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The day started off with a nice traditional breakfast as a group. We then got to our seats to get started. John Starkweather talks and welcomes all the attendees. We then went around the room to introduce ourselves.  Click the read more for the list of attendees…

The 2nd day started out with Derek Snyder from Microsoft demonstrates some new items coming soon for Windows Mobile. He showed some powertoys coming soon as well as some demos of the upcoming AKU3 update and an Xbox Live demo on a smartphone. Pretty exciting stuff to come guys!

Next Nick White showed off some great things about Vista followed by a demo of the Mobile Device Center in Vista.  ( see video )

After lunch, Rafe Blandford (allaboutSymbian) gave a very detailed overview of the state of the business for Symbian.

The next speaker was very passionate and a fun speaker, Jim Morrison, CEO of I-Mate. Jim was fun and talked about the state of business with I-Mate. He also crushed a couple device naming myths and told a story about how the JAQ came to be, apparently a coporate customer asked for a full function Windows Mobile device that was intentionally "Ugly". This customer wanted something that did what they needed, but was ugly enough not to be stolen. Jim also announced that I-mate is to release 15 new devices, many of them unique devices only available to I-mate, over the next 12 months. They are moving to a new structure for devices, I-mate will break its devices into three different classes: "Ultimate" for the High End Guys, "Stealth" – Consumer Grade and "Light" (lower end mass-market devices).

Next up was Brian from Sling Media to talk about their new lineup of Sling Players. See Story here.

Finally, a ComVu demo of some really nice streaming video applications for Mobile Devices using a web based control center. Some REALLY nice stuff!

We then loaded up and cruised over to the Harbor for Dinner and Sailing for a couple hours, see photos.

Here is a list of the attendees:

Check out Day 1

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