What a fantastic start to the year we’ve had at Meet Mobility. First we’re live in Vegas at the Runcore booth and then a few weeks later, we’re running four sessions in Barcelona at the Intel booth at Mobile World Congress. I think I can speak for the whole Meet:Mobility team when I say that joining our individual web forces for podcasts and events has been one of most rewarding and exciting things we’ve done. You can guarantee we’ll be organising more of these events and as I write this, Sascha and JKK are trying to organise something for CeBIT next week so stay tuned.

My favourite session at MWC last week was the 30 minutes we spent with Scott Apeland. Scott is Director of Intel’s Developer Network and was able to answer most of our questions on the Intel Atom Developer Program, the AppUp Center Beta and the MeeGo announcement. The session is split into three parts and is available over at MeetMobility.

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.

For the next 6 days, Intel are sponsoring me to attend Mobile World Congress where I will join with our podcast partner, Sascha to learn more about the Intel Atom Developer program, Moblin and the AppUp Store. We will also present some sessions where we will talk about the IADP ecosystem an try to help developers understand where it does (and could) fit in.

I’m already here in Barcelona (tweeting and buzzing) and Sacha from NetbookNews is on his way from the airport as I write. We’ll be doing some work under our MeetMobility banner and also taking time to check out everything else that’s happening here. 3G is already sorted out (7-days unlimited via Vodafone ES for 18 Euros) and we’re packing some of the best mobile kit we could lay our hands on. We’re also looking forward to meeting our peers at the networking events stay tuned over the next 5 days for a full update on how mobility is spreading hard and fast beyond the mobile phone.

A few dates for your diary:

• Sunday evening: Showstoppers and press events.
• Monday morning: Joint Intel and Nokia Press conference.
• Monday evening: Pepcom event.
• Wednesday 11am: Live Q&A with Scott Apeland, Director of Intel’s Developer Network. (We’ll be watching the chat channel for your questions.)
• Wednesday 2pm: Live MeetMobility Podcast. (here.)

Meet:Mobility Podcast 42 is now available. Recorded on  10th Feb 2010. Podcast notes below.

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Show Notes:

Netbooks

Samsung N150, NB50  arrived at netbook news
Info and test coming at Netbooknews.com

Battery battle. Marketing. Differential between marketing and real-world getting too wide.
Steve Jobs said that 10hrs is enough – Overnight charging is good enough. Really?

Smartphones/Smartbooks/MIDs

Android stuff
– multitouch to maps browser etc
– Milestone to 2.01 camera fix, new lock etc hacks
Archos goes Linux
Joo Joo to ship by end of Feb. App store

There are now 40+ app stores in total

UMPCs

UMID BZ now shipping from Dynamism $549
ExoPC, Nav 9, Evi Group Pad.

MWC

Dell Mini 5
Inbrics
HP new 3G device. Tablet.
Notion Ink latest-gen NVIDIA Tegra chipset and Pixel Qi‘s (Slashgearnews)
Meetmobility event:
http://meetmobility.com/2010/02/09/meet-mobility-at-mwc-2010/

Meet:Mobility Podcast 42 is now available. Recorded on  10th Feb 2010. Podcast notes below.

Listen to the podcasts by clicking on the mp3 link or download/play via the link. Subscription info below. (RSS, iTunes)

SUBSCRIBE

You can also find the podcast on iTunes (Please rate the show on iTunes.) You can also subscribe via RSS.

Show Notes:

Netbooks

Samsung N150, NB50  arrived at netbook news
Info and test coming at Netbooknews.com

Battery battle. Marketing. Differential between marketing and real-world getting too wide.
Steve Jobs said that 10hrs is enough – Overnight charging is good enough. Really?

Smartphones/Smartbooks/MIDs

Android stuff
– multitouch to maps browser etc
– Milestone to 2.01 camera fix, new lock etc hacks
Archos goes Linux
Joo Joo to ship by end of Feb. App store

There are now 40+ app stores in total

UMPCs

UMID BZ now shipping from Dynamism $549
ExoPC, Nav 9, Evi Group Pad.

MWC

Dell Mini 5
Inbrics
HP new 3G device. Tablet.
Notion Ink latest-gen NVIDIA Tegra chipset and Pixel Qi‘s (Slashgearnews)
Meetmobility event:
http://meetmobility.com/2010/02/09/meet-mobility-at-mwc-2010/

We had to split up the 1.5hr Meet:Mobility podcast 40 because there was just too much to talk about! In it we (that’s JKK, Sascha and myself) cover CES with a focus on netbooks, MIDs, smartbooks, tablets and ereaders in the three-part podcast that you can download or stream at Meet:Mobility.

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Sorry about the late notice on this one but we’ve found a slot and we need to jump on it.

At 2100 (CES) tonight (about 4hrs from this posting) we’ll be sitting down to prepare for a Meet:Mobility podcast (broadcast live) followed by (at approx 2230) a live videocast of the E-King S515.

JKKMobile and Sascha will be joining and we’d love you to join too.

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Over at Meet:Mobility, Sascha, JKK and I have just posted podcast 34.  A half-hour of netbook, MID, smartphone and ultra mobile PC discussion with a focus on IDF, the N900 and the rush of tablet-style devices hitting the market at the moment. We hope you enjoy it.

One point I wanted to highlight from the podcast is where Sascha reminds us that although there’s a tablet buzz going on right now, not many of the devices have hit the market yet and there’s no proof that any of them are or will be successful. Worth thinking about.

Note that Sascha will be moderating the Netbook World Expo in Paris on December 8th. I’ll be at the Mobile Dev Camp in Munich on October 31st.

Finally, we’re still looking for a sponsor for the Meet:Mobility podcasts so that we can make it a regular bi-weekly event. If you’re interested, contact us for details.

Meet:Mobility Podcast 34