http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/ Engadget Comments for HTC Shift -- the cellphone company finally goes UMPC http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Mar 26th 2007 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Mar 26th 2007 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Mar 26th 2007 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Mar 26th 2007 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/
Make sure this thing had good battery life and I'll toss my current cellphone, get this thing and start leaving my laptop at home...]]>Mar 26th 2007 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agUbsgip0Vo

Looks like the same mechanism as the HTC Kaiser.]]>Mar 26th 2007 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/I can't type on a mac laptop keyboard because the keys are so large and far apart. Yes I'm female but not particualry small (174cm) I guess I must just have small hands - but I can't be the only one. I used to have a psion which had the perfect size keyboard for me and would fit in my back pocket - I have been waiting for somthing similar to it ever since they discontinued it. In fact why doesn't someone just re-release it?!]]>Mar 26th 2007 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Mar 26th 2007 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=308

which I'm very happy about because our design was for the ideal UMPC and apart from 1024x600 and mouse pointer, its almost there!

Price? My guess is around $1500 but you'll see it it sold through the normal HTC channels which means 1/3 prics and 24 months contract. Significant!

Steve / Chippy]]>Mar 26th 2007 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Mar 26th 2007 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Mar 26th 2007 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/
Looks good. Now, how much?]]>Mar 27th 2007 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Mar 28th 2007 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Mar 27th 2007 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/
Current VIA cpus are noticeably slower compared to Celeron-Ms (at the same clock), thats why I am a bit disappointed... they're not that bad though.

Sorry if my wording is messed up, not my native language :)]]>Mar 28th 2007 4:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/1. How snappy is a Via chip? As I said before this isn't a laptop and I wouldn't expect it to act as snappy as a C2D laptop however the basics: app launch, music, movies. How do they run?

2. Battery life. Get me 4 hours on this thing or go back to the drawing board. I've found that the smaller the device the better battery life people demand out of the device because of the likelihood of carrying the device with them more frequently. In this case I would demand 4 hours with low brightness\all wireless off\reading an e-book.]]>Mar 28th 2007 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/
I also hope that have some simple applets for phone usage.

What they need to come out with is a device that can run both Vista and WM6 Pro, and switch between the two on the fly and while on a call.

And make the device a little smaller than the Shift - more along the lines of the Sony UX Premium.]]>Mar 28th 2007 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/ Mobile. That would be perfect for battery life]]>Apr 3rd 2007 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Apr 7th 2007 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/
And keep in mind, SsIII is what HTC stuffed into their Athena. So if it's fine for that WM phone, then it would be just perfect for the Shift.]]>Apr 9th 2007 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/]]>Apr 9th 2007 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Please, take the phone out!
I already have a mobile phone, it includes bluetooth to talk to devices like UMPC. I don't want to subscribe to another GSM supplier to make a UMPC talk to the internet direct, htc seem to think we want to do this. Also, some employers/clients don't allow phones onto their premises; therefore this device wouldn't be allowed in, even if you took the SIM out.
Will this thing fit unobtrusively in my pocket instead of my current TyTN; don't think so. Bad idea to have a phone built in; stops me buying it; otherwise I would, because it actually looks pretty good!
HTC, please offer a version WITHOUT THE PHONE BUILT IN.]]>Apr 27th 2007 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/May 12th 2007 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Jun 4th 2007 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/htc-shift-the-cellphone-company-finally-goes-umpc/Nov 20th 2007 10:47PM