Posted by Kieran on July 21, 2010 under Android, Mobile | 
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My contribution from the Bathcamp evening meet #14 organised by Mike Ellis and Sam Machin
Posted by Kieran on February 22, 2010 under Android, Mobile | Be the First to Comment
Slides from the February Android meetup
Posted by Kieran on September 7, 2009 under Android, Spotify | Be the First to Comment
One of the great advantages and potential minefield of Android, is the simple fact that an application does not need to be in the Android Market as Spotify have clearly illustrated
http://www.spotify.com/en/mobile/overview/install-for-android/
Clearly this is aimed at the Finish owners of Android handsets where there is no Android Market.
The downsides of this ad hoc distribution is that an application could potentially be malicious and just alter the users dialler to re route calls through a premium number, (similar things happened back in the days of dialup with peoples machines getting compromised by malware)
However the pros for the consumer and third party developer are much like the internet and that seems to manage quite well despite the threat off malicious software getting installed on an end users device
Posted by Kieran on under Android, J2ME, Mobile, Spotify, iPhone | Be the First to Comment
Congratulations to Spotify on the launch of their mobile client for iPhone and Android, Videos of which can be seen below
iPhone Video
Android Video
One thing that strikes me as a little odd though is the amount of coverage this application is getting, if I want a DRM music solution for a mobile phone there is another option, Nokia comes with Music which wont cost £120 a year…..
Maybe the catalogue is much better on Spotify this is obviously enough of a draw, I have been pleased with Spotify and even paid for a few day passes, so would be tempted to purchase a subscription to utilize this on my G1 if it had a standard headphone socket (I seem to consume ear buds in my sleep) or if the iPhone if it could play in the background, as the times I am listening to music on my iPhone is usually on the train when I like to clear email etc.
Maybe this has all come down to clever marketing on the part of Spotify compared to a seemingly more complex solution even though it is easier Comes With Music solution
Sonys Walkman phones would be a seemingly obvious addition as well going back to one of my earlier posts!
Posted by Kieran on July 14, 2009 under Android, J2ME, Mobile, iPhone | Be the First to Comment
Presentation slides from OpenMIC held in Bristol 2009
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Presentation slides from OpenMIC held in Bath 2009
Posted by Kieran on November 30, 2008 under Android, Mobile | Be the First to Comment
Having recently delivered the Android workshop with Carl Harroch from Novoda at the Future Of Mobile 2008, we have made the slides available at
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dc2cgzjn_72grzmfqcv