The phones are running hot at Pollenizer this week, not because we’re flogging Christmas specials, but because our latest clients are the team who’ve built messmo, an Australian mobile application. messmo is an interesting product because it lets users send free SMS messages to each other, send picture messages, send/receive email, update their Facebook status and more. It runs as a J2ME app, meaning it’ll run on a big cross-section of Java-enabled handsets, not just the latest and greatest. messmo seems like a lightweight, fast and practical way to stay in touch with friends and share media from a mobile.
At Pollenizer we like mobile products so much because there is so much potential growth in this space. There are plenty of best practices still to be agreed on in product development, customer acquisition and retention, distribution and data portability. All we know for sure is that the next generation of grownups will look at desktops like we look at mainframes — mobile devices are as essential to them as credit cards are to us. If you want to still be an online business in 10 years’ time, better get your mobile strategy right, or better still, begin the migration from desktop product company to mobile product company.
So we try to always keep one or more clients in this space, and with messmo, Bluepulse, mig33, Storyz and others all hailing from our golden soil girt by sea, it’s not too hard. Australia seems like an upcoming powerhouse in mobile application development. Download messmo today and let us know what you think about the product.