Based on a projected addressable market of well over 400 million units (media phones) and a multi-million pre-existing netbook user base, it would be crazy for software developers to ignore the potential of Moblin, the Intel Atom Developer Program and App-store. Despite that, Intel want to give you even more reason to start early. They are giving away 100 netbooks!

I’m just a few posts away from completing my Intel Developer Forum 2009 related work now and it’s time to round-up and summarize the news and to try and work out what it means for 2010 and 2011. Power-gating, Mobiln 2.1 and the App Store are just three very important elements but for the full overview, check out an article I’ve just posted at UMPCPortal which goes over everything I learned.

You may have already seen the video from IDF where Moblin 2.1 for handhelds was announced and seen the demonstration of Moblin 2.0 on Moorestown but in addition to that we were give a sneak peek at Moblin 2.1 for handhelds running on a (Menlow demonstration) platform. Pankaj Kedia from the Ultra Mobility Group also answers questions about the platform.

Xavier Lanier (GottaBeMobile),  Sascha Pallenberg (Netbooknews.com) and I sat down in the final hours of the Intel Developer Forum to talk about what we’d seen in the mobile space. In this video we talk about Moblin and the…

Even if you couldn’t get to IDF in San Francisco last week you still have a chance to learn all about the mind-blowing technology that was covered at a very technical level. From cars to TV’s, MIDs to desktops, laptops to smartphones, there’s a huge range of markets that Intel addresses and for each segment there was at least one technical session at IDF. If you’ve got any interest in any of these areas (that leaves about 0.5% of you that landed on this by accident when searching for towns in the U.S. beginning with the letter M) you need to dive into some of the amazing content that’s been made available.

Here’s a video presentation of three versions of the Linpus netbook distribution based on Moblin 2.0. two of the distributions shown will be available for download in a few weeks.

Spotted in a technical session yesterday, this is a live demo of a working Moorestown MID with a capacative touchscreen running Moblin 2 and a UI developed by Wind River. The device is the Inventec ‘MediaPhone’ seen at Computex…

The core of IDF 2009 for me has been all about Moblin rather than hardware technology this year. It has been great to hear about (and see) Moblin V2.1 for handhelds and i’m also excited to see that Intel…

There’s a huge amount of information to digest around the announcement of the Intel Atom Development Program, or app-store but at a special lunch meeting with some of the key people in the IADP team I managed to refine…

Here’s the new Viliv S10 ‘Blade’ convertible touchscreen netbook.

Great build quality and looks. Certainly better than my Gigabyte Touchnote!

Available before the end of the year.

There are a number of companies lined up here to present their software and solutions. 4.5 mins per company.

I’ll try and summarise each one here.

1. Navteq

Digital map data provider promoting their developers network. Free…

I saw a prototype of the S10 at Computex this year and have been clutching a set of photo’s ever since. At the showcase last night, Viliv presented the device and we were able to make a presentation video.
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I had lunch with some Intel Insiders yesterday. Tom Foremski , Cedric Ingrand and I talk briefly about what we’re using at IDF.

I’m reporting from the IDF09 battery technology session.

Here’s what’s been happening in Li-Ion tech.

“3% per year improvements in capacity (watt-hours)” If you ask me, that’s peanuts. Chemistry research not keeping up with Moore’s Law

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I’ve uploaded all my keynote images into a gallery at UMPCPortal. Check out the Intel Atom futures side, the Intel Atom Developers program pics, images of Moblin 2.1 for handhelds and demos of video applications on MIDs. I estimate…

UMID pulled out quite the suprise at IDF. A refreshed M1 called the M2 which fixes many of the problems of the M1. 1GB RAM, reworked casing, USB ports that don’t require a dongle and a headset port. The M2…

I’ve had a chance to play with the Archos 9 for a while since testing it out at the IDF Mobility Meeting. Here’s a presentation video. Images of the device from the testing session are available in the UMPCPortal…