Well, we went ahead and did a frame-by-frame analysis of the ultra mobile PC preview video intel has up here.
[b]Play, Listen, Enjoy[/b]
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We’re starting with the game playing video because, hey, we love games. A young man is playing games on his house on what looks like a PC, and then his friends arrive so he has to go. In this shot, we can see him holding the stylus and looking at a few interesting icons: Napster, Games, and Synch.
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In this shot, he has selected sync, and then selects “Sync Game State.” It seems like he might then be able to go to his friends house, and load up the same game on his friends PC, preserving the state. Pretty cool.
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Later on, in this scene, he uses napster to synch his home PC music files with his ultra mobile PC files. Then he hopes in his friends car and pressumably kicks back and listens to some road tunes.
[b]Connect and Communicate[/b]
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This scene shows the ultra mobile PC being used as a camera. The screen makes a really nice, large viewfinder, and you can see the slide-out panel that contains control buttons. Not a bad blouse either.
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After snapping a photo of the blouse, she folds the panel around to reveal a small keyboard and opens up an Instant Messenger interface. She then chats up her boyfriend and sends him the pic she just took.
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This is a close-up shot of the chat application.
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Later on, she goes to some type of price compare website to see if she is getting a good deal. Hmm, this would be quite interesting if you could just scan a UPC and see the prices at other locations.
[b]Mix work and Pleasure[/b]
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Moving on to our next Ultra Mobile Tablet PC, this user pulls up an Alt-Tab like interface and chooses what application to launch.[img]http://origamiportal.com/origami/images/umpc/intel_umpc/9.jpg[/img]
After selecting some type of video/tv cataloging software, the user scrolls through a series of TV shows.
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Close-up shot of the TV show software. Desperate Housewives fan apparently. Nice.
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Here, we can see an ‘Urgent’ notice LED light up next to the control knob he was using earlier to cycle through TV shows.
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A better Desperate Housewives shot, just for you ladies.
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After receiving the Urgent Message (which was from an incoming email), the user swivels the ultra mobile PC around to reveal a keyboard. Pretty slick looking.
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Back-shot.
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The urgent notice was about doing a touch-up on a presentation. Here we can see the user pull out the stylus and draw some notes on the screen.
[b]Find and adapt[/b]
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Chatting up a friend over IM, ready to do some shopping.
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Another, slide-out keyboard interface.
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Dynamic mapping software, probably taking advantage of the PC’s GPS capabilities.
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A better shot of the mapping software, that displays individual stores and even highlights a store where a sale is going on.
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Very nice Intel.
[b]Update 3/7/06 3:55 PM[/b]
You also check out the full video here. [i]- Thanks Veredus[/i]
