Meet:Mobility Podcast 43 was a great session recorded live at the Intel booth at Mobile World Congress 2010 in front of a live audience. In the 40-minute podcast we talk about some of the best hardware and software aspects of MWC and hook into the money and business aspects of development for mobile software platforms. Round the table for podcast 43 were…

• Matthäus Krzykowski [Twitter]- Agora 9 Group and Venture Beat
• Monty Metzger [Twitter] – Ahead of Time / Mocom 2020
• Hubert Nguyuen [Twitter] – Ubergizmo
• Sascha Pallenberg [Twitter] – Netbooknews
• Host: Steve ‘Chippy’ Paine [Twitter] – Carrypad / UMPCPortal

The audio version of the podcast, with show notes, will be in the normal channels soon but if you can’t wait for that, the video’s are available here.

Many thanks to Pages Media (YouTube-Channel : RedaktionPages ) and Software-Dev-Blog for their support in making this video and thanks to the live audience and of course to the Intel Developer Network who made this live session possible.

Podcast 44, a studio-based warm-up to CeBIT is coming tomorrow and the team will also be bringing you mini-podcasts each day from CeBIT as the news breaks.

Thanks for listening and watching.

I sat down with Pankaj Kedia today. Pankaj is responsible for ecosystem development for the ultra mobility group at Intel and plays an important role in interfacing with software developers and bringing their products into ultra mobile devices. I took ten minutes to ask him a number of questions about MeeGo. We talk about timescales, strategy, opportunities and I ask about a developer conference; a question I will definitely follow-up because having experienced the excellent Maemo Summit in 2009, it makes perfect sense to run a similar event or roadshow in 2010.

Summary of responses from Pankaj:

• Talks about the synergy between Maemo and Moblin. More Robust OS with the same API to make it easier for developers.
• Takes us one step closer to our visions.
• Hundreds of people at Intel working on Moblin.
• 15 OSV’s (Operating System Vendors) committed to Moblin.
• ‘One plus One greater than two’
• First version of MeeGo is ‘MeeGo Version 1’
• Release in Q2
• Roadmap will be accelerated
• 5, 7, 10 year strategy.
• Big opportunity for Intel
• Each segment is fragement looking for a standards based software stack.
• Ovi and Intel App Store Framework will remain separate.

Welcome to Part 4 of the Ultra Mobile Computing Buyers Guide. The final part is titled ‘Additional Information and further reading’ and ties up the lose ends by going over some of the less commonly found features. We also give you a big reading list.

We feel we’ve done a good job on it and covered a lot of ground and a good level of detail but if you want to see additional content or make corrections, please let us know in the comments below. We’ll consider adding it to the next issue which will be published during the summer of 2009.

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Buyers Guide posts:

• Introduction
• Part One: ‘What is Ultra Mobile Computing?’ We give you a history of Ultra Mobile computing, show you how the devices break down into segments and show you what each segment is capable of.
• Part Two: ‘Details and Choices.’  It covers the form factors, the keyboard, storage, the screen and connectivity elements of an Ultra Mobile PC. You’ll find a good overview and a lot of tips that will help you refine your choice.
• Part Three continues the details about the components and covers CPU (including a detailed overview of the currently available solutions) GPU, memory, battery, weight and cost.
• Part Four (below) ‘Additional Information and further reading.’ In this section we cover some of the less commonly found features on Ultra Mobile computers and give you information and links to further reading resources.

The compete series will be published next week as a free PDF or e-book for non-commercial use. If you would like to use it for commercial purposes, please contact us to discuss.

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