Eight Trends For A Mobile World

Ask Christian Lindholm to peer into the future of the mobile industry, and he'll dish out opinionated takes on topics ranging from beautiful phones to broken business models.

A 10-year veteran of Nokia's (Lindholm has done stints with its famed user interface group. He also directed Yahoo! ) mobile group from 2005 to 2007. These days, Lindholm heads London-based design consultancy Fjord.

At Fjord, Lindholm specializes in media projects that span the "three screens"--the TV, the PC and the cell phone. That includes projects for the BBC, Orange, a unit of France Telecom , and Vodafone , as well as for former employers Nokia and Yahoo!, where he is helping revamp Yahoo!'s Go mobile portal. His broad goal, Lindholm says, is just this: "simplifying digital complexity."

Lindholm recently spoke with Forbes.com about the eight mobile trends he's identified for 2008.

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