Welcome to "mobisocial" and the new smart phones of the future.

Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory at Stanford University is developing this open-source mobile social media future with support from the National Science Foundation, Google, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and AVG.

They have created a suite of applications such as anytime-anywhere communications with friends, making purchases, transferring contact info, video and photo sharing.

These new smart phones would be operating independent of proprietary social networks and will be open-source to foster innovative uses while protecting personal data security.

These mobile devices could become the must have gadgets for users that want the best smart phone for interacting and sharing outside proprietary social networks.

Current social networking providers are closed networks and they often own your content posted to their servers. The content can also be searched, analyzed and used for advertising purposes.

MobiSocial platform will be based on widely adopted email technology, where providers and open standards have privacy of content and non-sharing with third parties.