We’re finally getting a look at what the Moorestown MIDphones of the future should offer us. Chippy has a short demonstration of Wind River’s interface running on top of Mobilin. This is designed for MIDs as compared to the standard Moblin which has an interface based around more standard input devices (ie: mouse and keyboard on a netbook). The demo you are about to see below is running on the Inventec MediaPhone that jkk went hands on with at Computex 2009.
While some of the demo looks pretty good, such as the smooth application opening animation, it is also quite disheartening to see that they couldn’t even get the app pages to slide smoothly at this point. Hoping that it won’t end up shipping like this (it doubtfully will).
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September 25th, 2009 at 10:30 am
New article: Moorestown MID ‘Windriver’ Moblin based interface demo [video] http://cli.gs/Lh5zs
September 25th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
New article: Moorestown MID ‘Wind River’ Moblin based interface demo [video] http://cli.gs/Lh5zs
September 25th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Interesting device it seems quite big for a phone, I guess a 4-5 inch screen?
The UI seems to be ok for finger use and I think that is really important to the sucess of these types of devices, but also I think the capactive touchscreen is the key to these devices (I might be a bit biased there as that is why I like my iPhone so much).
September 26th, 2009 at 1:26 am
It looks slightly bigger than iPhone which is definitely an improvement. Carrying iPhone to talk is one thing, carrying S5 or M1 sized device is another. It’s also supposed to increase battery life to 24 hours.
I’m hoping performance increase will be there with the power consumption decrease. Moorestown seems to use 32-bit DDR2/3 rather than 64 bit as with Menlow(and the rest of the PC industry).
September 28th, 2009 at 3:29 am
probably DDR2. It looks much like a PSP. PSP was ahead of it’s time, being small, portable, and with extension battery still lasted a good 5 to 6 hours of playback on a 266?/333Mhz processor…
September 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Moorestown MID with Moblin based UI demo [video] – http://bit.ly/uohWN – is this too big to work as a phone? I don’t think so.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:46 am
RT @s0apy Moorestown MID with Moblin based UI demo [video] – http://bit.ly/uohWN – is this too big to work as a phone?