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Dial-in

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• IRC channel #mobile
• Vidyo Room Warp Core

Agenda

• AIs from last meeting
  
  • Seth/Stuart/Mark/Thomas: define roadmap and actions for delivering language packs in Q2
  • Stuart/John/Thomas: find out how more than one person can push to Android Market - see https://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139626 - meeting on 3/31 - DONE
    
  • Caitlin/Sayer getting nightly.mozilla.org/night implemented by EOW: Bug 540311 and Bug 627075
  • Review Fennec languages, identify top languages (Irina). Done.
    
  • Update on Mobile User Research (Diane)
• New ACTION ITEMS
  

Firefox 4.0.1 (launched April 28): User Feedback Update

• as of 5/15/2011: 2084614 downloads, 931912 active (44.7%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 7595 / 4513 / 4234 / 3229 / 4217 = 3.34 stars average
  
• Firefox 5 BETA and beyond
  
  • Goals and schedules
  • Project Plan Update and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
    
  • Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
    
• New Feature Documentation
  • Mobile Eng Team: Master Sheet  (<-- this is our single source of truth; request access if you can't view the doc)
  • Cross-project feature and release documentation (derived from our Master Sheet):
    
    • Flight Tracking: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Flight_Tracking#Mobile
      
    • Feature List: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Mobile
      
    • Feature Pages: linked from Feature List
      
    • New Feature Pages for all ideas features that are related to projects outside of mobile: go here
      
  • Roadmaps: Firefox for mobile | Firefox Home

• Supported device prioritization
  • Irina to be building and maintaining a supported devices database, which will be integrated into the QA Device Compatibility spreadsheet.
  • Devices will be prioritized on an on-going basis. Updates will be shared at the weekly mobile delivery meeting.
  • Priority definitions:
    • P1 - devices which are or are very likely to be popular across multiple regions
    • P2 - devices which are or are likely to be popular in one key market and/or devices with lower penetration
    • P3 - devices with less market traction
  • QA priorities:
    • P1 - devices which will be tested asap.
    • P2 - devices which is good to be testing
    • P3 - devices that would be nice to have tested
  • Engineering priorities? (proposal:)
    • P1 - device-specific bugs are fixed asap?
    • P2 - device-specific bugs should be fixed?
    • P3 - device-specific bugs would be nice to have fixed?

2.0

2.0 planning page

• Proposed schedule

Localization

• Status quo for the multi-locale dashboard (live link): 12 green, 7 signed off, one more pending (ja)

Release Engineering

• RelEng have new shared marketplace account; Fennec 4.0.1 now showing up
• Split repo releases are working, and will most likely continue on through 5.0 release.
• We're aiming for 6.0b1 as our first single repo mobile release.
• Landing bug 557260 at some point this week or next week -- some risk for nightly/depend/try builds; 4.0.x and 5.0bX should be unaffected.
  • This unblocks work towards 6.0 release automation

QA

• Performing sanity checks for Fx5 beta builds
• Testday this Friday for Firefox 5, send out the word!
• We're beginning Device Compatibility checking as well, please share the survey link

Marketing & PR

• Firefox Beta going live tomorrow, 5/20
  
• Mobile Adoption plan for Q3/Q4 (media buy, partnerships) - will provide deck next week
  
• Game On: II [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Gaming]
  
• Spark EOL: June 1st - On Track

Feedback Summary

Support

• Mobile SUMO metrics
• Added a note about the device survey to the What's up with SUMO video
• Filed bugs for mobile search 658297 and 658291

UX and User Research

Design

• Ian out for next few weeks - send things to Madhava instead
• see dev meeting notes for detailed breakdown
• Aiming for v6:
  • First-run (language selection and discoverability)
    • First run flow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/49885370@N03/5733659893/in/photostream
    • Language selection in preferences: http://www.flickr.com/photos/49885370@N03/5735218463/
  • Form Assistant Android integration
  • Error page rework (mockukp)
  • Gingerbread theme implementation in progress (mockups)- looking good

Research

Insights

Summary below, full update here

Dolphin HD 5.0 beta was released, featuring a new "Speed Dial-style" New Tab with Google search, Facebook, Twitter and Most Visited integration. Dolphin HD has also made a partnership to come preinstalled on the Notion Adam Ink tablets.

The next Nexus device expected this year and featuring Ice Cream Sandwich is likely to be running on a chipset of the NVidia Tegra 3 series. Other OEMs have also showed interest for the chipsets, which are expected to be shipped in devices this fall.

Yet another security exploit has been exposed concerning Android's ClientLogin protocol when using open WiFi networks.

Intel is pushing further to penetrate the smartphone chipset market for their x86 architecture

Nokia is developing their mobile location service for the Indian market.

• Devices:
  • The Dell Streak 10/Pro to be launched in June. Specs: 1GHz Tegra 2 dual-core chip and 1GB of RAM 1
  • The Motorola Droid X2 to be available on pre-order May 26th from Verizon. Specs: Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor, ULP GeForce GPU, Tegra 2 chipset, 512 MB RAM. Priority 1 , http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_droid_x2-3959.php 2
  • Motorola Droid 3 to be released in Q3 2011, rumoured specs: dual core 1 GHz OMAP 4 Texas Instruments processor, PowerVR SGX 540 GPU. Priority: 1 3
  • Samsung Exhibit 4G, HTC Sensation 4G and the Samsung Gravity Touch 2 launch on June 8th on T-Mobile. 4
  • HTC Lead specs: dual-core 1.2GHz processor (MSM8660), 768 RAM 5
  • Toshiba Regza T-01C, Sharp LYNX 3D SH-03C, Toshiba IS04 (1 GHz CPU), Sony Ericsson Xperia arc SO-01C (specs needed) - if supported, P2

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