Nokia.. Nokia

And
no, it is not about the N900. Which does not mean that I am not excited
about the phone. An open source phone, made by the biggest supply chain
owner in the world. Can you imagine the fun we are going to have now?
The applications that are going to be developed. This is going to be a
game changing device.

But, I am more excited
about Nokia getting into money transactions. This is going to be as
game changing as sms was so many years back.

But
more importantly, it is going to allow people to send money back home
is a safe and easy way, not falling into the trecherous interest rates
of your local moneygram guy. It is going to change the way the villages
in Asia and Africa sell and buy. It is going to influence the
purchasing habits of the young kids who grow up with mobile phones and
their grand mothers who learnt how to use a mobile phone so that they
can keep in touch with their extended and far away family. It is going
to change the way people handle money.

And that is an amazing, gobsmacking thing to do.

I
cannot wait to see how this service is going to be rolled out, and how
it changes the way we handle money. I just hope everyone think big and
think global. Making it affordable for a daily laborer in India and a
sharecropper in Namibia.