Hello Everyone!

Those of you who attended my introductory speech will remember the desire to have major mobile operators in this country provide devices for us to develop and debug on. Alex Donn, a developer advocate with AT&T, has enthusiastically stepped up to work with us!

He will be providing some of the top end AT&T phones (no, not that phone. The Android phones!) for you to play with, get your hands on and test your applications on here at the game room at F5 Networks.

The phones will not be tied to a desk. You will be able to pick them up, connect them to your laptop, run ADB, capture logcat traffic, and actually validate that everything on your application does, indeed, work properly.

The initial guest list (phones):

• Dell Aero
  
• Motorola Backflip
  
• Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
  
• HTC Aria
  

Note: if you have specific phones AT&T offers that you would like Alex to bring, please let me know directly or in the questions on the RSVP page!

There will be WiFi and power provided, as well as drinks. Depending on turnout, there may even be pizza! I will keep the doors open as long as you guys need the time, so consider this an opportunity to get some serious work done, as well as some serious socialization while playing with these awesome new devices!

Speaking of turnout, I will be honest with you: the likelihood that we can turn this into a repeating event depends entirely on how many of you come to these first few sessions. If there's a reason why this event doesn't work for you -- timing, device selection, interest -- let me know, so I can adjust accordingly.

On a more practical note, please bring a photo ID and a credit card with you. The devices will be available on a 'checkout' basis FOR FREE (I won't do anything with the cards, they're just a placeholder), but I will need some tokens to keep things on an even keel.

Otherwise, have a great Labor Day weekend, and I'll see you then!

Cheers,
--Benn