Earlier this week, Josh Constine wrote an epic piece on Facebook, Google and Apple’s impending messaging war. As Constine explains, we have most likely reached “peak SMS,” that is, text messaging is on the decline and another form of messaging will take its place. But as the major empires wage total war for glorious messaging spoils, there are far smaller, distant tribes that will make their own windfall of riches from the battle

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Editor’s note: Jack Krawczyk is Senior Product Marketing Manager at StumbleUpon, the discovery platform. Jack was a founding member of Google+ and tweets about stuff @ JackK .

Short Version Does bigger always mean better? It depends on who you ask of course, but more than a few major smartphone manufacturers would probably say yes

Editor’s note:  Lee Jacobs is founder of  Colingo – An English learning service focused on Brazil.  Sometimes his alter ego Mr. Lee gives English lessons on Youtube, check out a recent one on “drinking words”  here . I have spent a lot of time in Brazil, working on my startup Colingo , about a month ago I was in Sao Paulo for Dave McClure ’s Geeks on A Plane

Nokia’s troubles today will be all but forgotten come next year, according to Richard Kerris, Nokia’s global head of developer relations. By spring, he said during an interview in Sydney, Australia earlier today, people won’t talk about the problems the company is having now

Editor’s note:   Dan Schawbel is the managing partner of Millennial Branding , a Gen Y research and management consulting firm. He is also the #1 international bestselling author of Me 2.0 and was named to the Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 list in 2010

What kind of person clicks on ads?

One of the more innovative moves in mobile commerce has been the rise of services like Square , PayPal’s Here , iZettle , Payleven , and mPowa , which are based around using a dongle to turn a smartphone into a payment processor. Now Prizm Payments , an India-based payments company, is eyeing up how to bring that concept to its home market’s 670 million+ mobile subscribers, by offering a similar service that will work not just with smartphones, but with the feature phones as well

Editor’s note: Brad Spirrison is the Managing Editor of mobile app discovery services Appolicious , AndroidApps.com (which includes the Appolicious Android App ) and AppVee . This is his third year of writing a semi-annual TechCrunch post on top mobile apps.  Halfway into 2012, there are now more than 1.2 million mobile applications available to download to iOS and Android devices