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Latest Mobile Windows News: Multi-touch gesture upgrade for Tablet PC from Dell coming this week July 15, 2008; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Instead of waiting for Microsoft that is innovating very very slow (if at all! note to Microsoft employees: releasing a new feature 4 years after competition is not an innovation), Dell, similarly like HTC, is releasing their own operating system extension: multi-touch! Windows 7 (successor to Vista) will have built-in support for multi-touch and we hope that Windows Mobile 7 will have it too (or otherwise it will be big failure), but fans of multi-touch can get it now:  more... Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0 released for UMPC by Microsoft June 22, 2008; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] If you have an ultra mobile PC (UMPC) powered by Windows Vista and you would like to get more effective finger-based navigation then this upgrade is for you! While Windows Mobile 6.1 still has no adaptation for finger-based navigation, it looks like Microsoft's efforts towards finger-based navigation are going from top to the bottom: starting with Micosoft Surface table with multi-touch, upcoming Windows 7 desktop OS with multi-touch and down to ultra mobile PCs and mobile phones. In other words: Microsoft is going towards finger-based navigation across all their platforms but to Windows Mobile it will arrive at the beginning of the year 2009. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ] Microsoft OFFICIALLY confirms introduction of multi-touch technology May 28, 2008; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] We were present, on location, at the Microsoft's press conference where UMPC was unveiled for the first time ever and then we asked a question "when will multi-touch be coming to Microsoft powered mobile devices?" and the answer was "in Vista time-frame" but this answer was wrong as we don't have multi-touch by now. However now Microsoft is officially revealing, that multi-touch will be used by Microsoft not only in their tables called "Microsoft Surface" and worth 10,000 dollars... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]CES 2008 video report: OQO January 20, 2008; [Ultra-Mobile PCs]  Here is the video: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]HTC Shift launched in Asia January 17, 2008; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] It is a pity that HTC Shift doesn't run full version of Windows Mobile apart from Windows Vista - although it has also ARM-compatible processor... but still is one of the best connected and equipped ultra mobile PCs on the market... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]HTC Shift launched December 12, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs]  Here are some photos from the launch event: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]Dell Latitude XT officially announced by Dell but not available for purchase yet December 11, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs]  While Dell Latitude XT offers revolutionary multi-touch display, the Windows itself is not supporting it yet natively (only 3rd party applications) and this tablet is powered by (rather slow) ULV processors with speeds up to 1.2 MHz... Here is how this tablet looks like (click on the photo to see it zoomed-in!): more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)OQO e2 with HSDPA and without SIM-lock - available NOW! December 05, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs]  more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)User Guide of Dell Latitude XT leaked with more details about mobile broadband support December 04, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Dell is breaking with old tradition of not making Tablet PC notebooks! Now everything is possible: also smartphones from Dell! Dell Latitude XT is not on sale yet but it will be one of the smallest Tablet PC notebooks, and apart from digitizer support it will support also genuine multi-touch display (unlike fake multi-touch that Lenovo offers although in fact it is just "single-touch combined with active digitizer"). Interestingly this small Tablet PC features built-in mobile broadband, including external "whip antenna": more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 4 Comments ]OQO e2 with HSDPA coming this week December 04, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Apparently this week American OQO company will announce in London a European version of HSDPA-equipped UMPC with following band support: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Gitex 2007 : Kevin Chen from HTC interviewed about HTC Shift September 09, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Apparently HTC Shift doesn't have real Windows Mobile but just a modem that is powered by cut-down (without Office Mobile, without phone calling part) version of Windows Mobile: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)HTC Shift runs both: Windows Vista AND Windows Mobile ! August 12, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] By now HTC was showing the HTC Shift Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) - during various events and conferences - only behind a glass. However recently it has given one unit of HTC Shift to a Microsoft MVP (in Tablet PC area, from GottaBeMobile site) so that he should present it during Tech Ed Australia! The biggest revelation is that HTC Shift actually runs both Windows Vista and (!) Windows Mobile and it even has 2 processors and can run 2 modes! A video review of HTC Shift is now available (here: HTC Shift running in Windows Mobile mode with "H" denoting "HSDPA" in title-bar): 
... and new details have been revealed about this interesting device: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 12 Comments ]Microsoft works on notebooks with multi-touch June 21, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] During press conference of Microsoft when UMPC was unveiled to the public for the first time in history we (we were there on location!!!) asked a question "what about support for multi-touch in UMPC?". At that time we didn't get any specific answer. But buy now Microsoft has unveiled commercially (!) the Microsoft Surface technology (a table with multi-touch display) and now it has been revealed, that Microsoft is working also on notebooks that would support genuine multi-touch: 
more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Raon EVERUN UMPC announced June 01, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Slowly purchasing big smartphone or PDA phone is having less and less sense because cheap UMPC devices are coming, like this one: 
more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 9 Comments ]Major New Palm Product Announcement Tomorrow May 29, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Over the past several years, Palm has secretly been developing a new class of product, to add to its existing PDA and smartphone lines. The new category will be announced by Palm founder Jeff Hawkins at a financial conference in California tomorrow. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Previous page |
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