Author: Tarandeep Kaur

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HP planning mini 1100 series – more models coming: 1133CL, 1135NR and 1140NR [Netbooks]

More HP mini rumors! According to various souces,, HP is very soon going to unveil another netbook. Rumor has it that HP is going to roll out nine different models in the 1100 series, which includes: 1130NR, 1133CL, 1135NR, 1141NR and a 1100 Vivienne Tam edition. What makes them different from the rest of the netbooks is the inclusion of Express Card slot.

Features of HP Mini 1133CL and HP Mini 1140NR are:

  • 1.60GHz Intel Atom N270
  • 1GB RAM
  • Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
  • 60GB HDD
  • 10.1-inch  LED Display
  • WLAN 802.11 b/g
  • touch pad with horizontal/vertical scroll up/down
  • 2-in-1 media card reader, 2 USB ports,
  • 3-cell battery

Here are the links to some of the netbooks. 1135NR is similar to 1133CL, but does not include bluetooth. 1140NR is also similar to 1133CL, but is a Vivienne Tam edition. Continue reading “HP planning mini 1100 series – more models coming: 1133CL, 1135NR and 1140NR [Netbooks]”

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HTC DIAMOND new Phone Dialer – Video [Windows Mobile]

The new official ROM for HTC Diamond comes with many minor improvements. But, the key improvement that I’ve seen so far is the new Dialer, which brings two great advancements:

  • slider when a call comes in
  • automatic screen lock, whenever you’re having a telephonic conversation

Here are some screenshots of the screen lock. To answer the call, slide the slider to the left and to reject the call, slide the slider to the right.

And here is a video showing how the automatic screen lock works:


HTC DIAMOND new Dialer from Taran DS on Vimeo.

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Netbooks causing employee lay-off at Microsoft

Microsoft is planning to lay off around 1800 employees in the coming 18 months. And guess what, they are blamming Netbooks for this. The Microsoft has suffered a painful $465 million hit when it comes to licencing OS to the OEMs.

From Microsoft’s 10-Q filing on January 22:

“The decline in OEM revenue reflects an 11 percentage point decrease in the OEM premium mix to 64%, primarily driven by growth of licenses related to sales of netbook PCs

Who is to blame? I would say that the main candidate is Vista. Vista was slapped onto the netbooks and UMPCs, which actually turned the users off as Vista was not even usable on those devices. That is when the Windows XP came into the game and the users became happy again. The reason was simple: Windows XP could run way better on a then weak hardware.

Hopefully Windows 7 will make things better for the Microsoft. We have already seen many reports of how nice the Windows 7 runs on the low-cost netbooks and notebooks. Now, only if the Microsoft does not charge a bomb to the OEMs for Windows 7, the whole scene can see a positive change in coming months.

[zdnet]

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HTC updates Touch Cruise [Windows Mobile]

Previously codenamed as HTC Lolite has now been formally announced as HTC TOUCH CRUISE. The Touch Cruise has been given an updated look. Other than different looks, HTC has bought numerous software enhancements on the Touch Cruise.

The new HTC Touch Cruise is the first mobile phone to offer HTC Footprints, an application experience that enables people to permanently chronicle their special moments by capturing a digital postcard on their phone. Once captured, Footprints provides the ability to take notes and an audio clip of that favourite restaurant or special place while identifying its specific geographical location. In addition to identifying each postcard with its specific GPS co-ordinates, Footprints also auto-names each postcard with its general location or area.

When placed into its accompanying car cradle, the HTC Touch Cruise automatically transforms its user interface into an easy-to-use, one-touch interface.

HTC Touch Cruise Specifications

  • Size: 102 x 53.5 x 14.5mm
  • Weight: 103 grams
  • Connectivity: WCDMA/HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
  • Operating system: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
  • Display: 2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution
  • Control panel: HTC TouchFLO™, 4-Way navigation wheel with Enter and HTC Footprints™ buttons
  • Camera: 3.2 MP, with fixed focus
  • Internal memory: 512 MB flash ROM, 256 MB RAM
  • Expansion Slot: microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
  • Bluetooth: 2.0 with EDR
  • Wireless: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
  • GPS: GPS/A-GPS
  • Interface: HTC ExtUSB (mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)
  • Battery: 1100 mAh
  • Talk time: GSM: up to 400 minutes
  • Standby time: GSM: up to two weeks
  • Chipset: Qualcomm® MSM7225™, 528 MHz

Both RAM and ROM have been doubled from the older Touch Cruise. Battery capacity has been reduced to 1100mAh from 1350mAh though.

[HTC TOUCH CRUISE]

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HP to come up with bigger MiniNotes [Netbook]


There is a rumor that the HP is planning to expand it’s mininote series. Rumor has it that 13.3-inch and a 11.6 mininote is in the works. Both are expected to use the Intel Atom processor.

With the MSI, ASUS and Dell, HP too would be coming out with bigger ‘netbooks’, which means that the competition will get tougher. The year 2009 is surely going to be very exciting.

[engadget]

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Intel Atom's successor = Intel Pineview CPU [Netbook]

Intel is planning to launch Intel Pineview in the second half of 2009 to replace the Intel Atom in netbooks and nettops. Intel still do not plan to introduce dual-core processors in Netbooks in near future. On the other hand, dual-core Pineview processor is in the tunnel.

The main advantage that the Intel Pineview processor brings over the Intel Atom CPU is the possibility to use higher clock frequencies. This means that we can now expect to see Netbooks and NetTops with more than 1.6GHz clock speed in 2009. Other advancements include:

  • reduced motherboard realeastate: 2174mm(Atom)->773mm(Pineview).
  • Better memory support from N270’s DDR2 533 to DDR2 667
  • GPU core frequencies increased from 133MHz to 200MHz
  • PCB design now uses only 4 layers compared to 6 layers, which was previously used by Intel Atom
  • TDP dropped from 8W to 7W

[digitimes]

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Windows Mobile 6.5 is for real – (unofficially) already running on HTC Blue Angel [Windows Mobile]

This is for the those who said that Windows Mobile 6.5 would not fill the space between Windows Mobile 6.1 and Windows Mobile 7. Microsoft is in fact in the works of releasing Windows Mobile 6.5 to the OEMs and manufactures. Few enhancements that the Windows Mobile 6.5 brings over the previous versions of Windows Mobile includes:

Windows Mobile 6.5 is for real - (unofficially) already running on HTC Blue Angel [Windows Mobile]

  • IE MOBILE 6 (remember “6 on 6“?)
  • Sliding Panel home screen (just like WM Smartphone devices aka non-touchscreen Windows Mobile devices)
  • New Lockscreen
  • MSTOUCH

It has been released for the now dated HTC Blue Angel, popularly known as O2 XDA IIs and Imate PDA2K. I’m pretty sure, it would not take much time for it to be released for other devices as well.

Windows Mobile 6.5 is for real

Here are some (leaked) screenshots of the Windows Mobile 6.5 running on Blue Angel. It seems like that the Windows Mobile Professional (touchscreen devices) are going to get the same treatment as the Windows Mobile Smartphone devices got in Windows Mobile 6.1. Yes, we are talking about the sliding panel concept now being implemented in the Windows Mobile 6.5 for Windows Mobile Professional devices.

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HP mini 2140 can now be ordered – No SSD option, No Linux option [Netbook]

The HP Mini 2140 is now available for order on HP’s website. There are 7 different variations to choose from with the minimum starting at $499 and going up to $779 for the top-end model. Interestingly, HP is no more offering an SSD version for the HP mini 2140. There is no linux option too.

All the models are being offered with either Windows XP or Windows Vista Home Basic/Business. Vista models are coming with 2GB RAM as standard, while XP models have 1GB RAM as standard. All the models are powered by 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor.

Visit HP mini 2140 webpage

Thanks to Jimmy for the tip