Moving forward I will be joining SlideRocket as the Director of Technology. I am really excited about what SlideRocket is doing and I think the technology will change the face of presentations. The team is amazing and I cannot wait to get started.

And to the Slider team – I look forward to using the mobile framework ASAP!

Both sessions have completely new content so it won’t be a repeat from MAX. I will post the slides when I return.

In the iPhone dev session I will be covering 10 tips for creating applications. I will be using several applications that I have built, and that are on the app store, as examples. Some of the before and after results are significant so it should be interesting. More after the conference.

As for Slider, I will be presenting additional information on the projects progress with details around performance, skinning, and most importantly the Screens feature.

If you are attending and have specifics you want covered on either topic feel free to let me know.

Motorola today announced DROID, the first device powered by Android 2.0 and features the brainpower and breakneck speed of a modern smartphone. DROID is designed to outperform where other smartphones fall short. It features a solid exterior, intelligent interior and is one of the thinnest full-QWERTY slider phones available. DROID delivers high-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, a customizable large touch screen and access to thousands of apps and hundreds of widgets from Android Market.

Key features of DROID include:

·         World’s thinnest slide-out QWERTY keyboard
·         3G Web and full HTML browser
·         Cinematic 3.7” high-resolution display with more than 400,000 pixels
·         Powerful and fast Google voice-activated search
·         Run up to 6 apps simultaneously
·         Customize the homescreen with apps and widgets from the Android Market
·         5 megapixel camera with flash, DVD-quality video capture and 16GB memory card included
·         Integrated work and personal email pushed right to you
·         Google Maps Navigation (Beta) with free turn-by-turn directions

DROID by Motorola will be available Nov. 6 online and in stores from Verizon Wireless, nation’s largest and most reliable 3G network. Follow them on twitter.

The keyboard looks great. And the built-in and free turn by turn navigation is awesome, I am glad they are raising the bar by making it a built-in feature. This is a good example of why you need to care about screen resolution. Slider will be able to help make sure your mobile flex content is usable on high resolution devices with the Device Independent Sizing feature. More on that soon. The camera sounds very high quality but I have learned that you never know if it is any good until you try it for yourself, so I look forward to that.