I’ve just got back to the hotel after hosting the MeetMobility podcast 43 live from the Intel booth at MWC where Sascha Pallenberg (NetbookNews), Matthäus Krzykowski (Agora 9 Group and contributor to VentureBeat,) Hubert Nguyen (Ubergizmo,) Monty Metzger (Ahead of Time and founder of Mocom 2020) and myself talked over the important topics coming out of MWC. We took a few minutes to put together and agenda that included hardware, software and business. We steered clear of pure phone-related topics (as is normal) for the podcast and ended up with this set of bullet points which is a good representation of the top mobile-computing news at MWC.
Products
Dell Mini 5 Well-equipped 3G enabled MID running Android.
Compaq AirLife 100 Android-based touchscreen netbook-style device that introduces the ‘always on’ model of computing.
Qualcomm Mirasol E-Reader Color ereader device with Mirasol display technology.
Acer Aspire One 532G First Pinetrail netbook with Nvidia Ion2 GPU and HDMI-out.
Software
MeeGo The joint venture between Intel and Nokia to provide a single Linux-based software stack that can be used across multiple device segments using different CPU architechtures.
Flash 10.1 GPU-aware version of Adobe Flash arriving soon on a number of devices and platforms in including Android (the new HTC Desire for example.)
The rest of the podcast was spent talking about the developer community. Matthaus had some great input from his work with mobile start-ups and we hope we can bring you the full podcast soon so you can hear that important input. We had some problems recording the full show on Ustream due to poor Wifi coverage but we have another source that we’ll edit-up and bring to you on the usual MeetMobility podcast channel as soon as we can.
That’s what we’re seeing from within MWC. How are people seeing it from the outside? What news is rising to the top for you?
Image credit to Frank Gruber.
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Where is Jkk? In fact, I haven’t seen anything new from him in a long time.
Nethertheless, good podcast. Hope meego really takes off.
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>>>Dell Mini 5 – Well-equipped 3G enabled MID running Android.
The Archos still trumps it in that it can do real video, not just MP4/3GP. And unlocked for a rumored US$1,000? FAIL!
>>>Compaq AirLife 100 – Android-based touchscreen netbook-style device that introduces the ‘always on’ model of computing.
This is interesting but not being able to twist the screen around to hold it as a tablet is just bizarre. I keep thinking poking at the screen for touch will make it rock or even fall backwards.