In Austria, we say that those who have the harm don’t have to worry about the jokes. HP liquidated its webOS platform in a never-before-seen firesale…
The UK Magazine MobileToday has now run the following, truly sweet comic:
Not much to add here – except that subscribing to MobileToday is worth it if just for the comic alone…
This was intended as an internal broadcast – but it makes good food for tought for the general public, too
Something is borked up with the case below – the retainer is all over the place. What a rotten case:
In fact, dear readers, this case is a-ok. It has just taken the brunt of an Austrian rioter who miscalculated a turn and rammed his riot-o-mobile (more fashionable name for bike) straight into a detachment of press photographers, yours truly included. As the rear end of yours truly hit the floor, so did the Palm Treo 680 then found in my pouch. In fact, I partially landed on the Treo (in its case)…and the device survived.
A case is intended to protect your device from catastrophic incidents like the one above! 30€ at Proporta’s, and the 300€ Treo was ready for the next riot. The case didn’t fail; it did an excellent job.
P.S. If a case has been strongly deformed once, resist the temptation to bend it in shape. It won’t be able to “take up” as much force as it could take up the first time…
When we told you that HP will be resting the WebOS to peace, we never even imagined how the employees would backfire.
Well, a video circulating on Youtube certainly lends our imagination some ground. And if PreCentral is to be believed, a disgruntled employee uploaded a video to HP’s website where the TouchPad overview videos sed to sit.
What the lady says before peanuts is “Thoda Sa” which means “A little only”, intending all the pun that is to be there in this ironic situation.
Though this video is funny, but it does show the dark side. All those brilliant minds who strived day and night tirelessly to create the hardware will be handed the pink slip soon. Now that is sad.
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.
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…!!!
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…
Nokia’s death would open up a lot of place all over the phone market – some manufacturers (e.g. Samsung) have even deployed their own platforms as Nokia “killers”. After the cooperation with Microsoft, many have considered Nokia dead – but is this really so?
The folks from InnerActive have now sent us the chart below, which shows a clear growth trend for Nokia’s platforms (dumbphone and smartphone combined):
Not much to add here…
AlphaSmart’s dana handhelds have been around for some time, but never got much attention from developers.
A member of a private Palm developer group now shared the following, fun tale:
On a similar subject a few years ago Alphasmart tried to sell me the SDK for their DANA, which (SDK) used to be public before they apparently took it back and coverted it to private.
Looks like the folks should have called themselves AlphaDumb…
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…
Bill shock is not a new issue – in the past, German and Austrian attorneys have reached all kinds of settlements for their clients.
The Austrian governmental TV station ORF1 now reports that our governmental carrier, A1, could face criminal usury charges over an extreme case of bill shock. A client was charged 25k€ for 1GB of data downloaded inside of Austria due to a malicious application – even though A1 waived the fee after media coverage, a consumer protection body decided to try and press charges (in Austria, loosing a penal lawsuit is usually free for the accusing party):
Of course, the Austrian court system is famous for “timing out” cases it does not want to process (e.g. the Strasser case) – I consider it highly unlikely that a verdict will be reached after A1 offered to waive all fees without accepting guilt.
Nevertheless, an interesting move which could very well work out when applied against non-governmental carriers.
Disclaimer: Tamoggemon Limited is not a legal counsel. The statements above are solely our opinion. PLEASE consult with a lawyer before going after A1!
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
Palms were not knows as the toughest phones on the block. But that was the past. There is news of a Pixi surviving a 450 degrees oven for 45minutes, only on batteries and cookies…!!
The Consumerist writes story about one Mr. Jim, whose wife, while baking cookies, accidentally dropped her phone on the tray and into the oven for 45 minutes.
Your post about the iPhone that fell 1000 feet and lived prompted me to share this story.
My wife was cooking last month. She set the oven to 450 degrees. When that temperature was reached, she inserted a baking sheet with the food she had prepared. After 45 minutes, she opened the oven and found her Palm Pixi phone in the oven just inside the door. It had apparently fallen out of her pocket as she bent down to insert the food into the oven.
She immediately grabbed the phone and when it had cooled enough, she removed the battery, which was distorted by the heat. Figuring she had nothing to lose, she placed a spare battery into the phone. It immediately came to life and has not given her a problem since.
Sincerely yours,
Jim
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…
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…
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:
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…
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