06-23-2007, 01:00 PM
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WinCE Compal Ultra Mobile Device
"Although it's still proudly donning the proverbial prototype badge, a nifty machine from Compal was spotted at Computex running Windows CE 5.0 in favor of the battery-draining XP or Vista. Simply dubbed the UMD (Ultra Mobile Device), this ultraportable supposedly pulled double duty as a smartphone and even played nice with HSDPA."
Unveiled at Computex a couple of weeks back, this Compal device is pretty intriguing especially since it first appeared in April as an Intel prototype for their Menlow platform to be released next year - our thoughts on that appeared here. The UMD however sports a Freescale ARM processor rather than an x86, so Vista and WinXP are out of the question. That and the need for better battery life may explain why the UMD runs WinCE, though why not Windows Mobile I'm not sure. In any case, the specs are damn nice with 256MB RAM and HSDPA. Commentary roundup and pic galleries below:
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06-25-2007, 11:39 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jan 2007
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I like it but pls let it NOT be WinCE 5.0 !?
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06-26-2007, 04:31 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Too big for win ce
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06-26-2007, 06:20 AM
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Intellectual
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06-26-2007, 01:53 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Put WM6 on it, and I would be a potential buyer :?
It would be a XDA Flame killer, with WM6, WideVGA screen, and slideout keyboaed, plus the big processor, and plenty of build in storrage.
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06-26-2007, 02:21 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Originally Posted by TOCA
Put WM6 on it, and I would be a potential buyer :?
It would be a XDA Flame killer, with WM6, WideVGA screen, and slideout keyboaed, plus the big processor, and plenty of build in storrage.
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Well it will have what WM7 will be based on, but the lack of support for it by 3rd partyu software at this point is what concerns me.
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