Slick.. cough cough: http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/23/htc-hero-review/

Off-topic: I would have bought it already if it had an OMAP3 inside.

"Essentially, almost every aspect of Android has been reskinned and tweaked on the Hero. From the windowshade notification area to the dialer, HTC has left its mark across the device -- and it's a pretty handsome mark. The general design is much more on par with contemporaries such as the Pre, iPhone, and recent versions of the BlackBerry OS. You probably know what that means: lots of alpha layers, dark, shiny blacks and grays, and the occasional brightly colored highlight hue. It's all extremely slick -- if you didn't know Android well, you might assume it's a completely different OS... and maybe that's what HTC is hoping."

Of course such an UI gets sluggish some times with the HW it has atm, but damn even the widgets also look amazing.

Competitors have been putting the bar up constantly. If anything I think the Maemo Summit would need to be Nokia's answer to all that. Going to the Summit should be like peeking to the far distant, almost sci-fi mobile future.

Remember that you are not going to win by just copying or emulating a competitor - you need to go even further ahead. Offer something new and amazing no one else has. Then you will be the leader again.

There is a major timing issue in the Maemo Summit 2009 schedule: three similar topics are covered in simultaneous tracks: UI Design, UX panel and OpenGL (Friday 15:00). Those tracks would have the same audience despite the presentations being from the different point of view. I really think that UI and UX issues are really important for those who are developing with OpenGL!

I must concur with this. At least I cannot decide which one to attend, since I would like to attend all of these. I, too, thinks the schedule for these sessions should be organized better.

I agree.

We could bump the OpenGL talk to 16.00 if there is no objections from Kate Ahola and the UI talk to 16.30, again if there are no objections from the Digia/User Experience Team.

Does the OpenGL talk belong in the platform developer track in the first place? In fact most of the talks currently on the platform track sound like they should be in the app dev track instead.

Got it. I'll move Open GL ES to 17.30. UI design of Maemo 5 will be handled hopefully a second time on Saturday.

Not necessarily does Open GL ES belong on platform track, but I got plenty of stuff for apps track still and I don't expect 200 peope to code on Open GL ES. Am I wrong?

We have similar issues in the community days. Some presentations related to application developers will be held in the platform track, due to the lack of submissions for the platform track and the big amount of good submissions for the application developers track.

Well, I'd expect most of the platform talks (eg connectivity, power management and so on) to come from Nokians. Let's give them some time to come back from holidays and organise their schedules etc :-)