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Latest Mobile Windows News: CEO of Microsoft in panic over iPad - afraid to repeat debacle with iPhone beating Windows Phone July 30, 2010; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Tablet PC powered by Windows - very small niche. UMPC (ultra mobile PC) - powered by Windows - massive failure. We were personally present at Microsoft press conference where Microsoft unveiled UMPC for the first time .... and we asked question "when will this thing support multitouch?" and the answer was "in Vista timeline" but it was too late, too little and too wrong... (in fact multitouch came only in Windows 7 time frame so we were lied to). Now Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft is in panic that similar situation like iPhone beating Windows Mobile, may happen with iPad:  more... Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 12 Comments ]Microsoft-specialized cougar employed at ZDNet abandons Microsoft July 22, 2010; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] What next? Pope abandoning Catholicism? more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 8 Comments ] Steven Guggenheimer makes a fool of himself June 03, 2010; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Sometimes we don't know: are Microsoft top-managers living on the other planet or in a bubble where reality is not reaching? more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]We are too stupid to compete with iPad - Microsoft admits and cancels Courier tablet April 29, 2010; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] The Microsoft Courier project - a tablet devices with 2 screens and support for both multitouch and digitizer pen, looked good, but these 2 screens and dubious mechanics, would make it most likely not realistically possible or simply not providing enough battery life (iPad offers 10 hours of heavy usage). So is it good decision? Well, Windows 7 already supports both multitouch and digitizer pen, so in fact we think this is proper decision. 
(on picture above: Windows Mobile phone with 1GHz processor lying on top of an iPad - also with 1GHz processor) Frank Shaw from Microsoft has confirmed that Courier has been cancelled: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]Editorial: 2007 deja vu - Microsoft fails to answer to iPad revolution April 21, 2010; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] We were present at Microsoft press conference where global launch of UMPC (ultra mobile PC) was taking place. We asked there, as accredited press member, when multitouch is coming to UMPC. The answer was "in Windows Vista timeline" what appeared to be a lie - multitouch support come with Windows 7, not Vista. We were covering here partly tablet PCs and UMPCs but both UMPC and tablet PCs have failed. In 2007 Apple launched iPhone that revolutionized smartphones. Around November 2010, 3 years after iPhone launch, Microsoft is about to launch Windows Phone 7 that is a lame imitation of iPhone (lame, because in Summer 2010 iPhone 4 with proper multitasking is launching and Windows Phone 7 has no multitasking, and Microsoft mobile employees are so incredibly incompetent that Windows Phone 7 doesn't even have copy and paste!), that is a belated answer of Microsoft to iPhone. 3 years! It took Microsoft 3 years! What about iPad? more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Microsoft releases early version of Windows 7-based Windows Embedded Standard 2011 September 01, 2009; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Windows CE-based operating systems of Microsoft like Windows Mobile 6.1, 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7, will probably be replaced in future, due to the increase in mobile hardware power, by Windows 7 in embedded form, that Microsoft calls "Windows Embedded Standard 2011". Interestingly Windows Embedded Standard 2011 supports multi-touch: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]Nokia announced their first Windows phone! August 24, 2009; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] It has even 3G video calling and built-in GPS, so what else do you want...? more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]Qualcomm introduces 1.3 GHz ARM-compatible Snapdragon processor + the birth of smartbooks June 02, 2009; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Windows Mobile powered Toshiba TG01 will be powered by Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm running at 1 GHz. And now Qualcomm is announcing new version of Snapdragon processor that runs at 1.3 GHz. What is going on? Well, Qualcomm conceived Snapdragon processors, that include also cellular network functionality, mainly as processors for netbooks - tiny notebooks. But what is happening instead? Firstly high-end Windows Mobile phones will use them too... and secondly new category of devices has been just created: smartbooks - they are tiny and look like netbooks but instead of x86 processors (that run also Windows XP/Vista/7) they use ARM-compatible processors (like Snapdragon!) and they will run instead Windows Mobile... While PDA devices based on Windows Mobile are dying out, new wave of Windows Mobile devices will raise soon: smartbooks! more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]Netbooks powered by Windows Mobile are coming soon ! February 26, 2009; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] In past we have installed Windows CE on a regular PC and Windows Mobile is based on Windows CE, so why not to put Windows Mobile in a netbook? Well, because Windows Mobile runs only on ARM-compatible processors and netbooks use x86-compatible processors! What to do in this situation? more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 16 Comments ]Attack of netbooks with built-in mobile broadband - state as of October 2008 October 30, 2008; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Why would you like to buy an expensive smartphone if you can get for 40-50 % of its price a netbook with built-in 3G (HSDPA, up to 7.2 MB/s)? 
(on image above: netbooks with built-in HSDPA) Read on! more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 6 Comments ]Second Chapter of netbook revolution starts: Asus announces Eee PC 901 with HSDPA September 26, 2008; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Asus started netbook revolution with Eee PC subnotebook that was not only tiny but also very cheap. 
(on photo above: Eee PC 901; photo made by Asus Hong Kong) It looks like it is also Asus that starts new second chapter of this revolution with announcement of 3.75G version of Eee PC where "3.75G" standas for HSDPA 7.2 Mbps with HSUPA 2 Mbps: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Vodafone scores exclusive deal with Dell on Inspiron Mini 9 with built-in HSDPA September 09, 2008; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] We don't cover regular netbooks (i.e. cheap subnotebooks) here, but only those that offer embedded cellular connectivity. 
While T-Mobile Germany previously announced that they will be selling Asus Eee PC with built-in HSDPA, now Vodafone corporation (headquarters, not just some local division) is announcing that it has a deal with Dell, thanks to which Vodafone will be selling Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook with built-in HSDPA although it is not available through Dell itself with this option! While it is unknown when (if at all) Asus Eee PC with built-in HSDPA is coming, LG has already announced a netbook based on MSI Wind that will have built-in HSDPA so Dell's decision to give exclusivity to Vodafone may be big mistake after all... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)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 ]Previous page |
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