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... right... since KDE is a linux distro. good effort to understand. did you mean Kubuntu perhaps?]]>Jun 5th 2009 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
Did you say "UBUNTU PHONE"?......Sign me right the hell up.
I'll take 2]]>Jun 6th 2009 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.blogcdn.com/chinese.engadget.com/media/2009/06/xp_090601.jpg

battery time seems reasonable, windows 7 demands too much hardware, IMHO.]]>Jun 5th 2009 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
that actually makes a lot sense.]]>Jun 5th 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
Yes, they're both essentially humans.]]>Jun 5th 2009 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
"Same old shit in a new wrapper"]]>Jun 5th 2009 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
Since when did XP become "so awesome"? When Vista was released, I assume, but I don't remember overwhelming XP-love going on before that? Knee-jerk response to the Vista-dectractors, I suppose.

I, for one, am *very* happy to be moving beyond XP. As a sys admin, I would much rather support Windows 7 (or Vista, for that matter).

Just my $.02.]]>Jun 5th 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
XP can be ran on as little as 233MHz with 64MB of ram, even less if tweaked up.]]>Jun 5th 2009 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
The truth is: XP was fine in its day, but that day passed several years ago. It's old and clunky now. I'm not using a P233 with 64megs of RAM -- I'm running a quad-core with 4gigs of RAM. Time for an OS to match it. Oh, wait... Win7 does!

All I'm saying is that it's time to move along. XP is tired and needs to be put out to pasture.]]>Jun 5th 2009 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
With reduced requirements you'd get better battery life.

Lastly, how would SPLITTING the phone with a docking station work? Can the various USB, video, card reader & other ports be put on a docking station, leaving a svelte phone for pocket use?]]>Jun 6th 2009 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Yawn.]]>Jun 5th 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/

WTF, unbelievable. The raging anti-Microsoft hordes are so intolerant they'll spout their hate at the slightest mention of anything Microsoft.

]]>Jun 5th 2009 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
Oh look at that, an Engadget stalker. How creepy that you're going around checking out the stuff I post.
That aside, the failure of the Origami-style computers MS tried to introduce is no fabrication. It's an unbiased fact that Microsoft just does not know how to sell to consumers.


Engadget on MIDs:
"You know that MID / UMPC craze (remember origami?) that was supposed to change our lives? Well, it hasn't.
...sales of bulky, Menlow-based MIDs have been a disaster..."
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/mid-device-sales-far-lower-than-estimates-only-intel-surprised/


Gizmodo on these new MIDs:
"Like most Mobile Internet Devices, they're Atom-based Windows XP devices, which means their batteries last, oh, about three hours, and that they're too big to be pocketable. As for why anyone would want a phone number permanently assigned to one of these devices, I have no idea."
http://gizmodo.com/5278490/computex-spawns-hellish-mid-phone-phenomenon


UMPCs failed. MIDs, will be the same story.


What the market wants are Android smartbooks FREE of any version of Windows in them --just like when netbooks first appeared. Any netbook/smartbook dual boot with Windows is a failure for Android. Android is more than capable of emerging as its own platform all on its own.

Gizmodo:
"Acer's Android Netbook Will Come With Windows, Fail at Being an "Android Netbook""
http://gizmodo.com/5279925/acers-android-netbook-will-come-with-windows-fail-at-being-an-android-netbook

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As for your comments, you cherry pick from some (and I admit high-profile) blogs, but probably have not used any of those devices yourself. How sad that you cannot form your own opinion and can only listen to what others tell you to think. BTW, do you think it is a coincidence that UMPC was released, then a few years later iPhone was released? Where did Apple get the idea?

As for my partiality - I cannot write any more because I have a lot of people who are asking for new features in my iPhone app, and need to write some more code...]]>Jun 5th 2009 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
Wait, is that minuscule track pad?

This thing would suck to use.

Hold on I gotta make a phone call:

Start>programs>accessories>system tools>phone


]]>Jun 5th 2009 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/That clearly didn't help me illustrate my point.

My point being that It's clearly the wrong OS to put on a device like this..
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And this lasts longer or almost as much as those Intel MIDs? You don't say?]]>Jun 5th 2009 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
they are usually about 300-800Mhz, sometimes lower.]]>Jun 5th 2009 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/What does this do that a smart phone doesnt?

Make calls...
Surf the internet...
Word Process...
Store/play video music photos...
Play minesweeper... Aha!]]>Jun 5th 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/Jun 5th 2009 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
As for your comments, you cherry pick from some (and I admit high-profile) blogs, but probably have not used any of those devices yourself. How sad that you cannot form your own opinion and can only listen to what others tell you to think. BTW, do you think it is a coincidence that UMPC was released, then a few years later iPhone was released? Where did Apple get the idea?

As for my partiality - I cannot write any more because I have a lot of people who are asking for new features in my iPhone app, and need to write some more code...]]>Jun 5th 2009 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/xpphone-runs-windows-xp-gets-costumed-as-a-mid/
So, once again, strange that you accuse me of an Apple-only mentality when in this very thread I'm supporting Android, Apple's competitor in the web browser, mobile OS arena and quite possibly in the netbook/smartbook market. You must be the first self-proclaimed iPhone developer clown that I've ever seen trying to pin the development of the iPhone to UMPCs. You don't know your history do you?

1) 1993: Apple releases the Newton, the first general-purpose mobile computing device. Apple coins the term PDA.
2) 1996: Palm releases the Pilot. Microsoft copies the Newton and the Pilot with WinCE, gets smashed by Palm for years. (By 2000 the Palm OS powered 86% of all PDAs, then failed to innovate and allowed Windows to take over.)
3) 2001: Handspring merges the PDA and cell phone creating the first smartphone: Treo 180.

4) 2003: Steve Jobs was talks about a phone PDA at All Things Digital:
Walt Mossberg: A lot of people think given the success you've had with portable devices [iPods], you should be making a tablet or a PDA.
Steve Jobs: "I get a lot of pressure to do a PDA. What people really seem to want to do with these is get the data out. We believe cell phones are going to carry this information... We believe that mode is what cell phones need to get to."

5) 2004: Apple was already hard at work on creating the iPhone.
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=2

6) 2006: UMPC devices appear. Origami was the touch pack and basic touch interface skin from Microsoft on these devices.

7) 2007: Apple combines the sophistication of the Newton with the simplicity and affordability of the Palm Pilot, release the iPhone, becomes an instant success.

8) UMPCs fail at doing anything practical or very well, fail in the market place.

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