Meat, Mobile and Me
They were slicing a giant pork roast here in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, but all I could look at was the amazing array of mobile technologies the folks at Mobile Focus (put on by Pep Com but not affiliated with MWC) laid out. Exec producer Fritz Nelson, videographer Matt Conner and I avoided the carcass and spent our time checking a surprising array of mobile technologies. There were several main themes I noticed. Lots of announced but still unshipped devices were in use by the app m
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They were slicing a giant pork roast here in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, but all I could look at was the amazing array of mobile technologies the folks at Mobile Focus (put on by Pep Com but not affiliated with MWC) laid out. Exec producer Fritz Nelson, videographer Matt Conner and I avoided the carcass and spent our time checking a surprising array of mobile technologies. There were several main themes I noticed. Lots of announced but still unshipped devices were in use by the app makers. The upcoming LG phones and the here-any-minute RIM BlackBerry PlayBook were in full sight, showing off games, fancy personal networking technologies, 3D maps and developer toolkits for every device imaginable. A lot of companies were taking mobile aim at Skype. I loved a product from VMware that will allow two operating systems to run on one phone -- theoretically, that means they could put iOS in a virtual session on the Android. That video is coming soon. Take a look at some of things we found. As I said, Fritz and I both shot videos at this locale. Keep a look out.
zBoost was showing an international line of indoor signal boosters. I don't know about you, but losing signals indoors drives me nuts. As our own Charlie Babcock famously says, "the iPhone means never having to say goodbye!" But it's a problem for other phones, too, and Wi-Ex' zBoost-ONE UMTS 3G Signal Booster and zBoost for Home and Office claim to stop call drops, improve indoor wifi performance and just generally improve performance. They claim to increase data speeds by more than double. This I'd like to see. And review. And maybe, just maybe, buy for my big old house.
As usual, the folks at Pep Com spare no expense liquoring up the journalists, which must be why they check ID at the door! LOL. We don't play that. But I bet it softens up the bloggers! : )
We keep hearing the PlayBook is going to be available "any day now." RIM reps told me end of first quarter, and that means within six weeks. But here's something interesting. Thanks to the speed offered by its TI dual-core processor, it might make a really decent gaming platform. RIM showed EA's Tetris and its fast-paced Need for Speed Undercover racing game. They'll be included for free with the PlayBook. They looked speedy. Look for our review and teardown whenever this thing ships.
I just liked this. I sort of want one. The case and the phone. Don't tell anyone, though. I have to keep my company phone. And journalists can't except graft. I can review stuff, though (hint).
Immersion Corp showed MOTIV, which it claims will let app makers allow cool tactile effects in their apps.
muVEE announced an HD Video Editing toolkit for Android.
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Video: muVEE on YouTube
I like that this is named after my neighborhood in San Francisco. Hopefully, it is not as scary at night. But overall, impressive!
Lots of companies are at MWC taking aim at Skype, which is slow to bring video conferencing across mobile devices. (Skype does allow voice over phones and has announced support for video on a handful of phones). But OoVoo, which already is on lots and lots of mobile devices doing fast live video, announced iPhone support here. Bingo!
Video Coverage:
OoVoo: Multi-party Video Chat on Android, iOS, PC & Mac
Lots of companies are at MWC taking aim at Skype, which is slow to bring video conferencing across mobile devices. (Skype does allow voice over phones and has announced support for video on a handful of phones). But OoVoo, which already is on lots and lots of mobile devices doing fast live video, announced iPhone support here. Bingo!
Video Coverage:
OoVoo: Multi-party Video Chat on Android, iOS, PC & Mac
They were slicing a giant pork roast here in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, but all I could look at was the amazing array of mobile technologies the folks at Mobile Focus (put on by Pep Com but not affiliated with MWC) laid out. Exec producer Fritz Nelson, videographer Matt Conner and I avoided the carcass and spent our time checking a surprising array of mobile technologies. There were several main themes I noticed. Lots of announced but still unshipped devices were in use by the app makers. The upcoming LG phones and the here-any-minute RIM BlackBerry PlayBook were in full sight, showing off games, fancy personal networking technologies, 3D maps and developer toolkits for every device imaginable. A lot of companies were taking mobile aim at Skype. I loved a product from VMware that will allow two operating systems to run on one phone -- theoretically, that means they could put iOS in a virtual session on the Android. That video is coming soon. Take a look at some of things we found. As I said, Fritz and I both shot videos at this locale. Keep a look out.
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