level in our post here but the true coverage will commence once we’re on the ground. We plan to bring you live updates to our blog here and be the first to report the many exciting findings.

Some early rumors of what maybe releasing include:

1. Skype for the iPhone
2. BlackBerry App World
3. BlackBerry TV
4. HTC Maple
5. More info on Palm Pre pricing

Be sure to be tuned to both our blog and Twitter for updates as some of these rumors become reality.

Here are the events that we will make sure to cover:

1. Day one Keynote Sessions – We look forward to hearing from both Al Gore and Mike Lazaridis
2. Exhibit Floors on all days to see all the exciting showcase of products and technologies
3. NXT Stage Mobile Entertainment Festival
4. Date 2 Keynotes
5. eWEEK – Healthcare IT and Wireless
6. WIP – Mobile Jam Session – More info on the Jam session found here
7. Mobility means Business
8. Day 3 Keynotes
9. NFC / Mobile Payments

Stay tuned right here for live updates.

CTIA Wireless 2009 event is one of the most global mobile events that takes place in Las Vegas this between April 1- April 3.   The event will be filled many people from different . The event is the convergence of more than 1,000 exhibiting companies, dozens of industries, and over 40,000 professionals from 125 countries all working toward the common goal of revolutionizing wireless.

The even attracts from  many domains:

• Application/Software Developers & Providers
• CLECs & LECs
• Consultants
• Content Providers/Aggregators
• Dealers/Retailers
• Distributors/Resellers/VARs
• Engineers
• Enterprise/Corporate/SOHO End-Users
• Entertainment
• Field Sales & Service
• Internet Service Providers – ISPs
• Manufacturers
• OEMs
• System Integrators
• Wireless Service Providers (Narrow/ Broadband PCS, Cellular, CDPD, ESMR)

KeyNote Sessions will include:

1. Steve Largent(President & CEO CTIA–The Wireless Association
2. Robert Dotson (2009 CTIA Chairman, President & CEO,T-Mobile USA )
3. Mike Lazaridis (President & Co-Chief Executive Officer, Research In Motion)
4. Ivan Seidenberg (Chairman & CEO, Verizon Communications
5. Robert Bach (President, Entertainment & Devices Division Microsoft Corporation
6. Benjamin Wolff (Co-Chairman, Clearwire Corporation)
7. Eric J. Topol, M.D. (Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute, Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health)
8. The honorable AL GORE (45th Vice President of the United States)

The speaker all look very interesting and we (Plastic Mobile Agency) are looking forward to this great event that allows the world to come together and share mobile innovation.

See you all there!

- Melody Adhami

According to BusinessWeek, it looks BlackBerry App World might be launching at the CTIA 09 next week on April 1st. Plastic will be at CTIA 09 in Vegas and it’s going to be very interesting to see what RIM will be bringing forth for both developers and consumers.  As a consumer, we hope to see apps that are rich with functionality and have a well-designed mobile user experiences – things that we’ve become used to thanks to the iPhone.

As a developer, we hope to see a better development arena (IDEs, debugging tools, frameworks, etc.). At Plastic, we develop mobile applications for many platforms (iPhone, Andriod, Windows Mobile, …) and by-far we put the most effort (man-power) on our BlackBerry projects. For instance, comparing development for the BlackBerry vs. iPhone… we see a multiple of 3-4 times the effort needed. I hope RIM is listening and catch up to Apple and other developer-friendlier platforms.