Today, I just received an email by Nokia about the beta trial of MOSH Nokia. Being a registered member of Forum Nokia. I was intrigued by this invite and decided to pay a visit to the website.
Nokia MOSH is a new social networking initiative by Nokia launched in 2007 and seems to be Nokia’s way of bring social networking into the mobile space. With Nokia’s muscle behind this, I guess that they are slowly differentiating themselves from their competitors such as Sony Ericsson, Motorola and the iPhone.
I didn’t had time to play around with Nokia MOSH much after I’ve registered it and so, my opinions are based on my initial experience with it.
Nokia MOSH website seems to be catered for the ever growing social networking crowd and it has a mobile site where you can access the MOSH website on your handset(Nokia handset preferably). The site interface and layout looks pretty clean, but it lacks a certain sense of simplicity as all the content seems to be laid out on the screen for me and it gives a cluttered air to it. I browsed through the various content categories such as Images, Games etc and I noticed that there are already a few people uploading content onto Nokia MOSH.
So getting an audience does not seem like an issue, but the one major stumbling block for wireless data surfing is the price. With telcos still charging users using a per KB scheme. No amount of attraction would force users to forget the pain barrier of seeing their phone bill incur a charge of $300 due to surfing the net on their mobile phone. Internet surfing really took off when ISPs removed their per MB charge and changed to a flat fee model and the mobile space is not different.
Thankfully, some telcos are slowly seeing the changes on the horizon and slowly moving away from a per KB charge to a flat fee charge. So when per KB charge is more of the exception than the rule. One of the obstacle for mobile web surfers will be removed.
