Edinburgh London Edinburgh… via Barcelona
It’s been a funny week and a bit here. The big thing is that my ‘pmt’ has hit and I am very much emotionally down. Now I know I joke and pmt is a strange way to describe my mood, but a few years ago, every 6 weeks, as regular as clockwork, I would just get down for no apparent reason. Hence the label ‘pmt.’ It’s been a while since I’ve had it, and I wish it had chosen another time to hit.
The last few days have been spenton London.I travelled down on the Friday, stopping off at Coventry to visit my Gran, for a long weekend visit with the family. Monday was a day of meetings, followed by the All About Symbian Pub Meet. What’s good with my mood is I find it very easy to put on my public “Ewan” persona (which isn’t that far removed from the real me). So with the ‘game face’ in place, it was time to host the Pub Meet, which involved Rafe letting everyone know where AAS is going in the next year, John Holloway starting a firey debate on the Symbian Signing programme, and the Grand Prize Raffle for an N-Gage QD, a number of books, and a limited editon Mac – which was won by Rob Butler, Hobbyist Software,who was such a good sport about it. The surprise was the lack of appearance from Sony Erricsson. It’s not like we
didn’t give them enough warning that the meeting was happening, the coverage they would get, and the make up of people in the room. And they had publicly announced it that morning so there was no embargo issues. Definitly a missed opportunity there.
On to the Smartphone Show at London’s Docklands. There’s sure to be a lot more of this report wise and what it all means on AAS in the next few days. Unlike Apple, Symbian don’t peak at their Expo, it’s more a case of steady as she goes, always forwards andupwards. This year was no difference with the public unveiling of the Sony Erricsson P990, the Nokia Enterprise E60, E61
and E70 Series 60 phones, free tools for developers, more information on Symbian Signed (including a zero cost option for freeware and ‘true’ shareware developers)… best head over to the site.
Lots of movement on the OPL front, but I’m holding off for a week or two to commit any news to the net there. But it’s looking very promising for the Series 60 builds.
The timing of the launch of the Exx devices was a touch annoying for me, as the 1pm press briefing was 30 minutes after I had to leave the Smartphone Show. Another Nokia press event, this time in Barcelona, meant a 3pm check-in time at Heathrow and a dash across the tube system. After a brief detour at Piccadilly Circus to follow up some issues from last months PodCastConUK, it was on to Terminal 2 and catching some down time on the Iberia A320 to Spain.
Still feeling down though…
