Compaq Airlife 100 – Android in a Netbook Styley.

We had heard that HP were going to unveil a new ‘3G’ device on Monday at MWC and we suspect this is it.

Extended battery life, light weight, touchscreen, 3G and a lower price (or at least some very cheap…

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Intel and Nokia Press Conference on Monday at MWC.

The Guardian UK have just tweeted that there’s a press conference on Monday at MWC with Nokia and Intel.

Presumably they just got an invite.

Luckily for us, I’m going to MWC as…

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Myriad Offers Dalvic Turbo for Intel Atom. Android and Windows side-by-side?

I’ve already seen a Dalvic runtime component on a Moblin build running on a netbook (Canonical were working on it and gave a quick glance at Computex last year) but here’s another clear indicator that there’s interest for running Android…

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DevMob 2010 Video Interview

While I was at DevMob2010 last week the organisers interviewed me for a video. We talked about some of the sessions at DevMob and the opportunities for developers in the 4-10” screen size range.

I’ll be talking…

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Mobile Computing Segmentation and Capabilities. (Updated from DevMob 2010)

Thanks to the great crowd at DevMob2010 in London last week, I’ve had some good feedback to my scenarios and segmentation diagram which was originally created in 2006 and is now updated and re-published under CC license. It should help as a stimulus for software developers thinking about the possibilities in the space between smartphones and netbooks and can help device designers to think about usage scenarios. Customers will also find it useful to pick out their own usage scenarios and to see what type of device fits with their requirements. Related posts:

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