Seven weeks is a short time between major wireless tradeshows, and the US focus of the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas reduces further the volume of news one can expect, but nevertheless some interesting thoughts and reports came from those who attended.

I have compiled some major observations from the trade press and want to share them with you.   Please do comment on them – we hope to encourage reader interaction in our blogs!

The iPhone has revolutionized web browsing using wireless access, and although Apple's presence at the show was hardly overt, this has stimulated other manufacturers to meet the challenge, as Jan Dawson of Ovum describes here.

Antoine Wright, posted in Mobile Computing, discusses how the iPhone has created greater expectations in general for device usability.

The emergence of true internet browsing over wireless (with the iPhone and other devices that will be coming out) and the demand for it from the advertising business is creating pressure on the wireless internet - see this interesting piece by Paul Grim of VC firm Sunbridge Partners.

The Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Kevin Martin, announcing the FCC ruling against SKYPE, complimented the new "openness" of carriers - read Brad Reed's article in ComputerWorld. 

Chetan Sharma (reporting to the French website of Service Mobiles) points out that, however, openness depends on the point of view of the industry stakeholders involved.

Your thoughts? Conflicting views?