The rumors had been bouncing around since Day 1. Its name had been whispered over lunch tables around TechEd. Circled by many on their personal timetable pages as a “Do Not Miss” event, WAMSP brings you first hand coverage from…
Mobile Smackdown!
Hannibal, Murdoch, B.A. Baracus and of course, face (i.e. the M-Team), took us on a wild ride around the current world of Windows Mobile devices, while injecting a bit of team spirit with swag throwers around the room and heaps of mini-mobile games that lead to giveaways of high-end devices such as the new Palm Treo and HTC Touch Diamond.
The M-Team:
And Colonel Decker even made an appearance:
Colonel Decker was also in on the party, travelling towards the M-Team’s location in realtime.
Between different demos people from the audience were brought up for miscellaneous games including, mobile Guitar Hero 3, eating cat food (!!!) for a mobile phone (3), and even a bench pressing competition. Who said that geeks can’t do push ups?
Congrats to all those who won things – especially the guys who ate the strudel & catfood and especially the guys who did the pushups and dispelled any myths about geeks being out of shape (I bet some of them are *cough* Wii Fit *cough* owners).
Some of the demo’ed devices (the on-screen interfaces reflect what is happening on the actual device):
One thing I was particularly impressed with was the lack of targeted competition bashing. There were small jabs, such as the consumption of apple & blackberry strudel, little reminders that sometimes it’s nice to be able to replace a battery and a small video about Google’s Android, but all in all it was kept friendly and humorous. Everyone was amicable – when someone emailed in to participate in a challenge and left the footer “Sent from my iPhone”, this was taken extremely well by the presenters. It’s nice to participate in an extremely fun (and loud) presentation about products and their capabilities rather than a clear competition bashing fest.
Google take a beating from CNet
There was also a viewing of the cool unboxing of the Omnia i900. Not a Microsoft movie (or Samsung) as such, but well worth the watch.
Kudos go out to the smackdown team (Windows Mobile in Australia, Rog42) as well who organised a massively awesome session with giveaways that literally, rained down from the sky!
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