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I’m too sexy for your android ..

February 28, 2010   Android PR   No comments

I caught an article a few days back saying how the majority of women preferred the iPhone and that most Android device owners were men. Hmmmm….

It certainly got me thinking again about women and their gadgets … or should I say, accessories. Two years back I started a site called “Tech Savvy Tech Sexy” and it was suppose to feature gadgets that women were drawn to and why. I should really re-vitalize that site …. or put it up again because I feel I am really missing the boat when it comes to women and gadgets.

Of course, I don’t want to be another “Geek girl” with another gadget site. Lord knows, we don’t need another one of those .. or???

Then last week, when I got back from Barcelona, after being surrounded by men and gadgets, I received something Pink and Swarovski Crystal like. It was a Pat Says Now, Special Edition Glamrock Mouse.

Now frankly speaking, I don’t use a mouse, much less, one with Swarovski Crystals glued to the center. I should really try it out though. I wonder if it would make me feel more of a “accomplished woman” or something like that. Or maybe it’s meant to make me feel sexy. Hell, if I wanted to feel sexy, I’d just blog in my thong or something.

Anyway…..

Women always love fashion, even if it’s not considered fashionable. Women always have their own sense of fashion, be it copied, original (often quirky) etc .. so what does it take for a gadget to be more “female appealing”.

At the Mobile World Congress at the Samsung section, I caught a phone series entitled: The Diva Collection -

You can watch the video of it here:

One thing I did note while on a spy mission with Android to the new Apple store in Frankfurt, was that, there definitely was a lot more accessories for the iPhone than there was for the Nexus One. Firstly, the Nexus One has just barely arrived to Germany (I got mine in Barcelona) and second of all, android phones vary in size and shape, that to make accessories a.k.a., neat little wardrobes for the devices wouldn’t seem to practical from a manufacturer’s stand point. At least with the iPhone, it’s all the same shape. One size fits all, and this makes everyone and his mother, want to design something for the iPhone.

I suppose I’ll need to scout around and start my own Android PR Gal Nexus One accessories. Hmmmm, in fact I WILL!

Well, that’s it for now. I’ll try to blog more on what I saw at the MWC10.

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After MWC 2010

February 27, 2010   Android PR   No comments

It was a week ago that I returned from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and I’m STILL exhausted. It was truly overwhelming and surely a Gadget Gals paradise, not to mention a “sausage fest” as Sara would put it.

Not only that, but I found myself wifi challenged the first day and a half. Mind you, I arrived there Tuesday morning and went straight to the venue. Despite the Media Wifi card, access was horrible. If you weren’t accessing their ethernet cables then wifi was fickle, for me anyway. I would’ve gotten those Yoigo Pre-Paid data and phone sim cards if I only knew where they were earlier. Luckily, Wednesday afternoon I managed to find a phone house and purchase two. I didn’t want to be caught without wifi ever. NEVER!

It really was too bad though. I was not able to qik or live stream or tweet (much) or especially take photos and twitpic, posterous or facebook them.

Wednesday afternoon was spent trying to see everything (which I didn’t get to do). Thursday was spent seeing the exhibits I really wanted to see and going back and talking to people. Thursday was by far the best day in terms of talking to people. However, by the time I got back to the press area, I only had like 20 minutes to upload photos to flickr … I had forgotten that the press area closed at 4 pm on the last day. In fact, when I left the press area, the exhibitors were already starting to pack up.

I did manage to take enough photos and enough vids. What I still need to do is to write about all the things I wanted to share. This weekend should be a blogging weekend. Hopefully I’ll get MWC10 squared away before CeBIT next week.

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Eric Schmidt Speaks

February 17, 2010   Android PR   No comments

While wandering the auditorium halls, I happened to catch Google’s Eric Schmidt, giving his keynote speech. So shoot me for not staying the entire keynote but my tummy was grumbling and when my tummy speaks, I listen.

I did manage to stay for the first 20 minutes, enough to see the demo of Google’s Voice Search and to know that, German was the fourth language to be added to their search. Out of the 20 minutes of EricSpeak time I found one sentence that struck out at me in a good way.

” … mobile first.”

Indeed, developers are no longer placing mobile app development on their roadmap after browsers, but rather developing new apps / software on mobile, FIRST. This statement does not only mark the point of a change in software development but more importantly, signify the start of a truly mobile world – for some, with more possibilities for others.

I’m not going to make a statement that would lock Google as the leader of the mobile world, dare I even think that. I will however, minutely suggest that Google has definitely upped the anty in terms of “empowerment for the end user”.

Eric Schmidt also mentioned something along the lines of the U.S. being one of the leaders of LTE, in other words, 4G is just a bridge away. I need to emphasize the phrase ‘one of the leaders’ because he also clearly mentioned that the Europeans, who have been known to lead the world in wireless technology, with China close behind, are collaborative partners when it comes to deploying LTE to the world.

I understand that there may be a few snickers at the mention of 4G, as there still needs to be much improvement with 3G, not to mention networks even being able to provide 3G, let alone, reliable 3G, just saying.

But what the world doesn’t know won’t hurt them. One day, humans will wake up to the reality of a standard 4G and perhaps augmented reality apps that have somehow creeped into our devices overnight.

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Mobile World Congress 2010

February 14, 2010   Android PR   No comments

We’re getting ready to leave for the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. We had such a great response from people wanting “What’s up, Android?” to be present at their exhibit announcements that out heads are spinning on where to go first, since a lot of these presentations take place almost simultaneously.

We’ll try to cover as much as we can and then of course there are the many “cocktail” invites to try to attend .. so many people to see, so little time.

There’ll be a separate Mobile World Congress 2010 Category called MWC2010 that will be set up for all things relating to the 4 day event. We’ll have to miss the First day but will be arriving late morning on Tuesday and staying all the way till Thursday.

Do stay tuned for our coverage of the events that are taking place in Barcelona!

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