1. iMobileU Initiative Common Solutions Group

2. The State of Mobile Devices Fragmented Today and Tomorrow: – iPhone (still AT&T only) in the lead followed closely by BlackBerry (all U.S. carriers) – Android gaining momentum (T-Mobile & Sprint: HTC, Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc.) – Palm webOS also lurking (Pre & Pixi: Sprint + Verizon & AT&T (2010)) – “Premium Touch Phones” also gaining – Users expect mobile info on their devices without discrimination

3. Room for Improvement MIT Mobile Web Browser Detection: – Accommodate the popularity of non-WebKit “premium touch phone” browsers (e.g. BlackBerry Storm, Samsung Instinct, LG Dare, etc.) – Segregation of browser detection (mobi-service) Branching WebKit UI to accommodate Android, webOS and others in the future Improved UI for “premium touch phone” users Ability to serve data to native applications (api) More features and content type/data source

4. MIT Mobile 2.0 Browser Detection (mobi-service) Web Kit Generic Touch UI Norma l Computer Content Generator (api) People Directory Campus Map Shuttle Schedule Events Calendar Stellar (LMS) Student Careers Emerg. Info 3Down MIT LDAP Server MIT IMS Server NextBus MIT Events Server MIT Stellar Server Careers Office Emergen cy.mit.edu 3Down.mit.edu 4 iPhoneAndroidwebOS Tech CASH MIT Tech CASH DB Library MIT Libraries Mobile WebNative App

5. MIT Statistics May 2008 -> Sep 2009 517K page views over the last year

6. iPhone Native App (MIT Prototype) Developed with the help of student developers (< 6 weeks) Advantage Native: – Local Storage (e.g. campus map images) – Accelerometer (e.g. shake to refresh) – Push Notification (e.g. shuttle bus arrival notice, new class announcement notice) Open Source

7. iMobileU Activities We’ve been busy (sorry), but we want to work together on this -- not just share the work. Wiki, Mailing List, Conference Call https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/imobileu Potential opportunity to partner with other open source projects, e.g. FluidProject.org Let’s collaborate on developing application framework that can be customized for each member institution