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Mobius

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Am posting this via P800 and e-mail from hotel bedroom via GPRS. I'll post a fullish report impression once I'm back. It's going to be more impressions opinions etc. because there isn't that much substantive news.

Meeting with all the people has been very good. Some of the atendees are infosync, PPCT, Mobile Burn, News Wireless, thefeature.com, PocketGamer, HowardChui, PDAFrance, My-Symbian, ClieSource, PalmInfoCenter, MoDoCo, Smartphony and more. Meeting the name behind the faces is really great. Its not always what you expect, but it nice to know everyone is human. The stuff so far has concentrated on Smartphone 2002- in my opinion its just not quite there UI or desigm wise. I think it would be fair to say that the will is there.

We have each been given a SPV and some other goodies (memory cards, bags, stylus, software), which is nice, but it is noticeable that even among this groups of super geeks people dont find things easy at times. Having played myself now for a few hours with a SPV I am glad to get back to a S60 and UIQ. I think most people here would accept that Symbian and S60 is ahead.

I think that perhaps the most telling thing is the number of Symbian phones that people have bought with them. Between 25 there must be almost 20 symbian phones (agasnst 2 or 3 spv etc. - before the give away that is!).

The nice thing is everyone is friendly and willing to talk whatever there personal belief. That's great! The impression I get though is that some people (and i dont mean ms necessairly - though they and allies are somewhat included in this) do not get the mobile space idea. There are still misconceptions galore. not that i'm defintely right of course...

I'll post some pics once I'm home. See webmasters as you never wanted to see them.

nb = you may want to read my post on aas which explains mobius - ms is cathing the accomodation and travel bill. i'm trying to be fair and open minded but the truth is my symbian bias comes through too much!