HTC's Shift runs Vista (for 2 hours?) not Windows Mobile

HTC's Shift: runs Windows Mobile right, after all, it's an HTC device? Nope, Vista Business Edition. That Windows Mobile looking UI we've seen is HTC's "SnapVUE" shell, an advanced BIOS with support for some of the same applications you would see on a Windows Mobile device. So while you won't get voice capability or Windows Mobile Office, the Sideshow-like display will provide up to 53-hours of use with push email enabled (11 days, without). At least that's what Kaz911 is saying after getting their hands on the claimed, official HTC specs and interviewing Kevin Chen, General Manager HTC EMEA. If the spec list is to be believed, we're looking at an 800MHz Intel A110 Stealey-class CPU; 1GB memory; up to 60GB of disk; 7-inch, 800 x 480 touch-sensitive LCD for all the Aero and 3D flip action you can handle; 802.11b/g WiFi; Bluetooth 2.0; and of course a 400MHz Qualcomm MSM 7200 chipset with tri-band UMTS / HSDPA and quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE radios. The odd (and hopefully inaccurate) spec is the 2700mAh battery rated for "up to 2-hours" of that Vista wow. Sounds a bit fishy to us for a McCaslin-based UMPC which targets 4-5 hours of battery life. We'll see once these official specs are actually released by HTC.

[Via jkOnTheRun]

Read -- HTC Shift "official" specifications
Read -- Kevin Chen interview

[Pc_Madness @ Sep 10th 2007 6:00AM]

The 800mhz cpu's aren't duel cores...


And I dunno wth HTC have done, they had the best UMPC design out there and totally screwed it up. :(

[3rdsun @ Sep 10th 2007 6:12AM]

I bet it can run Ubuntu for 24 hours straight

[1-22 @ Sep 10th 2007 6:38AM]

Would World of Warcraft run (well) on these machines? Or is a game like that just to heavy for UMPC's?

Does anyone has experience with World Of Warcraft and UMPC's?

[chris @ Sep 10th 2007 6:54AM]

hahaha

[Trix @ Sep 10th 2007 7:05AM]

I second this question :)

[PJK @ Sep 10th 2007 7:13AM]

You're kidding right?

[idk @ Sep 10th 2007 7:26AM]

If it can run FLIP 3D, then it can even run GOOD games like HL2, BF2/2142, AOE3 etc..

I think ANYTHING can run that shit game WoW.

[1-22 @ Sep 10th 2007 8:57AM]

No I wasn't kidding... I was really wandering if it could run. :-)

[Cristobal Negrete @ Sep 10th 2007 1:09PM]

Don't know about the Shift, but World of Warcraft does run on other UMPCs like the Samsung Q1. You should be able to found videos of it on youtube.

[Cristobal Negrete @ Sep 10th 2007 1:31PM]

^correction to mistake above^

"You should be able to *find* videos of it on youtube."

[sombody @ Sep 10th 2007 7:01AM]

the u posted a few months ago said it ran windows mobile AND Vista Business. There was a separate processor and everything for each OS. You can run the two side be side simultaneously.

[Ellianth @ Sep 10th 2007 8:58AM]

i remember watching a video review (by a bad reviewer) that said the same thing. He even showed both operating systems.

[Matthew Hermans @ Sep 10th 2007 7:17AM]

Hugo Ortega did an actual video review of the unit. You can see Windows Mobile in action!

http://www.gottabemobile.com/TheHTCShift.aspx

[fgpx78 @ Sep 10th 2007 7:57AM]

wanna one of those

[nikster @ Sep 10th 2007 8:15AM]

What is a UMPC for? Vista on a 7" screen? Wow I am so underwhelmed.

I don't see how this fits between real-world usable laptops at 10" or better 12", and smart phones.

It's a Palm Foleo with Vista on it! Too large for a phone, too small for a laptop.

[FK @ Sep 10th 2007 9:10AM]

I am sure you have designed something better and I for one cant wait to see it.

[Ante Vukorepa @ Sep 10th 2007 8:55AM]

Exactly like Somebody says - the original rumoured specs said there would be two CPU's. An x86 compatible and an ARM, running both - Vista AND WM6.

[MonteVale @ Sep 10th 2007 9:08AM]

Can someone there build something like this that runs Windos Mobile OS only? Get rid of the Vista and the hardward overhead all together (maybe leave the hard drive). Use the fastets mobile cpu possible for mobile os.
Install TextMaker Office for word and excell support. If you are heavily using email and on the exchange server this could be the ticket.
With this sucker running for days!!! on a single battery charge? and weighing a third of my laptop that lasts me two hours? starting to sound like a dream.

[Cristobal Negrete @ Sep 10th 2007 1:09PM]

What you want is the HTC Advantage. Look for it.

[Igor Tokmovtsev @ Sep 10th 2007 9:18AM]

apple has nothing to worry about

[MEAT! @ Sep 10th 2007 9:24AM]

Now us old people, we play old people games like Lord of the Rings online. No, Frodo, watch out for the troll!

[jb @ Sep 10th 2007 8:22PM]

lol -- 2 whole hours. more junk based on win os.