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Elonex 710EB

Posted by Charbax – September 6, 2010 – View Comments

7″ LCD resistive touch screen e-reader.

Windows CE 7

Posted by Charbax – June 24, 2010 – View Comments

So this is what Windows Compact Embedded 7 looks like! The unskinned version of WinCE7 looks basically quite a lot like WinCE6, but perhaps this new version of Windows CE has got some new optimizations to use ARM Cortex A8 and the more advanced hardware acceleration fully. And perhaps Windows CE 7 is meant to receive layers of customized user interfaces put on top of it, like Windows Phone 7 Series and like other potential UIs that partners of Microsoft surely are working on. Can this be considered an alternative to Windows 7 for ARM processors? I don’t know. How much can it really do?

dmobile shows MIO V720 7″ Tablet with built-in Wimax

Posted by Charbax – June 5, 2010 – View Comments

dmobile is showing some Tablets with built- in Wimax and HDMI video output.

Besta 10″ Samsung ARM Cortex A8 Laptop prototype

Posted by Charbax – June 4, 2010 – View Comments

Here’s a Smartbook based on the Samsung ARM Cortex A8 processor. it runs Windows CE 6. Made by manufacturer Besta. It seems pretty fast at browsing the web.

Shuoying 10′ Laptop “U100 1A”

Posted by Charbax – June 1, 2010 – View Comments

ARM 11 processor, Windows CE, approx. 120 US$ for large quantities.

Asus Eee Pad runs Windows Embedded Compact 7

Posted by Charbax – May 31, 2010 – View Comments

Here is one very cool looking, ultra thin and ultra light tablet by Asus powered by Windows CE7 and running on an NVidia Tegra processor. It’s only 0,48 inches (1,21cm) thick, sports a touchscreen and a built in camera, supports Adobe Flash and is said to have 10hrs of battery life. Asus announced its release for end of 2010/beginning of 2011 but did not reveal the price. According to rumours it will start at $399.


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Freescale Futuremark 3D benchmark

Posted by Charbax – May 26, 2010 – View Comments

A Freescale graphics expert shows a benchmark from Futuremark running on Freescale i.MX51, leveraging the processor’s OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU.

Windows 7 for ARM? (Microsoft calls it Windows Embedded Compact 7…)

Posted by Charbax – May 5, 2010 – View Comments

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So the Microsoft engineers have been working hard on their next generation of Windows for ARM processors, the next generation of Windows CE. Will it take advantage of all the ARMv7 features, ARM Cortex A8 and ARM Cortex A9 and other hardware acceleration features, such as using the GPU to accelerate its user interfaces? Windows Phone 7 Series is based on the Windows Embedded Compact 7 core.

I asked Olivier Bloch, Microsoft Embedded technical evangelist a few questions on how Windows Embedded Compact 7 is different from Windows 7 for x86:

Windows Embedded CE and its next version, Windows Embedded Compact 7 are not based on Windows binaries (vs. Windows Embedded Standard which is a componentized embedded version of Windows).

Windows CE has been developped from scratch with a different OS architecture and driver model ensuring hard real time and very small footprint. Windows CE is also disigned to run on different CPU architectures (x86, MIPS, SH, ARM). The other big difference is that you compile Windows Embedded CE when you design a CE OS.

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Windows Embedded team is investing a lot in adding new features, creating new tools to support these new features, analyzing the Embedded market really seriously…

I also (jokingly) asked him if it was going to be open-source and free, to that he could not reply.

Anyways, it will be very interesting to see how much Microsoft is investing in this development of their embedded OS core that Microsoft would like to be used across ARM powered devices like Tablets, Laptops, Set-top-boxes, E-readers and more.

What will Microsoft price it at? And if they price Windows at a low price for future ARM Powered laptops, tablets and phones, as Android is free and open source, will the potential auto-cannibalization of Microsoft’s x86 based PC/Laptop be a problem for Microsoft to be able to keep its overall revenue and profits?

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JKKmobile.com: Mio Moov at CeBIT 2010

Posted by Charbax – March 10, 2010 – View Comments

New Mio Moov with capacitive multi-touch 3G ARM11 Tegra1 powered GPS navigation device, with a keyboard connected to the leather case, with an interface built on top of Windows CE.

Source: http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2010/03/mio-moov-at-cebit-2010.html

MAG Digital presents Windows CE that looks like Android in a Tablet

Posted by Charbax – March 2, 2010 – View Comments

This is a 7″ Windows CE tablet, but with a very interesting user interface, comes with GPS, HDMI output, based on a Telechips processor that playsback 1080p video, is based on Windows CE that I think is made to look like Android.