Photoshop or Pocket PC Smartphone?

[Andy Sjostrom]

<a href="http://www.wapzon.com/web/devicedetail.asp?Pid=1040">http://www.wapzon.com/web/devicedetail.asp?Pid=1040</a><br /><br />Looks like this Onis C01 uses a Pocket PC user interface but has the looks of a Smartphone. "Windows CE 3.1 Operating System" according to the specs. Verdict: Photoshop product! Agree?<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/onis_01.jpg" />

[Janak Parekh]

Agreed - I think they were supposed to paste a Smartphone screenshot, and messed up - note that it's a shot of PPC 2000. However, if there was a blue version running PE 2002, I might just snap it up. :)

--janak

[Peter Foot]

Definately a knock up job.

Otherwise just look at how small the text is, you would need an electron microscope to read your emails 8O

Is there such thing as Windows CE 3.1??, the last version was 3.0.111 something...

[T-Will]

Is there such thing as Windows CE 3.1??, the last version was 3.0.111 something...

Maybe they meant Windows CE 3.11 for workgroups? :wink:

[Marc Zimmermann]

Verdict: Photoshop product! Agree?
Yup, definitely. Microsoft is strict about the Pocket PC feature set. Besides, the screenshot shows a Pocket PC 2000 taskbar... ;-)

[Ed Hansberry]

Definitely photoshopped.

I found the original.

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2003/20030130-c64.gif

They are apparently resurrecting the ultrasmall kernel Commodore 64 for mobile phones. :lol:

[Jason Lee]

OOOH! OOOH! Will it run all my old commadore 64 programs!? :lol:

[Abba Zabba]

Did anyone else read these:

16 million colours TFT LCD display screen.
FM stereo radio
Support MP3 and MPEG4.
Support Bluetooth, USB and flash card slot

Sounds like this thing could also drive your car while doing your taxes :wink:

[innersky]

It doesn't have the required buttons for smartphone2002, so yes, photoshop.

[JMountford]

are you guys kidding this could totally be a legitimate picture!!!

Yeah for like andre the giant sized to scale.... :roll:

[JMountford]

wait I just found out the Production name for this is VaporPhone...

[JMountford]

did you all se the picture of the "Trium Mercury"? It looks like it could be a Windows Powered Smartphone.

[bdegroodt]

Definitely photoshopped.

I found the original.

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2003/20031030-c64.gif

They are apparently resurrecting the ultrasmall kernel Commodore 64 for mobile phones. :lol:

Is that a blue screen of death I see? :twisted:

[T-Will]

I wonder when Microsoft will come out with Windows XP DOS Edition for Smartphones?

[vincentsiaw]

i don't understand why they 'photoshop' this thing instead of revealing the real stuff...

[steddyman]

Why is it a fake guys? Pocket PC phone editions can come in that form factor so long as the screen res is 240x320.

Look at this device from Intermec with integrated GSM/GPRS/Phone. This looks just like a Smartphone device but is a big bigger and includes Pocket PC OS:-

http://home.intermec.com/eprise/main/Intermec/Content/Products/Products_ShowDetail?section=Products&Product=CMPTR700COLOR&Category=CMPTR&Family=CMPTR2

Steddy

[Dave Beauvais]

i don't understand why they 'photoshop' this thing instead of revealing the real stuff...
In most advertising, screens are "simulated" because the display of the actual product simply does not photograph well. (Take a photo of your Pocket PC and see for yourself.) It's all about appearances. Look at an office furniture catalog; how many desks do you see with computers actually on them? Quite a few? Now look and see how many of those computers are actually plugged in or connected to something with cables. Cables look bad and detract from the appearance of the furniture they're trying to sell, just as a crappy photo of a screen looks bad.

Additionally, in some cases the firms that create these images often have no idea what the product actually is, so they just slap a "PDA screen" on since all PDAs are the same. (Either that, or the artists don't get paid enough to care. :)) That's why you have advertisements for PCs with Mac screens, Palms with Pocket PC screens, etc.

--Dave

[GregWard]

i don't understand why they 'photoshop' this thing instead of revealing the real stuff...
In most advertising, screens are "simulated" because the display of the actual product simply does not photograph well.
--Dave

Yeah - but that's OK. The "cheat" is actually a better representation of what a real user would get than a photo. I don't even mind (as long as it's flagged properly) a mock-up of a vapourware product. BUT it needs to one that COULD be made RIGHT NOW if the interest level was right.

To say you can make something you can't is, at best, confusing but normally what they call a plain lie!!!! :evil:

[yada88]

This is not even a good photoshoping. The Windows flag in the top left if this were a real windows smartphone would be 4 pixels small. Not what microsoft is going for.