Many of us carry mobile phones these days. Even if we don’t need it for work, we are buying more smartphones and checking our emails and be in touch with friends while on the go, be it MySpace, Facebook, Email, SMS, etc. But the lack of quality, versatile applications for mobiles to provide access is somewhat limiting. Quite disappointing, especially if you splurged on a Windows Mobile Professional, Smartphone or Blackberry device.

Yahoo! currently has a beta service which is a cool little app that installs on your device and you have access to your Yahoo! Mail, weather alerts, Flickr, News and more. They even have a cool little feature that lists the Traffic issues and what happened, when it happened, giving you a good idea of how bad the traffic maybe, and or how much longer the delay may be. The idea and functionality behind the app is brilliant.

Microsoft also offers something slightly similiar, but only on Windows Mobile devices. It’s called Windows Live. You can connect to your MSN messenger, Sync your contacts over-the-air(OTA) with your hotmail account, and the best part, PUSH EMAIL from your hotmail account! All for free!

Obviously, by virtue of being here, I am a Google Fan. I love Google maps, I think the Gmail App is amazing (save the fact it won’t let me log into my Google Apps Email even though gmail.com on my mobile will), and their Google Mobile Web is fantastic as well. The catch is, there isn’t a single place to go to on your device to access your Gmail, check out maps, when you do (at least in Austin) the traffic display isn’t near accurate or easy to read, or search the web.

So I am here to Challenge Google to create a Mobile App for the people. Lets start with a simple app that links all of your current Google Mobile applications, Maps, Gmail, Web, You Tube(big hit by the way). Then lets push the bounds a little and offer a smoother traffic interface (that you might actually be able to use while in traffic), expand the Gmail application to access the Google Apps Email for Domains, then if you could add Push email for Gmail to devices (especially for Windows Mobile) that would be a huge move ahead of both Yahoo! and Microsoft.