[Samsung Gear 2] varunc:
Gear2cam

Hi folks. I am the developer for the Gear2cam app that is currently live in the Gear 2 store.

I am an entrepreneur, and my first company tenCube focussed on Mobile Security for hand phones. As you can see, I have been on XDA Developers for quite some time now. Our mobile security app was built in 2005 - before the iPhone, before Android. We built for Symbian, Windows Mobile (it was not called Windows Phone back in the day), Blackberry, Android and iPhone.

I even have a patent in my name:

US7971229

You can find out more about me by doing a Google search for:

"Varun Chatterji"

We sold tenCube to McAfee in 2010.

I am thankful to the XDA developers community for the support it provided us in the early days especially with Windows Mobile development. Please look at my joining date for this forum.

I am writing here due to a very strange event that has occurred. Gerrit Kleyn Winkel has developed another application by the same name as mine.

I noticed this thread and that there is some confusion regarding the app since it has the same name.

I thought I would clear up the confusion. I had requested Gerrit to change the name of the app so as to avoid confusion.

Just to establish the origin of the idea and some dates, I would invite you to look at my opensource project on github

Username: vchatterji

Project: Sony

I am also a photographer

The original idea started with writing a NodeJS app to control Sony camera to do time lapse photography.

I then participated in the Startup Asia Singapore 2014 Hackathon which was sponsored, in part, by Samsung.

The dates of the Hackathon can be found here:

startupasia.techinasia.com/sg2014/hackathon/

I also own:

1. http://www.gear2cam.com/ (initial prototype video can also be found there)

2. Twitter: [MENTION=2715074]gear2cam[/MENTION]

3. Facebook: gear2cam

I noticed that there has been some negative feedback from users on this forum regarding Facebook login. I assure this community that we will never use your Facebook login to post on your feed without your permission EVER.

I hope for your understanding and support.

I have tried to clarify my intent and character in this post. I hope you all will support me in my app.

If you would like to see more of my research and work:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Varun_Chatterji

Again, I hope for your support and understanding. This is a very unfortunate incident where two developers seem to have picked the same app and app name! I do not hold anything against Gerritt and I hope he doesn't hold anything against me either.

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Also, if you would like to see the kind of app we developed (UI/UX/Functionality), it used to be called WaveSecure when we sold it to McAfee. Now it is called McAfee Mobile Security (you can download from the store).

Thanks for your understanding and support in this matter.

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One more thing to consider in the establishment of "priority date":

The first post on this forum by Geritt was on the 16th of May.

The video that he posted on YouTube was also on the 16th of May.

I invite you to go over to GoDaddy and do a WHOIS search for gear2cam.com

You will find it was registered on (11th May):

2014-05-11 00:16:15

Now, the team name and idea were publicly known at the Hackathon (we were one of the winners):

techinasia.com/tag/gear2cam/

YET, I hold no grudge against Geritt. I just hope he will change the name of his app.

The dates are all presented before you. I rest my case.

Mod Edit: There is another app with a very similar name here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2753288