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MOBILE DELIVERY! BMEx VIRTUAL APRIL --- 7pm 4-29
The BMEx Virtual experience continues Wednesday April 29th at 7pm, once again (NOT) in MIT room 3-133.
As we are all (mostly) indoors – this month we’ll be looking and
comparing mobile and pickup delivery services from the free to the
strange and sublime. Meals, groceries, liquor all can be dropped at
your doorstep. … as well as the hacks that might make it easier to
use!
You may never need to leave the house again.
JOIN US ONLINE!
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/279373389
You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (571) 317-3112
Access Code: 279-373-389
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Future of Smartphones 3/12 7pm MIT 3-133
On Tuesday March 12th at 7pm, MIT room 3-133, the Boston Media Experience presents a discussion of general and unexpected mobile computing topics. The meeting is free, and open to all users of mobile technology.
The spring thaw has commenced, the sun shines late into the night, and
Tuesday looks like a perfect night to be in Cambridge– Given recent
developments of Apple looking beyond the smartphone, and now that the
MWC has just completed in Barcelona, we will be looking at what comes
next for smartphones and mobile tech in general.
We are back in our natural home MIT 3-133 for the next months, and we hope to see you all there!
The Boston Mobile Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area Technology professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 2nd Tuesday of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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5G Wireless @ FEB BMEx Meeting
On Tuesday February 19th at 7pm, MIT room 3-333, the Boston Media Experience presents a discussion of general and unexpected mobile computing topics. The meeting is free, and open to all users of mobile technology.
At the February meeting we’ll be looking at the latest developments with
5G Mobile Broadband both on the technical AND political side!
Note we will not be in our usual room 3-133 but instead (this month only) 3-333
Join US!
The Boston Mobile Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area Technology professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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Mercury heated jacket (Winter Wearables) + BMEx Holiday X-Travaganza 12/18 MIT 3-133
On Tuesday December 18th at 7pm, MIT room 3-133, the Boston Media Experience presents a discussion of general and unexpected mobile computing topics. The meeting is free, and open to all users of mobile technology.
The December Meeting is our legendary Holiday meetup with plenty of lively conversation and good cheer!
We will be showing live, in person the Boston based, MIT bred Ministry
of Supply’s brand spanking new Mercury intelligent, smarthphone
controlled (sort of) heated jacket + a look at near wearables for the
brutal months ago. Also, a look at Wear OS 3 watches, Apple’s new
health certified wearable and MUCH MORE!
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The Boston Mobile Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area Technology professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 2nd (or 3rd) Tuesday of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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Wear OS3+Yoga Book 2 LIVE TONIGHT! 7pm MIT 3-133 @ BMEX 10/23
On Tuesday October 23rd at 7pm, MIT room 3-133, the Boston Media Experience presents a discussion of general and unexpected mobile computing topics. The meeting is free, and open to all users of mobile technology.
At the October Meeting, we will have live demos of the newly released Wear OS 3, plus the new Lenovo Yoga Book 2– the followup to Lenovo’s unique 2016 pen drawing tablet/virtual keyboard mobile device.
The new Wear OS 3(the operating system formerly known
at Android Wear) features simplified navigation, and a focus on fitness
tracking and improved battery life.
The next gen Lenovo Yoga book C930 (not sure what the
‘C930’ stands for) sports an e-ink dynamic keyboard (big upgrade from
the silk screened version from 2016– which means that the keyboard can
be reconfigured on the fly for different languages– and can also be
used as a e-ink reader and drawing pad.
… and (egads) runs Windows 10 …
The Boston Mobile Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area Technology professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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RED HYDROGEN LIVE at BMEx 9/25, 7pm@MIT 3-133
SEPTEMBER 25th, MIT 3-133 7pm
We will have live in person the limited edition, no-glasses holographic, machined aircraft aluminum Red Hydrogen ‘Houdini’ at a special BMEx Event!
This is an amazing and groundbreaking device. The Holographic 3D effect done in real time in the first phone designed by Digital Cinema innovator RED Camera using technology from Leia Inc. needs to be seen in person!
SEE IT YOURSELF … and decide if it lives up to the hype!
The Boston Mobile Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area technology professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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TicWatch PRO at BMEX August 21st, 7pm MIT 3-133
On Tuesday August 21st at 7pm, MIT room 3-133, the Boston Media Experience presents a discussion of general and unexpected mobile computing topics. The meeting is free, and open to all users of mobile technology.
LIVE in person at the August meeting– the TicWatch PRO. This is new from Mobovi, and runs Google’s Wear OS – with the added special feature of a 2nd low power LCD display, promising Pebble-like battery life of many days from a Wear OS smartwatch.
We’ll also be discussing changes in app store rules and regs which have led to the exclusion of many popular apps (including one we know well!)
The Boston Mobile Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area Technology professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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'Flic' Hub + Lishtot water tester at BMEx Meeting, TONIGHT-- July 17th, 7pm MIT 3-133
Summer
is heating up – tomorrow looks like a great night to beat the heat and
join us in delightfully air conditioned MIT 3-133 for the July BMEx
meeting.
At the July meeting, we’ll be looking at (demo in person) the newly
released ‘Flic’ button hub from Sweden, and also CES award winning
Lishtot water test device (cool tiny tech uses RF to detect if water is
clean or contaminated!)
… and we’ll be checking out any and all news on what’s happening on
the mobile front (including another delay on the RED Hydrogen!)
The Boston Mobile Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area Technology professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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GOOGLE I/O REVIEW at BMEx MAY 15th, 7pm, MIT 3-133!
Looks like an awesome spring evening tomorrow night for a BMEx meeting in our natural location MIT 3-133!
We’ll be looking at what was announced at Google I/O, and also some leaks of a new, large and bezelless iPhone!
Hope to see you all there!
The Boston Mobile
Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area Technology
professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even
implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current
developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 3rd Tuesday
of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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NAB 2018, RED Hydrogen, TESS launch at BMEx Meeting TOMORROW! (4/23) MIT 3-133
We
think it has finally stopped snowing – and it is safe to come out to
this months (delayed) BMEx meeting in our natural home, MIT 3-133, just
off the infinite corridor as usual!
This
month we’ll have a recap of new tech at recently completed NAB 2018 in
Las Vegas, with (some) news about the Red Hydrogen phone – and also
Mike V will be giving us a recap of the launch of the TESS probe last week from Canaveral!
Hope to see you all there!!!
The Boston Mobile
Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area Technology
professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even
implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current
developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 3rd Tuesday
of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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BMEx MEETING TUESDAY 2/27 7PM @MIT 3-133
Last week’s meeting was disrupted by my getting stuck in NYC
due to snow(until Friday!) … but this week Spring has sprung … we
have 3-133, and as always lots to talk about!
Apple keyless
keyboards, Google rebrands Android Wear as ‘Wear OS’ - Baselworld 2018,
new products, Newton 20 years later … and lots more in our natural
home 3-133.
Come out and join us!
The Boston Mobile
Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area Technology
professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even
implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current
developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 3rd Tuesday
of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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HOMEPOD+ANDROID OREO at BMEx MEETING TUESDAY 2/20 7pm @MIT 3-133
The groundhog was spectacularly wrong, spring is here – and the February BMEx meeing will be held in near record breaking weather conditions this Tuesday 2/20 at 7pm in MIT 3-133!
Apple
Homepod is out and living large (yes, that thing could leave a mark!)
and we will be demoing some devices running Android 8.0 Oreo, which is a
pretty cool and useful update.
Come on over on a warm evening and check it all out!
The Boston Mobile
Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area Technology
professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even
implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current
developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 3rd Tuesday
of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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BMEX mtg JAN 23 at MIT 3-133
UPDATE: CONFIRMED– we’re in MIT 3-133, our natural home!
It’s
a new year, and barring blizzards, floods, flu or other calamity (not
necessarily by text message) The Boston Mobile Experience will hold its
first meeting of 2018 January 23rd 7pm at MIT (meet at 3-133, but room
TBD at game time)
CES products roundup, ai assistants, a new $190,000 smartwatch, hacks, apple batteries will all be on the docket … hope to see you all there!
The Boston Mobile Experience is a collection of MIT and Boston Area Technology professionals who are into all things mobile, wearable and possibly even implantable! Looking to the future to discuss and analyze the current developments and trends in mobile technology, we meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month (usually) in MIT 3-133
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Signs of the Apocalypse at BOSPDAUG May 14 7pm@MIT 3-133 Fire...
Signs of the Apocalypse at BOSPDAUG May 14 7pm@MIT 3-133
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
… George Capalbo is switching to Android, tomorrow night, LIVE at BOSPDAUG …
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Apple have to change our perceptions this year
How many groundbreaking devices and concepts have Apple launched over the year? I won’t bother to count them, but one was the iPhone.
No suprise, but you know what? The iPhone 5 needs to be the last iPhone that traces it’s lineage back to June 2007.
My iPhone 4S looks dated, the iPhone 5 is a great piece of kit, it’s slim, light, fast and runs everything I want it to do, but its a Dodo and I hope Apple know it.
Everyone else has caught up. Interfaces have caught up, hardware has caught up and the relevant App stores are getting there too. Even the new Blackberry phone is good - really good, and RIM have some great technology in the works.
Nokias’ Lumia with Metro (I know it isn’t called that anymore, but really? That’s what everyone calls it) could go on a bit of a diet, but it’s good, new phones from Samsung are good too and guess what? They all have something new to offer. The Galaxy Note is really a Newton with a phone - but some people WANT that, the Lumia has a spectacular camera - and people wnat that too. The interfaces are glossy and slick - just like iOS.
I fear that the iPhone is coasting. I fear that Apple have to release a new phone in the old time slot, June as Septemeber will be a year too late. What does this iPhone need to be? It needs to be a groundbreaking device that changes everything and leave the up and comers getting their great new generation 1 devices working whilst the iPhone hits generation 2.
I hope that we see a device that Steve Jobs saw before he died, I hope that I want one, because right now, I have a raft of great smartphones to choose from and the only one that I might overlook is the iPhone.
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Steve’s Last Laugh: Adobe Killing Off Flash For Mobile Devices |...
Steve’s Last Laugh: Adobe Killing Off Flash For Mobile Devices | TechCrunch
Wow.
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Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America...
Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America (exclusive) | VentureBeat
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the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History...
the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
I knew Android fragmentation was bad, but I didn’t know it was this bad. Yikes.
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Codify - YouTube
This looks great. Looks like something we should demonstrate at a future meeting…
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DRAFT: Bospdaug developers group meeting notes
App Cloud
We didn’t have the App Cloud demo; Vlad and company were no-shows. I may end up doing the demo myself at the November developers meeting.
Upcoming meetings
We’ll be in a different room; someone scheduled 3-133 every Tuesday until December. I’ll follow up with MIT to get a new room; stay tuned.
The next users meeting in November 8; Jim Travis agreed to demonstrate the Galaxy Tab 8.9 and maybe some other Android goodies.
Yes, we’ll have the developers meeting on November 22, just before the Thanksgiving holiday. Anyone who can is welcome to come.
iOS 5 for developers
Kris covered lots of stuff regarding iOS 5 development.
The Bospdaug app
Some decisions were made tonight:
- we’re going to develop out in the open on GitHub. If you want to participate, get a GitHub account.
- we’re going to use one of the BSD licenses
- Al made a repository for the project to kick things off
- Check out Pro Git to get up to speed on Git and various workflows.
Meeting links
LLVM is now the only compiler in Xcode 4.2—no more GCC.
Xcode 4.2 was released in the slew of Apple updates last week. It’s available for both Lion and Snow Leopard.
You can still get GCC if that’s how you roll or if you want GCC and LLVM without Xcode.
If there are other Unix tools you need, stop reading right now and install Homebrew, the best package manager for Mac OS X.
Marco Arment’s (of Tumblr and Instapaper fame) Cleaning… blog post, where he describes the change in behavior of iOS 5 that affects apps that previously were able to store data that wasn’t backed up (via iTunes or iCloud) but also wasn’t removed from a device unless the app itself was removed.
Under iOS 5, such data could be removed (“cleaning”) once a device reached a certain threshhold of data without the user’s knowledge. Not good.
Marco covered the issue on his Build and Analyze podcast too.
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