We've already seen dormant
F1s resting comfortably
from the confines of display stands at MWC earlier this year, but Acer's now ready to flip the power switch and show off its WinMo 6.5 superphone's capabilities in the flesh at
Computex this week. Our own Engadget Chinese spent some quality time shooting the
Snapdragon-powered beast, running what could very well be the gold shipping build of 6.5 considering that it's now been released to manufacturers in final form for inclusion in their devices. As you might expect for the
Tegra-fighting Snapdragon silicon, animations and transitions seems to be totally dead-on smooth and movement between applications is faster than anything this side of a Toshiba
TG01, so we're excited to see this one find its way into retail later this year; in the meantime, though, follow the link for some glorious footage.
posted Jun 3rd 2009 2:13PM
First! and this thing look sweet, go windows mobile!
Now if only they can get it to sell faster than it runs down a battery. If you want to see a really useful handset in action, stay tuned to the WWDC to see what type of device actually brings in the money.
Just the talk of WinMo 6.5 sends chills up and down my spine. Silly me, that was just sweat running down my back.
looks like something i have seen before.... what are the specs btw
I assume this will be a GSM phone, right?
this is like the htc touch hd except with faster cpu and etc same size screen.
that's waht it reminded me of... it LOOKS like the HD :P
It apparently has a real headphone jack like the HD too, dear god I hope this makes it to the US.
Don't you guys get tired of being dipshits?
Love your sarcasm!
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It was sarcasm wasn't it?
@ 2 replys..
Don`t be a nub... bub!
Another classic example of weak minded follower lacking the courage to lead.
I just don't like WinMo at all. I can't think of any smartphone OS that is more irritating, confusing, or slow than WinMo.
Not likely you have any hands on with winmo in the first place, but if you do, it wasn't with winmo 6.5. Probably not even 6.1, which isn't perfect but can be if you spend 30 minutes customizing it.
Hate to burst your bubble, but I work with commercial and pre-commercial cellphones professionally. I've worked with Symbian, BlackBerry, WinMo, Android, and iPhone. WinMo is definitely the one I dread dealing with out of all of those. That's 6.0, 6.1, and 6.5.
No sir, I don't like it.
I'm with CtrlBurn on this. Customize your MicroSlop OS all you want, but there's a lot more to device technology than the basis. I'm guessing his gripes are in relation to complex APIs and WAN behaviors, so if you find a skin that solves those issues, please let us know.
what I've noticed on engadget:
If you say "I don't think the iPhone is all that great", you get a highest ranked.
If you say "I don't think that WinMo is all that great", you get flamed and lowest ranked.
It's strange that the Engadget staff is spending time with this Buck Rogers device when they should be starting to head over to the WWDC at Moscone Center to where the real action is just about to start.
I could be reading science fiction if they're going to talk about handsets that can play HD video for ten hours on a single battery charge. It's an prototype Acer handset running WinMo 6.5. Enough said about the future.
Of course you do ctrlburn, everyone is an expert when someone calls them out.
Not quite, Brian. It has more to do with people saying they don't like something and not backing it up.
I wish Android would get a snapdragon, or tegra, or Omap3!!!
why does WinMo get all the best hardware (are you listening HTC!)
Don't you just love it when people complain about things they wish, in a post that's not even related to it? It's just plain annoying.
To asnwer the question of the Almighty:
Its Business.
TG01? What's that? :p
This is awesome but can it play back HD video for 10 hours before the battery dries? Tegra is said to be able to do that as well as 100 hours of music (ect ect) but I have yet to see a device that proves it. I have yet to see a tegra phone, that is. I'm really close to start thinking about it as vaporware.
no cell phone out right now that will let you talk for 10 hours let alone play video for 10 times that amount.
Well... think about it. Competition can be a good thing. The more competition, the better devices will get. Besides, what's wrong with a little competition. Well, from a consumers point of view, it's pretty fine.....I think.
Very impressive. I love it.
But I even if it's got a processor two generations newer than Tegra, NVIDIA's chipset trumps it in GPU power, with its abillity to handle seamless OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics.....
But I love it. It looks like a much better HTC Touch HD.
Snapdragon supports OpenGL ES 2.0 too... their graphics core is designed by ATI, who aren't exactly slouches in GPU performance.
Yep but Tegra has the much more superior GPU.
Another point: your GPU can be as fast as you like, but if the software doesn't use it, then you get no benefit.
Windows Mobile applications have to be especially written to use OpenGL because Microsoft's shitty old APIs are not hardware accelerated - most apps don't and so run 100% on the CPU. Snapdragon's CPU is a lot faster than Tegra's (well, this generation, anyway) so everything you do except for 3D games will be about 2-3x as fast on Snapdragon.
such a tegra phanboi :(
snapdragon is not a bad processor at all, you could acknowledge it without waving tegra around. it's like saying hey nice ferarri but the bugatti is still better. a compliment stands on its own, it doesn't need to be trumped, just makes you sound churlish
The speed is simply amazing. It would be so amazing if I could have this speed/functionality in the upcoming HTC Touch Pro 2/Diamond 2. I'd be in heaven with that speed and touchflo3d.
For now I'll keep chunking away with my Touch Pro.
Video pliz
err yeah.. I got it thanks...
What I noticed:
It doesn't detect the first 2 swipes.
The apps only appear instantly because they are running in the background.
It takes a whole 2 seconds to load an empty text file.
Also, why is the start and the x so tiny if it is designed for finger use. Still looks like Pocket PC 2000 to me.
*Looks* sexy, but I demand specs before forming an opinion...
Is smooth scrolling a new feature?
Again a prime example of why insane hardware is nothing without software to utilize it. I know everyone hates the iPhone references but I've had smooth scrolling on my iPhone for almost two years now.
I mean, really, what WinMo devices need more than super fast processors right now is the software to take advantage of it.