By Senior Editor – Kris Smith

Maybe simply doing R&D but you need to be doing something about it now!

I just finished reading a great post by Jorge Escobar on JungleG, “Mobile is About to Explode, Is Your Startup Braced?”

He strikes some important chords with this post and asks how you will deal with handling more traffic, from more devices, on more platforms?

Last week I touched on this a bit but more from the perspective of making your blogging administration interface mobile and to think creatively about solutions to blog on the go.

I’ve included a quote from Jorge’s post by the CFO at Google that can stress the point that not only do you need to be mobile with your admin but your sites and applications need to be mobile ready,

On a quarter over quarter basis, mobile searches grew 30% on Google. It tells you something about the mobile space, the smartphones, and how they are transformative. They are basically transforming how people live on a mobile basis. If we move forward the adoption of these mobile phones by lowering the cost because it is open source, think of how many searches that will produce.

The mobile space is much larger globally than the traditionally connected world. So much so that mobile adoption is 10 to 1 over. That’s a pretty impressive difference when you consider the amount of focus that is paid to non-mobile application and web development.

I agree that Google’s offering, Android, as an open source platform will spurr the growth of low cost devices. But two great hurdles still exist in delivering an experience that users will adopt into into their everyday behaviors: the networks and form factors.

Network wise, the 4G’s are coming but are lagging behind and full rollouts don’t appear to be coming until 2012. Verizon will be joining Sprint with limited LTE coverage in 2010.

And as for form factors, well, walk into any carrier’s store and pick up any other handset than an iPhone and you will magically be transported back to 2007. The entire field of competitors are based on previous models, small screens, arcane platforms and graphics as good as Dig Dug.

I have high hopes that the Motorola Droid will become a competitor to the iPhone. Though, I did have high hopes for the Nokia N97. It’s a killer platform, great camera and QWERTY keyboard. But it is crippled by an underperforming processor and an even slower operating system. We’ll see what the Droid has to offer.

In the meantime, get to work on your mobile products . . . your competitors are.

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