Today, Apple announced a new iPod Shuffle and their website describes it as: “The world’s smallest music player also happens to be the world’s first talking one.” World’s first talking music player? Yeah, right! Windows Mobile has had this capability since 2003. Remember when the first version of Microsoft Voice Command was released? That software added full voice control and media selection text-to-speech confirmations to the Windows Mobile Media Player. For 6 years I’ve been …
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imate 810F vs. Sham Wow!
The UnwiredView.com has an impressive video of imate’s infomercial-style demonstration of the rugged 810F Windows Phone. The phone continues to function despite being submerged in water, coffee, orange juice, ketchup and salt. Dropping it on the floor and stepping on it doesn’t phase it either. As a bonus, you’ll also see a nice security feature in the phone as well as the ridiculously small Centurion qwerty Windows Phone that imate is also developing. Unfortunately there …
Continue readingSony Vaio P: Kinda Like the Win CE HPCs of Yesteryear
Pocketables.net has been doing some coverage on the new Sony Vaio P Ultramobile PC AKA Netbook AKA Subnotebook AKA Ultraportable laptop lately. There’s an unboxing, a set up, size comparison, 3G SIM slot, and some performance measurements. This device reminds me of the old Windows CE Handheld PC devices some of us used to carry around almost 10 years ago, except it looks a lot better and it runs full Windows Vista. Of course, when …
Continue readingExcited about Windows 7 Beta? Try the HP Tx2.
The Windows 7 public beta is supposed to be available tomorrow. If you’ve seen any of the demos, there are going to be some great touch and multi-touch features that will be very useful on Tablet PCs. Coincidentally, HP just released the TouchSmart TX2 convertible Tablet PC with a dual mode multi-touch touchscreen and Wacom Penabled digitizer for use in pen-based graphics/note taking programs. The Tablet also includes a remote control for running Media Center, …
Continue readingThe Mobinnova ICE Windows Mobile Phone
Check out the Mobinnova ICE! You may not have heard of Mobinnova before, but they’re the manufacturer responsible for the iMate Ultimate 8502 and 9502 Windows Mobile devices. Now they’re releasing their own branded touch-screen device called the ICE. It’s got a 3″ flush touch screen, accelerometer, 256MB ROM/128MB RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, FM Radio, TV-out, GPS, MicroSD slot, Triband 3G, Quadband GSM, and a custom interface running on top of Windows Mobile 6.1. It looks …
Continue readingAT&T Fuze vs. HTC TyTN II
The ATT Fuze replaces the ATT Tilt, which was also available as the HTC TyTN II or Kaiser. Is the Fuze really an upgrade or has it lost more than it’s gained when compared to the Kaiser? So with the Fuze, you gain an extra row of keys, a VGA screen, smaller width, accelerometer, TV out, Video acceleration, touch capacitive button pad, a magnetic stylus, and an autofocus camera with LED flash. However, when compared …
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