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HTC to launch Internet enabled feature phone later this year – will not be running Windows Mobile?

Digitimes is reporting that HTC is planning to launch an Internet-enabled feature phone later this year. However, contrary to what we would think, this would not be running Windows Mobile (or Android). It would instead be running BREW MP. HTC will be bundling it with wide range of flash applications to provide multimedia services to the user.

Last year, HTC did give us all a hint that they will be launching an updated version of the HTC Advantage (X7510), but we did not know that it would not be running Windows Mobile.

For those who do not what BREW MP is: It is a mobile platform made by Qualcomm

Learn about BREW

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Twitter for Windows Mobile

There are two several ways to twit on a Windows Mobile:

  1. The best way is to use a dedicated twitter application like Pocketwit which is a freeware. With it, you can post to Twitter using a URL you want to share, a picture you have stored on your smartphone, or a picture you just snapped with the camera, and you can even insert a GPS link showing your location.
  2. HelloTwitFace: It gives you the ability to post your status on Twitter and Facebook or HelloTxt
  3. ceTwit
  4. Twobile
  5. Tinytwitter
  6. You can just redirect the mobile browser to http://m.twitter.com and you will be taken mobile webpage of the twitter. It is fairly bandwidth friendly.

I personally use m.twitter.com as the Pocketwit takes a while to start.

[via microsoft]

Updated: Thanks to freewarepocketpc.net for letting us know about other twitter applications.

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Intel believes high-end machines need SSD. What about netbooks?

From fudzilla,

Intel advises its customers that the high end system from Intel should have both SSD and HDD. For $1100 or more Intel propagates that a user should get Core i7 920, X58 motherboard 4GB memory, even that would be hard for Nehalem system that usually feature 3GB or 6GB. X25-M Intel´s mainstream SSD drive, 750GB HDD.

I like the idea of HDD and SSD in a single machine, but I wonder why Intel is still not producing SSDs meant for netbooks. May be they think that the netbooks are good enough with HDDs and they do not have a need for SSDs. Fortunately, there are some netbook manufactures who do not think this way. Take MSI Wind U115 for example, which was the first netbook with both SSD and Hard Disk drives built in. The HDD can be used to store big files while the SSD can be used to drive the OS.

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Benq to launch AMD Neo-based netbooks in Spring

Benq, third largest netbook maker in China, is planning to introduce a number of thin notebooks based on AMD’s Neo and Intel’s CULV platforms later this spring. The ones on the roadmap include a 12.1-inch and 13.3-inch netbooks notebooks in May, 2009.

However, nothing more is known about the notebooks at this moment. That said, if they stick to the Sempron U210 processor, the price of the notebooks is going to be affordable.

[via digitimes]

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MyHome – Get Windows Mobile 7 interface

Windows Mobile 7 is still more than an year away from making its debut, but folks at SHBT have come up a software which looks a lot like the sliding panel interface found on the Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphones (non-touchscreen based).

While Microsoft did not being the sliding panel interface in Windows Mobile 6.1, they are bringing it in the Windows Mobile 6.5.

SHBT MyHome is available for 14.95 euros from here

[via solsie]

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Compal to develop netbook based on Android platform

About a month back, we heard rumors of ASUS to come up with Android based netbooks at the end of this year. Looks like, manufactures are thinking that there is a lot of potential in Android-netbooks. May be that is why Compal Communications, a Taiwanese mobile phone manufacture has plans to develop netbooks based on the Android platform. Right now, it is looking for the vendors that may be interested in Android netbooks.

Whenever I hear about such big manufactures talking about making Android based netbooks, only one question arises in my mind, “What is the need of running a mobile phone OS on a nebtook when it can run Windows XP and Windows 7 so nicely“. If the rumors of Android netbook are really true, then I am pretty sure that we will soon start hearing rumors of netbooks coming from Nokia and Apple.

All of my netbooks either run Windows XP or Windows 7. I do not see the need to run a mobile phone OS on my netbook that has the capability to run desktop OS. Period.

[via digitimes]