The mobile portal

For about one year, there have been more mobile phones in Germany than inhabitants. Many people cannot imagine living without this mobile communication centre anymore. But the mobile phone's development is still in its infancy.

June 29, 2007 will go down in the history of technology. Finally, Apple CEO Steve Jobs launched the eagerly awaited iPhone. Never before had the lines in front of the shops been as long as on that day. But why make such a fuss about a couple of square centimeters of technology? Because the iPhone is not just a mobile phone, it eventually makes the mobile phone the linchpin of a mobile society.

Killer application every day life

"The mobile phone is more and more becoming an instrument for every day life," says Dr. Wolf Heine. "Soon people will say: By the way, you can use it for phone calls as well." This is what the T-Systems' traffic expert and his team are working on. Through convenient applications they want to make the mobile phone a companion for the mobile every day life. In the German city of Frankfurt, for example, bus and tram riders buy their ticket virtually without having to stop.

The ticket system is part of T-Systems' mobile portal through which mobile phone owners will, in the near future, handle several everyday things from on the way: buying a parking ticket, planning the trip downtown afterwards, paying the ticket, navigating through the city and making a last minute reservation at the movie theatre. "We are not looking for spectacular ideas. Through the mobile portal you should simply be able to take care of the things that accrue on the way," says Heine, believing that the mobile phone could soon replace wallet and debit card.