Spotted in a technical session yesterday, this is a live demo of a working Moorestown MID with a capacative touchscreen running Moblin 2 and a UI developed by Wind River. The device is the Inventec ‘MediaPhone’ seen at Computex 2009. In the first part of the video you’ll see a public demo. We managed to get a private demo and you’ll see that in the second-half of the video.
It looks extremely smooth, well thought out and gives you an example of the sorts of user interfaces and features we’ll see when Moorestown and Moblin 2.1 hit in the middle of 2010.
September 25th, 2009 at 4:07 am
Wonderful, very nice. However, the downside is the year of wait.
What would you say is the closest available match at this time? Would a Viliv S5 linked to a phone be a good interum solution? I say this to keep the monthly cost down. The concern I see with using only VOIP on MIDs today is the constant need to keep them powered up.
The ARM manufactures are cranking out phones like crazy. The Intel manufactures are cranking out (similar) netbooks like crazy. The difference is there is more shape variation on the phone side. The number of tweeners goes to Intel for the time being. Why are both so slow to meet in the middle?
Thanks.
September 25th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Finally! I’ve been waiting for a closeup demo of moorestown hardware. In the last video demo, you couldn’t even touch this device.
It looks smooth though. Is the capacitive touchscreen confirmed? I wonder if most of the other MID manufacturers will go the capacitive touch way.
Good job with the video man. Thanks.
September 25th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
This is awesome. The MID UI that was shown by Intel on stage was totally lame – it looked like a squeezed down version of the Netbook one. Also, since WR knows embedded systems and has build a bunch of Linux phones, I bet that their UI is much more memory efficient than anything that comes from the PC world.
September 28th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Middle of 2010???
I thought it was early 2010, possibly late 2009?
March 6th, 2010 at 11:39 am
New article: First view! Moorestown MID running Moblin 2.0 at IDF09 http://bit.ly/98jlxF