Simeon Oriko is a student at University of Eastern Africa – Baraton, and today he is talking about the Mobile Cloud Computing paradigm. He starts by saying that web experience cannot be superimposed on mobile phones. It can be terribly frustrating to find information using mobiles. For rural areas where he often does IT outreach to students at schools… if the information they need to fulfill their dreams is available online, and the students do not have computer access; they should still be able to find that information through mobiles. There is a long way to go.
He goes through the 4 problems of mobile web.
- Storage in mobiles is paltry
- Flaky connections particularly in rural areas
- Small display screens (I should also add differing display screens. @cellstories had to deal with this when the Droid came out)
- Flaky browsers. So many to choose from, optimized for different devices.

Solutions
- Put the processing in the cloud. Think Amazon EC2. Put the storage there too so the mobile acts as a dumb terminal of sorts. Storage space on[...]

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