Smarter UIs, More Powerful Networks Drive Mobile Messaging Improvements
by Russell Shaw
Remember when mobile messaging was clunky?
I know I do. Messages that would show up hours late, exhibit “garbage characters,” and were lacking any visual enhancements except for a tacky smiley face.
Just as bad, you couldn’t attach files, there was no multimedia compliance, no in-program autosave, no bundled-in voice, no spell-checker.
That scenario and its accompanying notions have become so outdated.
How? Partisans of various mobile messaging utilities attribute today’s enhanced messaging services as the inevitable result of what we’ve learned doesn’t work in mobile messaging software User Interfaces and functionality. So, in other words, mobile messaging developers have gotten better at what they do, and are smarter in terms of incorporating these features into successive generations of mobile messaging software.
More tech-y network types will attribute today’s more efficient mobile messaging solutions to tech improvements- better handsets with more powerful chipsets driven by the inevitabilities of Moore’s Law, faster broadband wireless networks, etc.
Vincent Kadar, Chief Technology Officer, Airwide Solutions, sees special merit in the tech-improvement argument.
“Today’s networks are much more efficient, coverage in most regions is very complete, and handsets and networks have greater interoperability,” Kadar notes. As a result, more than 80 percent of text messages are received by the intended subscriber on the first attempt. This improved environment means operators need less storage capacity for undelivered messages.”
Kadar is also in tribute mode about the improvements mobile messaging carriers have undertaken.
“The telco computing environment has also followed Moore’s Law providing greater computing capabilities and capacities that provide more and better features than five years ago,” Kadar notes. “Therefore, messaging platforms can now be componentized into access and delivery, storage, control, and application – permitting each to be scaled based upon the performance needed. This transition enables operators to reduce operating expenses and capital expenses.”
