Here’s a video presentation of three versions of the Linpus netbook distribution based on Moblin 2.0. two of the distributions shown will be available for download in a few weeks.

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 […]

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 […]

The core of IDF 2009 for me has been all about Moblin rather than hardware technology this year. It has been great to hear about (and see) Moblin V2.1 for handhelds and i’m also excited to see that Intel will develop an application store that can be used to improve that platform and make it easier and more dynamic for customers. I tested Moblin V2.0 beta last month and yesterday I was asking one of the Moblin Chiefs about when Moblin 2.0 would be fully released. I didn’t have to […]

There’s a huge amount of information to digest around the announcement of the Intel Atom Development Program, or app-store but at a special lunch meeting with some of the key people in the IADP team I managed to refine what I think is going on here. In summary you’re looking at Intel setting up a distribution, billing and  validation process for applications that are built to run on Windows and Moblin-based netbooks. Intel expect most of the (currently 19) Moblin distributors to build this into their Moblin-based distributions and on […]

Chippy has a nice photoset of the upcoming Viliv S10 here in the ultra mobile PC gallery. Take a look. These were taken during Computex.

Update: Hands-on video and full specifications. The title says most of what you need to know. Archos has announced the official launch for the Archos 9, which will be on October 22nd in two colors (white and black), and the unit will run $499! Here are the specs: Atom Z510 1.1GHz CPU 1024×600 9 inch resistive touchscreen 1GB of RAM 60GB HDD Windows 7 Starter 4 hours of battery life 800 grams I have to say that I’m really impressed with that price. I couldn’t see the Archos 9 going […]

Chippy wrote about it not long ago and it looks like he was right on the money. At IDF 2009, Intel has announced the Intel Atom Developer Program, the ‘app store’ framework for mobile atom products. Don’t cast this off as a ‘me too’ for Intel though, this app store brings some really benefits to the platforms that it will serve. First of all, Intel’s Atom app store will function on Windows and Moblin. One application written by a developer will run on both of these devices with the help […]