Moorestown MID with Wind River’s Moblin based UI demo [video]

Posted on 25 September 2009, Last updated on 12 November 2019 by

windriver demo 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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7 Comments For This Post

  1. Ben Lang says:

    New article: Moorestown MID ‘Windriver’ Moblin based interface demo [video] http://cli.gs/Lh5zs

  2. Ben Lang says:

    New article: Moorestown MID ‘Wind River’ Moblin based interface demo [video] http://cli.gs/Lh5zs

  3. DM says:

    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).

  4. DavidC1 says:

    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).

  5. ProDigit says:

    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…

  6. Richard De St Croix says:

    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.

  7. Martin King says:

    RT @s0apy Moorestown MID with Moblin based UI demo [video] – http://bit.ly/uohWN – is this too big to work as a phone?

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