It was inevitable, really – now that ARM processors are bound for netbook and the like, it follows logic that ARM would tag team with Canonical to bring Ubuntu to their shells. The two firms have collaborated in order to bring full Ubuntu Desktop operating system to the ARMv7 Processor architecture to address demand from device manufactures. 
Sadly, you’ll have to wait until April of 2009 to see the fruits of this so-very-special relationship.
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ASUS P565, a business PDA phone that boasts an 800 MHz processor—the fastest in the world at the time of this announcement. Featuring ASUS’ latest touch-driven user interface—Glide—the stylish, leather-accented P565 delivers graphics and system performance beyond anything else on the market at present scores almost two times that of competing products in its class. This enables the P565 to glide through resource-intensive tasks effortlessly and to handle heavy multitasking exceptionally well—making it ideal for businesspeople who demand uncompromising performance and maximum speed from their productivity tools.
Rounding off its impressive feature set is a 2.8″ touchscreen running at a high resolution of 480 x 640 pixels, delivering an unprecedented degree of clarity that does wonders for both personal photographs and spreadsheets.
Talk about being powerful! The 800mhz clearly blows away all the Windows mobile and other phones. No phone has ever come with so powerful processor till date. Continue reading “ASUS introduces the world fastest PDA phone – ASUS P565”
If you happen to live in North America, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is now available for pre-order. Unlocked Xperia X1 can now be ordered for $799.99 from SonyStyle.com from November 13, 2008.
The Xperia X1’s unique panel user interface is at the heart of the device’s ability to create and adapt consumers’ personal choices. With up to 9 panels, it’s easy to find and enjoy the information and entertainment content they want. Sony Ericsson is busy working with third-party developers to create a wealth of new applications and new panels that will soon be available for download.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 – At a Glance: Continue reading “Pre- order Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 from SonyStyle!”
GX630 is the new MSI gaming notebook. Wait, this is “just not another >$1000” notebook. It is just $799!
Lets see what we get in just $799:
Continue reading “MSI Launches AMD Gaming Notebook for Under $800 – GX630-028US”
Yesterday, we posted about the preview of the Internet Explorer mobile 6 which is based on the desktop version of the Internet Explorer 6. Unfortunately, we could only test it via Device emulator. We managed to test it on the real device. Here is the review of it.
Please note that all the screenshots are in VGA resolution (640 x 480)
The browser has two modes: desktop and mobile. This basically tells the other sites that you are using a mobile device or you can set the browser to Desktop mode, which will tell the other sites that you are using IE 6.
If you type in anything in the above box, it will live search it and display you the results. Odd that it uses the mobile version of it even in the Desktop mode.
Zoom feature
You would say that the zoom feature is also there in the IE mobile included in the Windows Mobile 6.1 devices. But wait, this is a desktop-class IE. Remember? It displays pages accurately. ApoTheTech.com is a fairly complex website and it displayed perfectly!
Sadly, it takes a while to get to page zoomed out. Even on a powerful device like HTC TOUCH DIAMOND
When you have Zoomed out (menu>Zoom out), you can just tap the portion you want to zoom into.
And the youtube works inside the pages as well. It is slow, but it works. I’m sure this will improve in the future builds.
Other nice things I really liked
When you open Gmail, it takes you to the Desktop version of gmail!
But, we didn’t remain happy for a long time. See following screenshot
One of the nice touches of new IE is the ability to auto-complete the URL
Quirks:
But still, it is a BIG initiative by the Microsoft to develop a desktop class web browser.
Available on new Windows Mobile devices soon, this browser will provide a high-quality browsing experience on your device that more closely resembles a desktop browsing experience.
New/Improved features:
Experiencing some problems with the SMTP functionality of POP or IMAP accounts on your windows mobile device?
This behavior is associated with a feature that is introduced in Windows Mobile 6.1. The feature allows for mobile operators to specify an alternate SMTP server name that is used if e-mail messages cannot be sent by using the user-specified SMTP server name. If the mobile operator does not specify an alternate SMTP server name and if the Windows Mobile 6.1-based device does not connect, the e-mail account is corrupted and cannot send e-mail messages.
Download the fix
Has anyone actually be able to get that much battery life? From the 6 cell battery of ASUS EEE PC 1000H, I have been able to get just about 5 hours of battery life. Ok, that is a lot but 8 hours is a dream and long way to go
Do you run PPC-Mac? If yes, then Parallels Desktop 4.0 has something really nice for you to offer.
It also offers DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.1 support!. Version 4.0 of Parallel Desktop makes the user experience smoother than ever.
It costs $79.90. Link to the official Parallel Desktop page
“Wouldn’t it be super cool if the Silverlight apps you built for the desktop could run on Millions of Mobile Devices? If you have been building Silverlight applications and are wondering how to extend them to mobile devices, then this webcast is the one to watch. In this webcast you will not only learn how to extend your existing Silverlight 2 applications to work on Windows Mobile, but also learn how to build rich mobile Silverlight apps that play media, handle simple gestures, have cool animations, and enable web services.”
Ever had a dream or wish, if your desktop Silverlight applications could work on the mobile device? If yes, Amit Chopra at Microsoft explains how to do so.
