Bad Kitty developer headed to Palm Developer Relations Team 37
With all the people seemingly flowing out of Sunnyvale, it was starting to feel like Palm HQ must be a very empty place. Thankfully, Palm is looking to fill the holes in their staff, and has hired a familiar name from the webOS developer community to join the Palm Developer Relations Team: Jeremy Thomas, though you may know him as @germboy on Twitter and as one of the developers behind the popular Twitter client Bad Kitty.
So our congratulations to Jeremy and Palm. He brings a lot of developing talent to the table and will certainly serve the Developer Relations Team quite well. With everything going on at Palm, there’s still plenty of open desks for those interested, just check Palm’s careers page for the 100+ available jobs in Sunnyvale and across the globe.
Oh, and if you’re worried about the future of Best of 2010 award winner Bad Kitty, fret not: we’ve been assured that it and the rest of the projects under Superinhuman Industries will continue on.
Source: Jeremy Thomas (Twitter)
37 Comments
With which device was the screenshot took? it is even smaller than the pixi resolution!
Photoshop cropping.
Oh, ok. This lack of devices is making me crazy and I was thinking that perhaps HP gave Precentral "the smallest smartphone in the world" for testing, just like they did for the Pre 2.
It's DEFINITELY a new device! The center of the screen shows the date AND the time, unlike any other existing phone. The battery also shows the picture of the battery as well as a text percentage! This does NOT look like a photoshop to me, and if I had to guess, I'd say confidently that this screencap came from 'The Smallest Smartphone Ever'!
The date and battery are patches available in Preware, but I still think it is a new device :P
Can the smallest smartphone in the world be a miniature tablet?
In other words, take the design of Topaz, shrink it and put a Pixi screen on it with a virtual keyboard. It will be very thin, no storage space, just cloud storage and a thin battery.
Also, they can use HPs new paper thin screens.
it's called homebrew patch. Date and time on top bar patch. It's not new device the pres screen picture was croped.
Congrats Jeremy!
Or Derek took a screenshot on his Pre and cut it down because of all the empty gray space.
But yeah, mystery device with a 320x337 screen seems more likely.
Or Derek took a screenshot on his Pre and cut it down because of all the empty gray space.
But yeah, mystery device with a 320x337 screen seems more likely.
Or Derek took a screenshot on his Pre and cut it down because of all the empty gray space.
But yeah, mystery device with a 320x337 screen seems more likely.
Or Derek took a screenshot on his Pre and cut it down because of all the empty gray space.
But yeah, mystery device with a 320x337 screen seems more likely.
Bigtime Congrats to an awesome developer! :) A definite win for HP Palm!
Probably just a Pre or Pre2 with some noticiations cropped out. That's a very weird screen resoloution.
Congrats man...
it was definitely a palm product, the battery is almost critical.
it's definitely a palm device, the battey is almost critical. Ha ha ha
it's definitely a palm device, the battery is almost critical!
Yes, Congrats Jeremy! Now you get to play with and develop for some really cool webOS toys.
Yes! ...we have a new insider.
Congrats @germboy
Wow some of you are really overthinking this. The guy or gal probably just has a lot of notifications on screen. I seriously doubt this is an experimental micro sized phone. LOL.
congrats.... love badkitty, so this is great for hp
Congrats to Jeremy. We're very happy to have him joining us at HP Palm.
woot! congrats! :D
kool
How do you get the date and time to show up on the top of the screen like that? Mine only shows the time.
Big Thumbs UP!
I just hope he gets to do some programming and brings some Bad Kitty love to the webOS core.
It would drive me batty working on the PR side of developer relations and not contributing. Maybe we'll see a facelift or a complete rebuild of Facebook that will incorporate twitter from within the same app. Why not combine the two??? If everything about webOS is make it simple, quick, and more efficient. I guess Palm would then have to change the name. Sorli...
If think big think small alludes to a screen smaller than Pixi's HPalm is definitely FoF
While I congratulate you on joining a great team, please don't be too disappointed when HP eviscerates all excitement from the team and replaces any and all of the original intelligence behind the code with un-caring code-monkeys. I speak from experience and it is and will be a damned shame when WebOS dies a slow and lingering death.
Can the smallest smartphone in the world be a miniature tablet?
In other words, take the design of Topaz, shrink it and put a Pixi screen on it with a virtual keyboard. It will be very thin, no storage space, just cloud storage and a thin battery.
Also, they can use HPs new paper thin screens.
Can the smallest smartphone in the world be a miniature tablet?
In other words, take the design of Topaz, shrink it and put a Pixi screen on it with a virtual keyboard. It will be very thin, no storage space, just cloud storage and a thin battery.
Also, they can use HPs new paper thin screens.
Many congrats!
I'm so honored that Jeremy's joining us on the devrel team. 2011 is gonna kick ass. =]
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Lisa Brewster
Palm Developer Relations
or it could be from a Palm Pre 2 running 2.0.1 with the VK brought up
The Palm Careers page is very interesting. If you reed some of the job opportunities in detail, you get an interesting overwiew of the thing's to come :-)
Yea my Sprint Pre has the same date/time setup at the top of the screen. I HOPE its a new device. Although it may very well be a "patched up" Pre. I hope I'm wrong!!
no offence guys, I think you are doing great job writting all these webos apps, but...
does HPalm have a capacity to hire anyone from the WINNING teams in mobile industry, or only well-promising, but (with all due respect), not terribly experienced semi-amateur or hobbyist developers? Or scraps from the going down in flames (in smartphones market) giant Nokia?
where is that big corporate traction and support brought to the table by HP, (, allegedly), promised nearly a year ago?