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Register Now for HP webOS Worldwide Developer Events

Aug 032011

Good news webOS devs. HP is holding webOS Worldwide Developer Events this fall.

The events will be at Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Madrid, Milan and Mexico City.

You will not only gain knowledge from the veterans and the more experienced developers, but you will also get to share your ideas and have Q&A sessions to have a better understanding on the platform.

Details can found below for the same. The best part is that there is no fee for participation .

Register Now for HP webOS Worldwide Developer Events

Who: Developers, designers and mobile expressionists

What:    webOS Workshop and webOS CONNECT events

Where:    Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Madrid, Milan and Mexico City

When:     September – October, 2011

Why:      – Accelerate you webOS development

- Direct access to webOS engineers, designers and business development experts

- Experience product demos and hands-on access to HP devices

- Learn how to incorporate unique webOS features into your mobile applications

- Bring your imagination and skills to life with the webOS 3.0 Enyo framework, innovative tools and an elegant user                interface using HP’s world-class web-based platform

- Connect with one of the most passionate and creative developer communities anywhere

- Be our guest. It’s free to attend.

So what are you waiting for? Just hit the Register Today button and enroll yourself for symposiums on webOS enlightenment.

Happy developing…!!!

Mobile World Congress stays in Barcelona

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Jul 242011

mobile world congress Mobile World Congress stays in Barcelona Not much has been hard about the MWC’s future location in the last few months – there were four cities still in the race, one of which being the ever-more deteriorating venue in Barcelona.

The GSMA has now awarded the contest to Barcelona once again:

After an 18-month search, the GSMA today announced that Barcelona has been selected as the Mobile World Capital from 2012 to 2018.

However, the existing – and annoying – Fira de Montijuc will be history come 2013:

Starting in 2013, the Mobile World Congress will be held at the new, cutting-edge venue, Fira de Barcelona Gran Via. The dates for the 2013 Mobile World Congress are 25-28 February 2013. Mobile World Congress 2012 will remain at Fira de Barcelona Montjuic and will be held 27 February – 1 March 2012.

Let’s see how it all plays out…

WHYMCA 2011 – Qt on Android – slides

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May 222011

WHYMCA 2011 Qt on Android slides This one is a little help for all those of you who slept through, were eating or were knocked out by a low-flying piece of chocolate during my WhyMCA talk on Qt for Android.

You can download the slides in PowerPoint 2003 format here:
http://tamsandroid.tamoggemon.com/content/2011/May/tamhan-whymca.ppt

P.S. I hope that a video of the talk will be made available at a later point in time…

Qt on Android @ DroidCon 2011/Berlin – slides

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Mar 262011

This is a little service for all those of you who attended, slept through or missed Damien Buhl’s (and yours truly’s) talk at the DroidCon 2011 in Berlin.

Find the 12MB PowerPoint slide deck at this URL:
http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/content/2011/March/thadroidcontalk/QtPresentation-5reduxmini.ppt

CeBit 2011 – HP / Palm

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Mar 012011

HP sometimes had a booth at CeBit, and sometimes not. This year, they had a booth – but continued their tradition of not showing any mobile devices.

HP’s booth was part of Microsoft’s:

Even though the HP / Palm booth area was pretty large, the company didn’t show off anything except for a bunch of cloud solutions:

All in all, I didn’t see a single webOS device at the CeBit so far – if I see one, I’ll report right back…

AccessCo and Palm nostalgia

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Feb 252011

Even though Access has all but given up on its Palm OS and ALP platforms, the folks still seem motivated to leech off some goodwill and nostalgic feelings.

One side of their booth contained user comments, many of which praised Palm OS:

Not much to add here…

Mobile World Congress 2011 – event impressions

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Feb 182011

More coverage from the event is coming shortly!
Recapitulating many of the speeches and talks with other attendants, it looks like the GSMA’s motto of embracing the transformation was indeed accomplished: we saw little truly new, yet a lot of traditionally high-tech stuff is now on its way to price-conscious consumers.

From a device manufacturers viewpoint, the focus areas were clear: tablets with Android (one webOS) and loads of cheap smartphones using outdated screens. Power users were treated to a few dual core Android phones and a 3D phone from LG.

Speaking of 3D: industry pundits have long stipulated that content would be the the next battle area. This turned out to be true: hundreds of very happy content providers were roaming the scene.

Day four traditionally is rather useless, as most important people leave in the morning. However, the Fira showed an especial lack of talent this time: not only was security onerous as always, but they actually managed to have queues in front of most male toilets (!!!).

WhatAMap.com (the supplier of the on-device catalog) didn’t shine too much, either. Last year, the app was just a disaster to use – this year, it wasn’t even able to display contact information or booth addresses:
mwc fail Mobile World Congress 2011 event impressions

If you add in the normal traffic queues and the onerous waits fort a taxi, you get a very tiresome event. This was echoed by more than one participant, who wished that the next event would be held at another city…

Access Co at the Mobile World Congress 2011

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Feb 152011

Access Co has the questionable honor of having received the first post before the congress even started – they got it because Access Linux Platform seems to be dead for good.

Nevertheless, they still had a stand this year. It was at the same place as always, but their neighbor changed from Palm to the 3GSM embedded house:

Palm OS nostalgists will be delighted to see that Graffiti is still around. If you look carefully at some of the shots, you can even see the Palm OS fonts of lore:

In addition, a launcher for Android was shown as end user product:

Carriers were offered a variety of solutions ranging from synchronization to video calls:

Finally, something funny – the piano player in front of the booth used an iPad:

If you ask me, Access is transitioning from an OS vendor to a crossplattform software / solutions company. It remains to be seen how successful they will be…

Mobile World Congress – devday lineup announced

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Dec 202010

Last year’s Mobile World Congress brought us the debut of the Developer Day – various manufacturers chartered large parts of the venue and held developer wooing events (with device giveaways) there.

The GSMA has now informed us about the lineup for this year:

Monday, 14 February – WAC App Developer Conference
Monday, 14 February – Nokia App Developer Conference

Tuesday, 15 February – BlackBerry Developer Day by RIM
Tuesday, 15 February – Samsung App Developer Conference
Tuesday, 15 February – HP webOS App Developer Conference

Wednesday, 16 February – Mobile {Dev}Sync
Wednesday, 16 February –Windows Phone App Developer Conference
Wednesday, 16 February – LTE forum

Thursday, 17 February – Macworld Mobile
Thursday, 17 February –WIPJam
Thursday, 17 February – Mobile Cloud Forum with Cisco, HP, Huawei and NEC
Thursday, 17 February – IMGA ADC and Awards Programme

Let’s close this post with a little hint: in the past, both Samsung and Nokia have been very friendly when it comes to giving away devices to developers…

Open house @ FH Hagenberg – visit us on the 9th of March

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Mar 092010

Open house @ FH Hagenberg visit us on the 9th of March Dr. Schaffer’s Mobile Computing facility at the Austrian FH Hagenberg has produced quite a few really amazing projects (think Shaker Racer) in the last years; the knowledge of their faculty staff is top-notch and contains loads of Forum Nokia champions. Cutting a long story short: the price (free) is more than right – I am there for about 18 months now and am happy overall.

In case anyone of you feels like adding a Bachelor of Science in Mobile Computing to his business card, definitely consider these boys. As tuition is free and living in Linz is dirt cheap (900E/month max), interested German-speakers are well advised to visit their open-house day to find out more about how to get great education for a very low price…which is held on Friday:

FH Hagenberg Campus
Softwarepark 11
4232 Hagenberg/Austria

Open: 9h to 18h local time

Yours truly will not be around this time. However, it would be too cool to have a group of Tamoggemon Content Network heads at this university…

Open house @ FH Hagenberg

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Mar 122009

Open house @ FH Hagenberg Dr. Schaffer’s Mobile Computing facility at the Austrian FH Hagenberg has produced quite a few really amazing projects (think Shaker Racer) in the last years; the knowledge of their faculty staff is top-notch and contains loads of Forum Nokia champions. Cutting a long story short: the price (free) is more than right – I am there for about 6 months now and am happy overall.

In case anyone of you feels like adding a Bachelor of Science in Mobile Computing to your business card, definitely consider these boys. As tuition is free and living in Linz is dirt cheap (900E/month max), interested German-speakers are well advised to visit their open-house day to find out more about how to get great education for a very low price…which is held tomorrow:

FH Hagenberg Campus
Softwarepark 11
4232 Hagenberg/Austria

Open: 9h to 18h local time

Yours truly will be around photographing stuff – if anyone of you happens to drop by, you should have no issues tracking me down! I’d appreciate seeing some of you there…

Palm User Meeting 2008 – an unexpected gift

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Mar 192008

Usually, readers read web sites and – sometimes – talk back. However, a TamsPalm reader who identified himself just as Carsten dropped off a few vintage handhelds at the Tamoggemon booth:

I now own a Palm Tungsten T3, a Treo 650 and – really cool – a working Clie 770c(thanks to Clieler for pointing out the hold switch thingy).

A big thank you goes out to Carsten for the handhelds – /me always loves new handhelds!

Palm User Meeting 2008 – Janam XP30, Dana Wireless

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Mar 142008

It is a long-established tradition to bring along rare or otherwise interesting handhelds along to the PUM. Last year, we had a transparent Vii and a Palm Tungsten x420. This year, we were treated to a Dana Wireless and a – strangely non-working – Janam XP30:

Dana Wireless
The Dana Wireless is among the most boring handhelds ever – one picture says more than thousand words:

Janam XP30
Do not ask me where this box came from, but it was in the locker in the center of the room:

A Nexave employee gladly handet it out to me – unfortunately, the machine didn’t power up. Nevertheless, here are a few comparison images next to a Treo 680:

A quick look at the GSPDA M28

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Mar 112008

Frequent TamsPalm readers will definitely be familiar with Group Sense’s latest products(M70 and M70s) – a friendly Palm User Meeting visitor allowed me to take a few shows of one of the predecessor models. Here comes…the GSPDA M28:

First of all, the M28 is a “slider”-type phone. The bottom must be slid down in order to expose the (rather small but usable) keyboard:

Specs-wise, the two devices are very similar. However, the M70 has Bluetooth and some sort of NVFS – two features missing on the M28:

Last but not least, here’s a picture of the devices shipment box. The M28’s hardware bundle is said to contain an extra charger for spare batteries – an accessory missing from the M70’s bundle.

In the end, the GSPDA M28 was a kickass phone when it originally hit the market. It is a real pity that GSPDA’s devices aren’t known to more customers outside of Hong Kong. However, today, the M70 offers significantly better value…

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TamsPalm – the Palm OS / web OS Blog

Register Now for HP webOS Worldwide Developer Events

Mobile World Congress stays in Barcelona

WHYMCA 2011 – Qt on Android – slides

Qt on Android @ DroidCon 2011/Berlin – slides

CeBit 2011 – HP / Palm

AccessCo and Palm nostalgia

Mobile World Congress 2011 – event impressions

Access Co at the Mobile World Congress 2011

Mobile World Congress – devday lineup announced

Open house @ FH Hagenberg – visit us on the 9th of March

Open house @ FH Hagenberg

Palm User Meeting 2008 – an unexpected gift

Palm User Meeting 2008 – Janam XP30, Dana Wireless

A quick look at the GSPDA M28

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