Engadget http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Microsoft and Wistron come to terms in royalty agreement, Android and Chrome OS now targeted]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/05/microsoft-and-wistron-come-to-terms-in-royalty-agreement-androi/http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/05/microsoft-and-wistron-come-to-terms-in-royalty-agreement-androi/http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/05/microsoft-and-wistron-come-to-terms-in-royalty-agreement-androi/#comments We're seeing a heavy surge in Microsoft's relentless pursuit of licensing deals in light of recent patent-infringement claims. Wistron Corp, a spinoff of Acer, is the latest company to make an agreement with Microsoft in a string of lawsuits and royalty clashes that's spanned the course of two months. While we've seen Android suppliers such as Itronix and Velocity Micro come to agreements with the folks in Redmond, as well as others like Motorola and Barnes & Noble becoming courtroom fodder, this is the first time Chrome OS has been targeted. Wistron's an ODM (original design manufacturer) that supplies other companies with computers, tablets and e-readers using either Google OS, so it's not necessarily a surprise that it signed up for the Microsoft lawsuit prevention plan. Scant details are available aside from the fact that royalties will be collected as a result. Now that Chrome is involved, it not only shows that Team Ballmer isn't backing down, it appears to have even more companies in its crosshairs -- we just wonder who's next on the list. Full (albeit brief) PR after the break.

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Microsoft and Wistron come to terms in royalty agreement, Android and Chrome OS now targeted originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>androidgoogleinfringementlawlawsuitslegallitigationmicrosoftpatentpatent infringementPatentInfringementpatentsroyaltiesroyaltysettlementswistronTue, 05 Jul 2011 15:56:00 EST<![CDATA[Microsoft reveals ARM-powered Windows 8 prototypes (eyes-on)]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/01/microsoft-reveals-arm-powered-windows-8-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/01/microsoft-reveals-arm-powered-windows-8-prototypes/http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/01/microsoft-reveals-arm-powered-windows-8-prototypes/#comments Remember how Microsoft unveiled that whole "Windows 8" thing earlier today? It's back for more: here at Computex 2011 in Taipei, prototype ARM-based Windows 8 slates and smartbooks are coming out of the woodwork. Foxconn, Wistron and Quanta all unveiled early hardware for the new OS, with chips from Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and NVIDIA powering their live tiles -- including NVIDIA's upcoming Kal-El, which got both a tablet and a super-slim prototype notebook to call its own. Dell's also got a XPS development station up on stage, which Microsoft used to demo the UI -- it's bulky and ugly as such things are, but it suggests that Dell's also likely to have a portable Windows 8 machine at some point. For its part, Qualcomm is promising a chip that can instantly wake from sleep, and one of the devices showed that USB host support works fine and dandy. Unfortunately, none of these machines will make their way to market, but it's nice to know that the OEMs care enough to show their solidarity here.

Update: Video now added after the break.

Gallery: Windows 8 devices at Computex 2011

Gallery: Windows 8 ARM development devices from Qualcomm, TI and NVIDIA

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Microsoft reveals ARM-powered Windows 8 prototypes (eyes-on) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Despite a litany of missed launch dates, bankruptcy filings, and corporate buyouts, Polymer Vision continues to trudge forward, and we're more than happy to ogle its latest flexible screen. This time, the new hotness is a six-inch SVGA display repeatedly rolled-up 25,000 times at a radius of only six millimeters. The resulting scroll is apparently slightly smaller than a dime. With that kind of repetitive endurance, this tech seems well suited for building that Readius-like eReader Wistron promised a while back; not that we're holding our breath, or anything.

Polymer Vision's latest display rolls up, still doesn't ship out (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 May 2011 03:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>displayse booke bookse inke readere readerse-booke-bookse-readere-readersEInkflexible displayflexible e-paperFlexibleDisplayFlexibleE-paperpolymer visionPolymerVisionrollable displayRollableDisplaysvgavideoWistronMon, 30 May 2011 03:41:00 EST<![CDATA[Mosaid gets into WiFi patent game, sues 17 companies including Dell, Canon, Asus, and RIM]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/mosaid-gets-into-wifi-patent-game-sues-17-companies-including-d/http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/mosaid-gets-into-wifi-patent-game-sues-17-companies-including-d/http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/mosaid-gets-into-wifi-patent-game-sues-17-companies-including-d/#commentsMOSAID Files Wireless Patent Infringement Litigation OTTAWA, Ontario - March 17, 2011 - MOSAID Technologies Inc. (TSX:MSD) today announced that it has initiated wireless patent infringement litigation against the following companies: AsusTek Computer Inc.; Atheros Communications, Inc.; Canon U.S.A., Inc.; CSR plc; Dell, Inc.; Digi International Inc.; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Intel Corporation; Lexmark International, Inc.; Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.; Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.; Ralink Technology Corporation; Realtek Semiconductor; Research in Motion Corporation; Wasp Barcode Technologies, Ltd.; Wistron Corporation; and Venture Research, Inc. The suit was filed on March 16, 2011 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division. MOSAID believes that the companies have infringed and continue to infringe MOSAID's patents by making and selling products that comply with or implement the IEEE 802.11 family of communications standards, known as Wi-Fi. The standards-essential patents in suit are MOSAID's U.S. Patent Nos. 5,131,006; 5,151,920; 5,422,887; 5,706,428; 6,563,786 B1; and 6,992,972. Whether or not you agree with their tactics, lots of companies are finding it quite lucrative business to spend more time in the courts than in the research labs. CSIRO got some tasty settlements back in 2009, while just a few months ago Wi-LAN received "a significant amount" in a settlement from Intel. Now it's Mosaid's turn, a Kanata, Ontario-based company that bills itself as "one of the world's leading intellectual property (IP) companies, focused on the licensing and development of semiconductor and communications technologies." Indeed it just licensed some of those properties to LG on the 15th, but the very next day it filed suit against a 17 defendants for infringing on six of the company's patents, relating to network discovery, multiplexing, and other wireless techniques. Among those companies is RIM; which has its Torch, Style, Curve, Pearl, Bold, Storm handsets called out; and Asus, which has a long line of motherboards, routers, and other products said to be in jeopardy. As ever it's hard to draw the line between the patent trolls and the legitimately infringed, but that the lawsuit was filed in litigation-friendly Marshall, Texas doesn't leave us with a particularly good feeling.

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Mosaid gets into WiFi patent game, sues 17 companies including Dell, Canon, Asus, and RIM originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gallery: Wistron WiGO 1 at CeBIT 2011


Gallery: Wistron WiGO 2 at CeBIT 2011

Wistron's WiGO 1 and 2 streamers win iF design awards, presumably for strangeness originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>ifif design awardif product design awardIfDesignAwardIfProductDesignAwardmedia streamerMediaStreamerstreamerwigowigo 1wigo 2Wigo1Wigo2wistronWed, 02 Mar 2011 11:22:00 EST<![CDATA[Sony said to be outsourcing production of high-end LCDs, Foxconn and Wistron getting the nod]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/18/sony-said-to-be-outsourcing-production-of-high-end-lcds-foxconn/http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/18/sony-said-to-be-outsourcing-production-of-high-end-lcds-foxconn/http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/18/sony-said-to-be-outsourcing-production-of-high-end-lcds-foxconn/#commentsSony said to be outsourcing production of high-end LCDs, Foxconn and Wistron getting the nod Potentially bad news this morning for fans of high-end Sony HDTVs. The company, still struggling with huge losses and desperate to find reasonable pricing for its exported TVs amid historically high values for the yen, is looking to outsource not only assembly but full panel production on many of its LCDs. According to the report, up to 80 percent of Sony's 2011 sets will be manufactured externally, with between 40 and 50 percent of those getting panels manufactured by Foxconn-affiliate CMI. Foxconn itself is said to be producing 18 million sets, while Wistron, the other major partner here, will stamp out Sony's Google TV. If true this will be the first time Sony has outsourced full production of its higher-end models to Taiwan. None of this has been confirmed by any of these players, so apply salt to taste, but the concepts certainly make sense, and recent production slowdowns at the company's massive new LCD production facility could be related. Naturally you're wondering whether this move to help Sony's bottom line will hurt quality, but since Sony just sold one of its major panel-production facilities to Foxconn last year maybe this isn't so much a change as it is keeping things the same.

Sony said to be outsourcing production of high-end LCDs, Foxconn and Wistron getting the nod originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>foxconnlcdlcd manufacturinglcd panelLcdManufacturingLcdPaneloutsourcingpanel manufacturingPanelManufacturingsonywistronyenMon, 18 Oct 2010 07:47:00 EST<![CDATA[Toshiba seeks to prevent Wistron laptop imports to the US]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/toshiba-seeks-to-prevent-wistron-laptop-imports-to-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/toshiba-seeks-to-prevent-wistron-laptop-imports-to-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/toshiba-seeks-to-prevent-wistron-laptop-imports-to-the-us/#commentsDon't you sometimes wish legal squabbles like this actually delivered on their promises? There's pretty much no way that Toshiba's patent claim with the US International Trade Commission will lead to a ban on Wistron imports -- the company builds laptops for Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and others, and will likely settle in cash long before any rulings against it -- but it's fun to imagine the mayhem that would result if such an eventuality were to materialize. A quick look at the rankings of global computer vendors shows that Toshiba is mostly trying to throw a banana skin in front of its direct competitors, claiming as it does that Wistron products infringe on its methodologies for touchpad production and file saving when the laptop loses power. The ITC, should it decide to investigate, will take up to 15 months on this matter, so no breath-holding is advised just yet, though if that settlement does eventuate it should be a pretty breathtaking number.

Toshiba seeks to prevent Wistron laptop imports to the US originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>aceracer aspireAcerAspireaspire 4810tAspire4810tbandisputeimportsinfringementinternational trade commissionInternationalTradeCommissionitcjapanlaptopslawlegallitigationodmpatentpatent disputePatentDisputepatentstaiwantoshibaus international trade commissionUsInternationalTradeCommissionwistronMon, 25 Jan 2010 02:02:00 EST<![CDATA[Manufacturers redirecting R&D on declining GPS device orders?]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/manufacturers-redirecting-randd-on-declining-gps-device-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/manufacturers-redirecting-randd-on-declining-gps-device-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/manufacturers-redirecting-randd-on-declining-gps-device-orders/#commentsIf you enjoy the decimation of an industry as much as Google does then you're going to love the latest rumor sourced from DigiTimes' manufacturing moles. According to the Taiwanese rumor rag, personal navigation device R&D teams at the manufacturing powerhouses of Foxconn (aka, Hon Hai) and Wistron have been shifted to other devices in the face of "declining PND orders." Seems logical as GPS-equipped smartphones snuff out their dedicated forebears with the same converged precision that turned wrist watches into items of fashion. The strange part of this DigiTimes rumor is that said manufacturers have shifted those PND teams to focus on e-book readers and (are you ready?) MIDs. Man, if the world's largest manufacturer of consumer electronics sees MIDs as a more economically viable option than personal navigators, well, maybe things are more dire for TomTom and Garmin than originally feared.

Manufacturers redirecting R&D on declining GPS device orders? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lenovo ThinkPad W701 hints at Core i7 Extreme in FCC reveal originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We've had a soft spot for Polymer Vision in the fetid hollows of that place you call a heart ever since we pressed flesh to its Readius back in February 2008. Unfortunately, we had to let go of any hope for the bendy e-reader to ever hit the market after delays turned into bankruptcy turned into cries of noooo! the world over. Now coddled in the corporate arms of Wistron we hear from Brian Chong, head of Wistron's product planning, that a 5-to-6 inch device with a pull-out flexible e-paper display of similar design to the Readius will launch in 2010. By similar design we hope they've included Bluetooth, dual-band HSDPA, tri-band GSM / EDGE, microSD expansion and SMS capabilities of the original.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>brian chongBrianChonge-readereinkereaderpolymer visionPolymerVisionreadiuswistronThu, 12 Nov 2009 01:07:00 EST<![CDATA[Slinky Lenovo laptop prototype outed by FCC]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/slinky-lenovo-laptop-prototype-outed-by-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/slinky-lenovo-laptop-prototype-outed-by-fcc/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/slinky-lenovo-laptop-prototype-outed-by-fcc/#commentsSlinky Lenovo laptop netbook prototype outed by FCC Ooh, what's this? A new netbook from Lenovo, or some other flavor of tiny laptop? Little is known about the subject of this FCC filing from hardware assembler (and resurrector) Wistron, other than it will have a 10.1-inch screen, a 3-in-1 media reader, and plenty of wireless options including Bluetooth, WiFi, and HSDPA data. Dimensionally the device, referred to as the 0251, would fit into the IdeaPad category, but with no mention of processor or storage there's still some room to hope for something equally small but with a bit more chutzpah. Yeah, we're optimists.

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Slinky Lenovo laptop prototype outed by FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>0251fccideapadlenovonetbookwistronMon, 02 Nov 2009 07:31:00 EST<![CDATA[Polymer Vision gets new lease on life thanks to Wistron]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/polymer-vision-gets-new-lease-on-life-thanks-to-wistron/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/polymer-vision-gets-new-lease-on-life-thanks-to-wistron/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/polymer-vision-gets-new-lease-on-life-thanks-to-wistron/#commentsPolymer Vision gets new lease on life thanks to Wistron Poor Readius, we barely knew ye and your folding e-ink screen before parent company Polymer Vision went bankrupt and, well, that was the end of that. Or was it? Wistron apparently made a bid for the remains of the company over the summer and, as of September, Polymer was acting as a division of the Acer spin-off. The Wistron board has finally approved the €12 million ($18 million) investment and so where once there were two companies now there is one. The jury is still out on whether the Polymer Vision brand will survive, but its technology -- and legend -- will still burn.

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Polymer Vision gets new lease on life thanks to Wistron originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember that new and improved reference MID that Elektrobit (better known as EB) announced back at IDF? Yeah, that very device was on hand at Intel's booth at CEATEC, though not a soul was allowed to touch it. The unit was neatly planted beneath freshly Windexed glass alongside three others, two of which certainly put an impressive label on Wistron. We did learn that the EB slate would boast a 3.97-inch capacitive touchscreen with an 800 x 480 resolution, though further details on the lot were scant. Have a peek below to see if EB's take on the niche MID might actually cause you to take notice.

Gallery: Elektrobit and Wistron MIDs pop up under lock and key at CEATEC

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Elektrobit and Wistron MIDs pop up under lock and key at CEATEC: hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After the IFA show in Berlin a few weeks ago, it's clear that 3D is getting a big push by some powerful players in consumer electronics. Unfortunately, you won't find many editors around here chompin' at the bit to replace their new Full HD flat screens for a 3D-capable one... and we've seen the demos! Now a Commercial Times report has HP and Dell signed on with Wistron to produce 3D laptops -- Lenovo and Sony are still negotiating. Of course, we've already seen desktop systems powered by NVIDIA's GeForce 3D Vision solution. And rumors have swirled in the past regarding a possible HP laptop using 18.4-inch 3D panels developed by Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) and a Wistron-developed 3D laptop solution based around NVIDIA's Vision technology. Thing is, if 3D isn't that compelling on screens 40-inches and above, how's it going to woo consumers at this size?

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HP and Dell working on 3D gaming laptops? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In recent months, we've seen both Lenovo and Acer push out rather stylish all-in-one PCs. Clearly, both firms are hot to trot for the form factor, with DigiTimes reporting that the duo has big plans for future expansion in the area. Specifically, Lenovo is rumored to launch an entry-level 20-inch unit (C300) next month, a C100 and quad-core B500 in August and an ultrathin A300 variant in October. Meanwhile, Acer is said to be preparing an 18.5-inch model produced by Wistron, though there's no indication if it's actually different from that eMachines EZ1600 we heard about earlier this month. Look out, tower -- the end is nigh. (Just kidding, we only wanted to see your reaction.)

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Lenovo and Acer rumored to be prepping new all-in-one PCs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gallery: Wistron's Snapdragon-powered PurseBook eyes-on


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Wistron's Snapdragon-powered PurseBook gets demoed originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Steppin' out in the world, are we ARM? Shortly after hearing that OLPC was eying the brand for processors in the XO-2, Digitimes is now reporting that ARM-based platform makers including Qualcomm and Freescale are looking to unveil netbooks at this year's Computex trade show in Taipei. Granted, none of this has been confirmed just yet, but we're hearing that a model with Freescale's i.MX51 CPU (the ARM Cortex A8) and a version with Qualcomm's Snapdragon CPU (to be manufactured by Wistron) will be on hand. Not shockingly, in the same breath we're told that NVIDIA Tegra-based systems will appear "at a later time." So, is Computex the show where Intel finally takes a little heat in the netbook market? And no, VIA didn't (and doesn't) count.

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ARM-based netbooks primed to invade Computex? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We're not sure what sort of shenanigans ARM gets up to, but it managed to amass itself quite the interesting collection of netbooks for its MWC booth. Information was scant, but they were showing that Freescale i.MX-based Pegatron netbook and nettop we saw at CES, an ultrawide 11.1-inch Snapdragon-based netbook from Wistron, a Snapdragon-based convertible tablet netbook from Inventec Alaska, and a totally odd "tech demo" of a Qualcomm-based Wistron MID semi-running a sketch version of Windows Mobile 6.5. Most all of the systems were in some level of prototype form, and seemed unbearably slow at running whatever prototype flavor of Linux they happened to have, while the MID didn't really seem to operate at all, at least to our touch. Still, it's clear that Snapdragon and Freescale i.MX are allowing for some pretty wild and thin form factors while still rocking decent battery life.

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ARM's stash of netbook oddities and a Windows Mobile 6.5 MID originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>armfreescalefreescaleimxinventec alaskaInventecAlaskalinuxmidmwcmwc09netbookpegatronsnapdragonubuntuwistronFri, 20 Feb 2009 14:53:00 EST<![CDATA[ARM debuts Sparrow multicore netbook processor]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/arm-debuts-sparrow-multicore-netbook-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/arm-debuts-sparrow-multicore-netbook-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/arm-debuts-sparrow-multicore-netbook-processor/#commentsWe've had our eyes peeled for ARM Cortex-based netbook news, and now among the action this week at MWC '09 we're getting our first look at Sparrow, a Cortex A9 processor aimed squarely at netbook manufacturers. This is a multi-core update to the Cortex A8 (processor of choice for the Palm Pre and Pandora), and it's been speculated that this could be the processor for the next generation iPhone, with "at least triple the computing power of the ARM11 processors found in the [current] iPhone and T-Mobile G1." Toshiba, Pegatron and Wistron are all said to be showing demos of their ARM-powered netbooks at the conference this year, with a company spokesman saying that Ubuntu for ARM will go public in April, with Sparrow phones coming to market sometime in 2010. Additionally, companies like Adobe, On2, and Symbian are said to be "tuning their apps to run on the latest cores from ARM" as we speak.

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ARM debuts Sparrow multicore netbook processor originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Though it bears a vague resemblance to the utterly nonexistent device pictured in Android's emulator, rest assured: the GW4 QWERTY phone from Wistron NeWeb doesn't run Google kit. It does however run some other homegrown flavor of Linux, giving promise that it could end up as a nice little clean slate on which to drop an Android image when the time comes. Like the physical phone itself, the existing UI seems really functional, if not a little rough around the edges; you get VoIP, weather and stock widgets, WiFi, and Bluetooth, though you won't find any HSDPA, UMTS, or even EDGE here. Not a bad effort, guys -- keep crackin' and we might see you fighting for market share with the OpenMoko types of the world.

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Hands-on with Wistron NeWeb's GW4 Linux phone originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Though it bears a vague resemblance to the utterly nonexistent device pictured in Android's emulator, rest assured: the GW4 QWERTY phone from Wistron NeWeb doesn't run Google kit. It does however run some other homegrown flavor of Linux, giving promise that it could end up as a nice little clean slate on which to drop an Android image when the time comes. Like the physical phone itself, the existing UI seems really functional, if not a little rough around the edges; you get VoIP, weather and stock widgets, WiFi, and Bluetooth, though you won't find any HSDPA, UMTS, or even EDGE here. Not a bad effort, guys -- keep crackin' and we might see you fighting for market share with the OpenMoko types of the world.

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Hands-on with Wistron NeWeb's GW4 Linux phone originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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