New study shows the wireless walled garden is obsolete

New research shows that younger people like to use use their mobile device as a second window into their online lives and personal computer. It’s not just the young. Go to any office park eatery at noon and you’ll see lots of smart phones and crackberries getting a workout from middle aged as well as youthful users.

A report from In-Stat points out that millennials, the generation aged 8 to 27, use their mobile phones to access their social networks wherever they are.

This is great news for a variety of companies attempting to bring PC content to the mobile. As content is pulled to mobile devices, publishers will pay to make sure it arrives in a readable format and quickly enough to satiate user demand, meaning content delivery networks, providers of transcoding services and services that render PC content accessible to mobile phones could benefit. (GigaOm)

Now, here’s an idea: Build devices to use an open pipe (Clearwire?). The open source handsets you will use have VPN capability, with VoIP and unified messaging. It all fits neatly only one screen with a single interface. If you have a Gmail account, you already unified messaging capabilities with single login. Just do a handset interface. No need to leave the “phone mode” and hop over to the “internet mode” or “text mode”. No trying to keep track of the various nickel and dime and dollar charges for each, you just rent the pipe and you use it for whatever app you like. It could happen in the next year on Wimax or something like it. If however, we rely only on AT&T and Verizon , it will only happen in time for the next generation to use it.