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More (Real) Screenshots of the Windows Mobile 6.5 [Windows Mobile]

Here are some more (leaked) screenshots of the Windows Mobile 6.5. The first screenshot that you see is the use of same homescreen that you see in the Windows Mobile Standard edition that the non-touchscreen Windows Mobile devices. The second screenshot shows the honeycomb screen. It appears to be a separate program that can be launched from anywhere as it overlaps the program currently running. This would provide immediate access to basic phone and PIM functions. One can also access the settings from here.

The usage of a really stupid looking bird is quite funny though

More screenshots after the break Continue reading “More (Real) Screenshots of the Windows Mobile 6.5 [Windows Mobile]”

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NC10 9 Cell battery unboxed [Netbook]

UMPCfever have got their hands on teh 9-cell NC10 battery. The NC10 get praises from all the tech bloggers regarding it’s 6+ hours of battery life. That is the story with the 6-cell battery. This makes us wonder, how much juice will the 9-cell battery provide to the NC10? We guess that it will cross the 9 hour battery mark easily with that mammoth battery.

The 9-cell battery is 11.1V 7800mAH. The original battery weighed 365gm and the new battery is just 115gm more, weighing at 470gm. Here is the picture of it with the 9-cell battery installed. Continue reading “NC10 9 Cell battery unboxed [Netbook]”

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Viliv S7 = Impressive! [UMPC]

Looks like SONY is not the only one that has released a luxury netbook. Joining it in the new war of luxury netbooks/UMPCs is the new Viliv S7. The new Viliv comes with a small 7-inch screen and a tablet design. It uses hybrid storage memory scheme meaning you get both SSD and a big HDD under the same hood just like the MSI Wind U115 hybrid.

viliv-s7-impressive-umpc

Features:

Uses 1.33 or 1.86 GHz Intel Atom CPU (SIlverthorne)
7.0-inch display with 1024 x 600 resolution
1.3 megapixel camera
16 GB SSD+60 GB HDD
1GB of RAM
Windows XP
WiFi, Bluetooth
GPS

This UMPC is feature packed with mobile broadband ie WiMax so that you are always connected. It weighs a mere 800gm making it a great portable device. Read Viliv S7 review here.

 

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Get a free LG X110 in UK [Netbook]

We have covered the LG X110 in the past too, which looks a lot like the MSI Wind netbook. The major difference being the inclusion of 3G module. The difference between the LG X110 and the MSI Wind is the use of better casing in X110. It has the same  comfortable keyboard found in MSI Wind.

Here are the specifications of X110:

  • 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor
  • 10-inch WSVGA LCD
  • 1GB (DDR2 533MHz) RAM
  • 160GB HDD
  • RF Receiver – HSUPA
  • 82 Key full keyboard
  • 1.3 megapixel camera
  • Windows Vista OS
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
  • 3-cell battery/6-cell optional
  • 3 USB Ports

The funny part is that if you go for the free-netbook plan, you would have paid nearly $1000 to your network provider.

[slashgear]

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Samsung NC10 in Blue [Netbook]

Just a couple of days back, we told you about the the Samsung NC10 which was released with the pink color. Now, it is available in blue. There is no difference in feature set of the original NC10 and the blue version of it.

Samsung NC10 in Blue

Specs of the Blue Samsung NC10:

Item Weight 1.3 Kg
Product Dimensions 30 x 22 x 10 cm
Item model number NP-NC10-KA02UK
Form Factor NetBook
Screen Size 10.2
Processor Brand Intel ®
Processor Type Atom N270
Processor Speed 1.6 GHz
Processor Count 1
RAM Size 1 GB
Hard Drive Size 160
Graphics Card Description Media Accelerator 950
Operating System Windows XP Home
Lithium Battery Weight 695 grams

While most of the (male) professionals would not like to carry the pink color along with them, the blue color would be less embarrassing to carry. Personally, I would still go for the black color. [NotebookItalia]

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Some tips to Optimise your HP mini 1000 [Netbook]

There is an ongoing discussion going over at MyHPMini forums regarding optimizing your HP Mini 1000. The tips and tricks are dividing into 2 sections: one regarding optimizing the speed and other regarding optimizing the storage.

Optimise your HP mini 1000

Speed

2 GB RAM upgrade (PC2-4200 one stick) from Corsair or Centon (tiger direct). It gives you more memory, so more memory demanding programs will run well. Some examples of programs that I’ve found that run better are Office 2007, Picassa, and Quicken
RAM caching or RAMdisk: Some of the “lagginess” you might be noticing with web browsers and other programs can be attributed to slower SSD/hard drive speeds. By putting your internet cache on your RAM (RAMCache), you lose that lagginess

Read ApoTheTech’s RAMdisk article here

Storage Capacity

Get a big SDHC card like 16 GB SDHC card (currently selling for around $30 on various online stores)
Move “My Documents” to SDHC card – see this link for more information on how to do that
Move windows XP temporary files directory to SDHC card
On-line file storage: There are many free on-line file storage services out there. Here are the ones I know about: box.net ( 1 GB free ), adrive.com (50 GB free, sync software with paid), Microsoft Skydrive (5 GB free, no desktop sync option), and http://www.mesh.com (5 GB free plus synchronization software).

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Fennec to be released for Windows Mobile in February! [Windows Mobile]

Mozilla is all set to release Fennec for Windows Mobile next month. They are in the final stages to rule out some minor bugs and then it will be released for the HTC TOUCH PRO.

Here are the words from folks at Mozilla itself

We are targeting a Milestone release for the first week of February, targeting the HTC touch pro. We are two patches away from the meta goal of building from trunk.

Although from their words, they are targeting just HTC TOUCH PRO at this moment, but we are pretty sure, it would run on devices like HTC DIAMOND just fine. For those who don’t know what is Fennec, it is a version of the Firefox browser adapted for mobile phones and other small computing devices.

There are already many web browsers for Windows Mobile available just Windows PCs, but Firefox rules over all of them. The release of Fennec is very important for the Windows Mobile as the IE mobile 6 is still in it’s infancy stage and is too slow on the current hardware.

Thanks to Larry for the tip!

[mozilla link]

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Read ApoTheTech‘s HTC TOUCH PRO review

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i-mate is not dead! I-mate to launch a new smartphone at Mobile World Congress [Windows Mobile]

To all those who though that i-mate is dead, you are all wrong. I-mate is all set to launch it’s revolutionary device powered by Windows Mobile at Mobile World Congress, 2009 that is going to be held next month.

i-mate will be unveiling its brand new product – one which sees them break new grounds with a revolutionary mobile device that’s like nothing else.

We have seen in the past too that i-mate often announces great devices, but fails to deliever them at right time. A couple of years back, when they announced their revolutionary “Ultimate series”, they promised to shake the whole mobile market, but they failed to deliver them on time. Nearly after an year, they came out with “ultimate range”. But, by then, they were already surpassed by the competition and the whole “ultimate range” utimately failed.

We hope that their so-called “revolutionary” device is made available in the market soon after it’s announcement.

via MSmobiles

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Will ACER Smartphone be powered by Windows Mobile OS? [Windows Mobile]

Acer is going it’s first Acer branded smartphone on February 16, 2009. It will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress coming this February. It has been quite a while since the Acer acquired the company Eten. Since then, we have heard numerous rumours of Acer branded smartphone.

Will ACER Smartphone be powered by Windows Mobile OS

Now, the main question that comes to our mind is: Will it be powered by Windows Mobile? Chances are that yes, it will be powered by Windows Mobile since the Eten licence for Windows Mobile has not expired yet.

All I want is the Acer to use the Intel PXA930 800MHz processor (also used by ASUS P565) or the 1GHz processor by Marvel and not the pathetic Qualcomm processors which power the latest Touch series by HTC (including Diamond, Touch HD and Pro). [via pocket-lint]