It's been a long, long time since Emblaze Mobile and ACCESS engaged in
holy cellphone matrimony, and the fruit of that relationship is finally coming to bear. It's called ELSE INTUTION, a Linux-based mobile platform that comes with such a hyperbolic press release that we can't help but think every other mobile manufacturer should just pack up and go home. It's said to match the functionality of "top ranked MP3 players, best-in-class GPS devices, and more, while maintaining an exceptional ease and simplicity of use." Golly. At this point we only have a few images to go by, and though they do look plenty nice, we wouldn't consider our minds blown just yet -- particularly those of us with a left-handed bias. Remember, ACCESS is the company that
turned Palm OS into Garnet OS and then failed to win anyone over with its
Access Linux Platform, so what could go wrong here? What's it going to be, readers:
WebOS or ELSE?
Update: Another right-handed pic (ironically taken on an iPhone) added after the break.
posted Oct 23rd 2009 7:14AM
So this is a phone?
It's a phone OS, like Windows Mobile, WebOS, Android, etc.
Else is a device, not an OS.
It is supposed to be a damn good one too! check out it's features:
a 3.5-inch, 854 x 480 capacitive touchscreen WiFi/3G/Bluetooth/GPS, built in accelerometers, and a 5 MP camera. As far as radios go, it’s stuffed: WCDMA/HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Quad-band 850/900/1800/1900MHz and Tri-band 850/1900/2100MHz.
“Else” looks like it could compete with some of the bigger names
Meh
Not bad looking. I like that style of controls on the right. If it doesn't go lefty mode, I feel sorry for ya.
Only 7% to 10% of people are left handed. They made this right handed only because the devlopment cost to make it left handed didn't match up with the demand from those 7%. Just be careful using this if you are left handed, over 2500 people die each year due to being left handed and using right handed products. Buyer beware.
@Eric B,
Is that for real? I'm lefthanded and never had a life threatening encounter with a right handed scissor or mouse. Then again, I only write, throw and kick with my left hand, the rest I do with my right hand. But if it's true a lot of people die for being left handed I would be proud for "living on the edge" ;)
@Thijs
You bet it's true, but thanks for stopping where you did with explaining what you do with your left and right hands.
Oh dear.
I really thought Access was going to...you know...do something with Palm OS.
Palm OS is, like ahm, you know, dead.
Compared to Iphone or HTC's TouchFlo it's just plain old. So yea, why not sell it next to SuperMario Bros. I and PacMan?
Jo_82 did you hit your head and forget about the Palm Pre?
No, he didn't. The Palm Pre runs on WebOS, not PalmOS.
Few images? I see only one.
They have a proven track record of destroying the once great Palm OS,
with palm cobalt OS, and another mobile linux OS that ran palm apps, both OS did NOT get used by any company or manufacturer including palm
What are you talking about? Palm OS sucked.
before thay stopped updating the OS it back in 2002 it was good, after 2005 i fully agree it sucked
Isn't Android the mobile Linux-based OS of our dreams?
No no that Maemo :) .
I like these new mobile phone operating system wars, but hopefully whoever comes out on top it isn't MS. I don't think I could stand them being able to take the mobile space and the desktop space. I'd put money on android/iphone OS but I'd really like web os to be in there.
Nah it's cool. all of the best mobile OSes are unix based. ;)
I think they would be much better off creating a skin for Android/iPhone/Windows Mobile if they believe their user interface is superior!
they cant work with maemo?
I'm not answering this last question as long as I don't have a real video hands-on of the system.
But, that being said - It does look a LOT better than Emblaze Mobile's first phone sold in Israel about 9 years ago...
is there a simulator software so we can try the phone online?
"ELSE is equipped with TI's OMAP 3430, Bluetooth and built-in GPS. 3.47 Display type / 854 × 480 dot LCD touch panel. Equipped with a 500-megapixel camera that can also shoot video. Internal memory is 16GB. Dimensions are 115.6 × 56.6 × 13mm (length × width × thickness)."
500?!?
well that's a game changer...
Ironically taken on an iPhone?
(non-ED Note: Why is it ironic, or even curious that ANY mobile device took the picture? Is taking a picture with a mobile phone the opposite of what you would expect someone with a camera phone to do? Is it unprecedented that a mobile phone has been used to snap a pic of another phone?)
How do I give you more than plus 1?!
I think engadget is expecting the developers to use the phone to photograph itself in the picture.
Not a bad looking device, but too much bezel for my taste and I'm not sure about those right side controls...
I'm right handed in every other case, but I have always used my left hand for operating my phones.
(insert "makes it feel like a stranger" joke here)
I think the OS was the point, not the device it's running on.
This phone does everything if you can remember all of the commands.
I initially cringed at the use of 'ironically'. But then I considered that maybe the sentence meant that it was 'ironically taken'- as in by a hipster geek with ironic hair/t-shirt/mustache. Maybe.
Last night I was searching good collection of the mobiles and spent great time to get a suitable one. After having great time on internet,
The interface looks shwanky - but does it function as well as it looks?
V A P O R
If they actually implement local (USB) hotsync there will be a market. Just google < "palm pre" hotsync > to get an idea. Even Palm seem to have pitched the baby out with the bathwater on this one: not everybody wants to keep or even move their personal data through the cloud. As the sidekick has recently reminded us.
ALP originally was going to offer a forward-looking hotsync, not just the legacy system now provided (sort of) by Motion Apps' classic. What's it going to be, Emblaze?
As I'm reading the comment it seem people only seem to talk about WebOS Andriod and IPone implementation of OS X. But funny thing is that most mobile phones are running on various iterations of Symbian OS and that hasn't even been mentioned here!! Have you people forgotten about S60 5th edition!!! Sony Ericsson, Samsung and Nokia all use it in there top of the line touch phones. The best thing about Symbian OS is that the UI (user interface) is implemented separately. So really its buy far the best OS to create truly enervative and unique UI on. Well thats what I think at least.
Hi,
Here is a quick and limited preview of the phone's UI.
http://zoome.jp/itmediamobile/diary/223
Thanks,
Rogue Maverick
In London next week there will be a media event on 24 November to launch the Emblaze ELSE. I have heard that the press,TV and analysts have been invited.
I remember reading an Engadget article about Access Corporation Japan and their new OS Else Intuition about 3 weeks ago.
The following gives you some idea of what is coming in next weeks launch.
http://www.else-mobile.com/#/news
In London next week there will be a media event on 24 November to launch the Emblaze ELSE. I have heard that the press,TV and analysts have been invited.
I remember reading an Engadget article about Access Corporation Japan and their new OS Else Intuition about 3 weeks ago.
The following gives you some idea of what is coming in next weeks launch.
http://www.else-mobile.com/#/news