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You can now view the slides from my presentation on the upcoming Mobile Tsunami at Portland Web Innovators last week including an audio recording or presenter notes.

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If you would prefer presenter notes, you can find them on the SlideShare web site in the comments.

Thank you to Ryan Williams for inviting me to speak, Portland Web Innovators for organizing the event, Nemo Design for being such gracious hosts and for the free beer, and for the large number of people who took time the time to attend the presentation.

I wrote recently about how the number of mobile devices dwarfs all other media and how this staggering this statistic is. A recent study puts the number of mobile devices at 3.3 billion, up from the previous number of 2.7 billion. That is one mobile device for half of the world’s population.

Tomi T Ahonen provides some context on these new numbers:

• Growth is accelerating, not slowing down as many predicted
• 3.3 billion is the number of devices, not the number of people. Many people have more than one phone. Italy has a 140% subscriber rate. The number of people using mobile devices is 2.55 billion which means there is still room to grow.

Much like Tomi’s previous article, the real perspective comes from his comparison of the number of mobile devices (3.3 billion) to things we take for granted. For example. there are only 1.5 billion people in the world who have credit cards.