There’s one thing that always happens at bar camps; people talk. They talk with a passion and if you listen carefully you can always pick up a few little tasty morsels of information.

At the Mobile Dev Camp in Munich today it was no different. Apart from some excellent talks that I’ll write about over at MIDMoves (I had my MIDmoves hat on today) I picked up the following bits of info.

Moorestown /Moblin graphics performance (video below)

I saw a nice demo which made me think that yes, that GMA500 that annoys so many people on the Menlow platform, will be a whole lot better under Moblin and Moorestown and might even work in Menlow. The demo was a MSI Wind U115 playing a Quake III demo in the Moblin OS. 35 fps on an external monitor isn’t bad at all! Apparently the drivers are the latest (under NDA) and were back-ported to work with Menlow. The software engineer ensured me that Moorestown would be better. He also assured me that the core was PowerVR in a GMA500. That’s two software engineers that have confirmed that now. Seeing Moorestown graphic drivers working in Menlow kind of proves it too!

What clock for Moorestown?

More of an engineers hunch than something set in stone was the thought that Moorestown would run up to 1.2Ghz. Actually I see no reason why it can’t go higher over time as long as the devices thermal characteristics allow it. When you think about the processing range that Moorestown could cover you’re looking at something that starts at the current high-end of smartphones and goes up, in multi-threaded form, to at least twice the processing power.

Intel Atom Developer Program.

IADP will launch very early next year. That’s earlier than I thought but the earlier the better because the momentum for the Android and iPhone ecosystem is huge.

HTML5.

HTML5 is exciting. Flash is exciting too but both of these software technologies are going to put more load on your CPU. On mobile devices, that means trouble. Either the battery drains faster or the page loading slows down. You can turn Flash off but I hope you can turn HTML5 support off too otherwise the battery problem on mobile devices just gets worse.

No news on GPU for PineView.

I tried to squeeze out the details from a few people but no-one knew. Is it the GMA 3150 or the GMA500 as I predicted? The jury is still out on that one.

Mobile Dev Camp hits Munich on Saturday and thanks to Intel’s ‘Insider’ program I’ve been invited down to join in with the fun. MDC will be a day where mobile developers get the chance to talk about their favorite subjects, to present ideas and to meet others in the ‘ecosystem.’ Intel will be there along with Elektrobit, Daisho Blacksmith and Greenrobot along with around 100 developer-minded individuals. If it’s anything like MDC in Amsterdam, it will be a great day of learning and sharing.

I’ll be taking 13 mobile devices (it’s Halloween!) with me ranging from Series 40 through to Android, Maemo, Moblin and Windows and I’ll be offering a talk about mobile platforms and segmentation using the diagram on the right.

• Can a smartphone do everything? If not, what other devices are able to take the load in the mobile space?
• Is a 4” screen to big as an all-day device. Would you rather carry a small phone and a secondary (or tertiary) device?
• What’s the smallest size that works as a mobile desktop?
• How do battery life requirements affect the size of a device?
• How small can an Intel Moorestown / Medfield device be?

I’ll also give an update on Moorestown and the important features that bring it into the ‘all-day-on’ category. Attendees will also get a chance to have hands-on with devices like the Viliv S5, X70 and S7 along with the Archos Android Tablet and Nokia N900. I also have some goodies to give away which should secure at least a few attendees to my talk. The talk will be in ‘Denglisch’ so that should be a laugh too. Add the fact that I’ll probably be sampling the local beer in the Hotel Bauer (join me for a chance to play with some devices, 1900 in the Bar) on the night before and we’re set up for an interesting session! Hope to see you there.

I’ll try and knock up a video later showing all the devices I’ve got. I’ll also get some content out during the Friday and Saturday. (What else am I going to do on the 12-hour return train journey!)

If you want to go and haven’t registered, you still have time to sign-up here.