Update: There will be a demonstration of 3 Moblin Smartphones tomorrow.
These images were taken at the Moblin event at Computex. The phone was used to highlight the next step for Moblin MediaPhones. Voice-enabled internet and media-focused slates.
This isn’t something you’ll be able to buy this year because it’s Moorestown based and that’s coming in 2010 but it is a working model (not demonstrated) running with Moblin 2 (I assume Moblin 2 with additions for touch and Moorestown because I don’t think the drivers and audio apps are baked into the Beta you can download today.)
We’ve been promised hands-on with this either later today or early tomorrow and hoping to record the first public Moorestown hands-on. ‘MediaPhone’ was the keyword used in the conference.
Stay tuned for more details, better pics and some hands on videos over the next few days.
While UMPC is hardly a term people pay attention to already, this is the beginning of the same trend regarding MIDs. MIDs will turn into a handheld device which is integrated with a cellular phone.
Just like Netbooks are now getting into the 12″-13.3″ range. consolidation. You have a desktop, laptop and a handheld.
I wonder what Intel has to say about the Archos new device with Android on it. Will that have cell phone capabilities as well?
Photos without an apostrophe!
Oh my, this might be a nice platform for those of us who don’t want to go with Symbian or Windows mobile. (The iPhone is a better option to any S60 system of course, but it’s still not for everyone.)
However, no matter how good the hardware is, it’s up to the software to make it a killer product.
Good point…the #1 reason why the iphone is successful is simple — software. I can name a handful of other devices that have better or similar (almost as good) hardware to the iphone: toshiba TG01, Samsung i8910, Nokia N97…so why are they not popular? Simple, TG01’s user interface is laggy and ugly, and S60v5 looks about a decade obsolete. You can throw the best hardware in the world on a device, but if the software isn’t user friendly, lag free, and intuitive, people will not want to use it.
But then on the other hand, the Iphone can’t even do multitasking and has silly resitrictions like what media codecs it can and can’t support, not to mention what kind of Apps AT&T wants you running on their network that you pay to have access to….
We need some kind a middle ground — an open platform that is both feature packed and user friendly with an intuitive user interface.
Sounds so simple, yet companys have been failing for years to achieve it — just look at Symbian on the i8910 or N97; it’s a joke.
This is it, finally the convergence of Phone + Full Computer capabilities.
Not like those half bake OS iphoneos, andriod, windows mobile, webos, maemo, the time has finally arrive!