But is your PHONE ready for Lotusphere?

With only 2 weeks to go until Lotusphere I just realized I have to prepare for the shock of living out of my... phone, away from the comfort of my all powerful laptop. I'll have the laptop, but my main mode of connectedness will be my smartphone.  So how to prepare? For that I turned to those available on the im.bleedyellow Sametime server...

Question: What are 3 must have phone apps you should have for Lotusphere and do you have any tips....In no particular order...

Chris Toohey:  The sessions database, gTalk and twitterberry. Tips... "I'm going to WAP-enable SOTU and get it out there that way, you can issue remote console commands via a wap browser to your server from your WAP browser-havin' phone so, I'd def recommend THAT one, once it's released "

John Head: Twitterberry, facebook, and personal calendar. Tips... "get a portable charging device, like the callpod fueltank. recharges most blackberries about 4 times before its dead. so the device stays charged all day ".  and "set the ringer to vibrate on the plane to Orlando .. don't take it off vibrate to the plane home".

Karl-Henry Martinsson: Twibble for twittering, Google Sync to synchronize calendar between Google and Blackberry, Google maps for the Blackberry (or any cell phone), and LS09 Session Database.

Paul Mooney: The Turtle Group Sessions DB, currency calculator and weather app. Tip... Learn the silent mode

So, its unanimous. Have an easy on-ramp to Twitter, the sessions database and put your phone on vibrate.

The best advice I can give requires a single document in the Journal database. Every trip I go on I prepare a trip 'one sheet'. I usually name it "1111 Lotusphere 2007" or "11111111 Lotusphere 2008" to have it show up at the top of the list. Then, in order, I add...

Name of Event/Trip
Room number (just the number so if I loose the phone I don't get any midnight callers).
Ped / both numbers (for Axceler.com) for the showcase floor
My Flight Numbers and times
Names and Phone numbers of everyone I'll be there with.
Then a quick list for the hotel and where we plan to eat (and the menu ....
Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel
1500 Epcot Resorts Blvd, Lake Buena Vista, FL, 32830
407-934-4000
Palm Restaurant (Orlando)
5800 Universal Blvd, Orlando, FL 32819
407-503-7256

http://www.thepalm.com

http://www.thepalm.com/menu.cfm?menu_id=324

Notice the single line address, this makes it easy to copy and paste into the google map app if you need to. Always fun if you want to check the route of the taxi or the Mears shuttle.

I then live out of this document. And make random notes for when i get back home. As far as applications go, I just started adding them so I don't really know what I'm missing. Up until this point I have gotten by on http://m.planetlotus.org and http://m.planetlotus.org/twitter.php, hence the investigation into this topic.