Although Intel made some waves yesterday with the announcement of the
smartphone-capable Moblin 2.1 release, the reality here on the ground at IDF is pretty much status quo: phones and other connected devices based on the next-gen Moorestown mobile platform are nowhere to be found, and the actual products on the floor are the same chunky MIDs we've all come to know and ignore. But while the devices remain somewhat uninteresting, Moblin itself has some terrific potential from what we've seen -- there's deep location and social networking integration with a unified contacts list that works a lot like Palm's Synergy, standard Linux apps can be easily ported over and run without any fuss, and manufacturers and developers can even ditch the standard UI and develop whatever they want on top. It's definitely cool stuff -- we just wish Intel had given us this demo on a compelling hardware instead of an older Menlow-based Compal MID, you know? Video after the break.
posted Sep 23rd 2009 4:24PM
Huh.. for some reason at first I thought that was a TV...
Same. It looks like your average EPG.
It is a TV, that man's hands are just giant.
well atoms are better than arm cpus that they usually put in mids
What a MESS of unorganized and useless information!
Isn't Moblin from intel, and didn't they sell of their ARM-based XScale IP to Marvell?
Moblin is linux based software. Yeap, another WinMo competitor that
wants to squeeze MS. Enjoy the show while WinMo falling off the
cliff.
First of all, the smartphone market is dominated by Blackberry not WinMo, maybe among 3rd parties its WinMo, but that's beside the point because it's not what I was asking about at all
Who's babs and why are you having lunch with her? LOL
I must admit... while I am loathe to accept another mobile OS (or anything from intel for that matter), that home screen looks dead sexy and useful.
Yeah it reminds me of something.... I know, Windows Mobile Home Screen, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....
I am starting to really liking this better than Andriod from what I have seen, and since is running a more robust/full linix os, app support is suppose to be better. Not sure how this will compare to Nokia's Mameo, but another option(even though nothing new is being shown) is great for us.
social networking should die a painful death!
Again I'm biased because I'm not into all this social networking crap, so I have to totally agree with you on that. It's almost as if the whole industry is trying to shove it down our throats any chance they get:
"Hey! Try some of this social networking - how about some facebook! Some twitter! Oh no, you don't...get back here you son of a... you ain't escaping our social networking trap that easily!" *evil laugh*
I'll second that, just to let you guys know you're not alone.
I really like some elements of Moblin, and its over-arching UI metaphor and design are great. But I've been running it as a secondary OS on my Aspire One for some months now, and some of it is just really, really broken. Most of the social functionality exists in concept, but bugs the hell out in certain conditions. For example, if you don't have a network connection, the status page (a top-level screen) reports that you need to set-up an account. Also, the chat is really buggy, and fugly to boot. Moblin is still in the "potential" phase. If they can ever get past it, it will be a pretty whiz-bang UI.
I've had the stupid PowerBook G4 for only 1 day, 1 day and I hate it! I tried going on gamefly.com but it only shows the website in text form. How do I change this please?
OK, we know where Moblin is, but where his brother Goblin???
great but too rich for anything
Just let me know when someone decides to release a Moblin distro for AMD Chipsets... :(
Intel is great and I honestly like NVidia's support more than ATI, but AMD/ATI can get more bang for your buck!
That's one big cluttered mess. Not a single item of focus. The message screen is completely lost. It looks like a linux guy put it together just because he could and it ended about there.
I hate the Linux Foundation.... They lost their second chance of being a dominant operating system when netbooks were being sold in many retail stores.....