AMD Phenom and John Woo's Stranglehold In Action 80
MojoKid writes "AMD hosted a small gathering in the Penthouse at the SoHo Grand Hotel in New York City yesterday to demo some products due to be released in the coming months. HotHardware attended the event and snapped some photos of the various demo stations. The shots and info regarding the AMD quad-core Phenom-powered system running John Woo's Stranglehold (Unreal 3.0 engine) will be of interest, as will the slick notebooks, HTPCs, and hand-held devices, like the HTC Advantage 7501. It's essentially a cross between a UMPC, Phone, PDA, and portable GPS. The device features and AMD Imageon processor, 8GB of flash memory, a 5" touch screen, and a built in magnetic QWERTY keyboard, GPS navigator and 3MP camera."
iPhone Killer? (Score:2, Funny)
it has a nice feature list.....
but I'm sure that there will be a few hundred alleged iPhone killers released in the next few years.
-I'm just sayin'
Re:iPhone Killer? (Score:5, Informative)
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So...you're trying to say that Windows is quality and performance?
That seems an unlikely belief, for slashdot.
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haha...sigh. I hate when some take a perfectly good expression, and then fucks it up by trying to make similiar ones
Clue:
the iPhones quality is better, it's performce is higher, and it's value is greater then the newton.
OOPS! looks like it's got all three.
Moron.
iPhone was an example, but it could be said about any fucking technology.
in fact, it has been increased quality, increased performance, increased value and decrease in cost
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OOPS! looks like it's got all three.
It's got quality. It's got performance over most other smart phones but value...? 600 plus a 3yr lock in. Except for Apple Zealot it has little value. As those who need all those functions can get 80% of it for 30% of the cost via a black berry and those that don't can spend 10% of it and get a decent phone.
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Features aren't the same as functionality.
Windows Mobile has a checklist of features randomly scattered around an interface that was clunky even on a big screen. I haven't used an iPhone, and maybe never will, but I hope it wakes up the phone makers to the fact that there's a market for PDA phones that are DESIGNED for little screens, not ripped wholesale from a desktop OS.
I've been stuck with Windows Mobile on my PDA phones for far too long
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Operating System: Windows Mobile 6 Professional
I saw that and it's enough of a deal breaker for me to ignore any and all features of this phone. It could raise baby Jesus from the dead and I wouldn't buy it, because I already know it'll only summon him on a full charge and only if no 3rd party apps are installed. WM is pure shite.
Re:iPhone Killer? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:iPhone Killer? (Score:5, Funny)
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itll be ready for next fall
Pre-order it now!!
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People need to stop referring to every new smartphone as an iPhone-killer. Call it a BlackBerry-killer or a
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It's called a design trade-off. I definitely scroll and zoom way more often than I select text. Phone screens are limited --- binding the common actions to easy-to-use mechanisms makes a lot of sense.
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If you can get it to run Linux half of
Re:iPhone Killer? Yes (Score:2)
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And while I'm being grumpy, please don't everybody complain because it's not just a barebones phone. I'd like to go on a business trip without a laptop someday, OK?
Re:iPhone Killer? (Score:5, Insightful)
They don't need to convince anyone anymore. The iPhone already has convinced enough people.
Even if you don't like the iPhone, you should be glad it exists. It sets a new standard for a phone UI. For the first time, there's a phone that whose UI is universally liked; a phone that does not only look good and not only has a neat list of features, but is also fun to use. This is good for everyone, because it forces the other phone manufacturers to do what they should have been doing for the last decade: Start making phones aimed at users instead of at carriers.
Precisely my point. (Score:1, Troll)
That's precisely my point. Your phone sucks. There's no reason why using a phone has to be a soul crushing experience.
(Also, I know you were trying to flamebait me. Not sure why you felt the need to do that (maybe for fun, hah), but I would like to add that my notion of fun is not limited. By definition, it is your notion of fun that is more limited than mine if yours does not include using a cell phone while mine does)
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Dude. Obviously, using a cell phone will not crush your soul. It's a hyperbole. Why are you trying to flamebait me?
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No Feature List will kill the iPhone (Score:2)
it has a nice feature list.....
To be an iPhone killer, it doesn't need a nice feature list. It needs an amazing user interface that makes the features it actually has usable and fun.
(Yeah, yeah, a good UI could be thought of as a feature, but it's not something you'll usually see in a feature list)
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Cheers!
Also yesterday... (Score:4, Insightful)
I have mixed feelings (Score:3, Funny)
Portable you say? (Score:5, Funny)
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Many GPS units are non-portable ... (Score:2)
As opposed to all those non-portable GPS units that are so popular nowadays. I bought a very expensive non-portable GPS and had it installed in my basement, so that I will immediately know if Carmen Sandiego steals my house.
I realize you are joking, but this joke needed to be rethought/reworked. Mobile != Portable. Many GPS units are not portable, portable as in carried by a person, and are installed in cars, aircraft, ships, etc
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however, civilian GPS signal is apparently less accurate because noise is intentionally added, see graph here: http://www.byte.com/art/9602/img/511022c2.htm [byte.com]
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My understanding is that the military GPS have a more limited battery life, heavier spare batteries, and that for normal navigation the civilian units are more tha
Re:Portable you say? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Portable you say? (Score:4, Funny)
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4 Cores (Score:5, Funny)
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Dangit, I wanted to make the flying doves joke.
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HTC 7501 (Score:1)
article forgets to mention it runs on an Intel CPU.
the HTC Advantage 7501 is designed to fill the void between underpowered PDAs and expensive UMPCs. It should be available sometime towards the end of the summer at around $900.
How does the $900 mark "fill the void" between PDAs and UMPC? and it's just a (very) expensive PDA with a bigger screen. I don't see what features it has that set it apart from other high-end PDAs except for that screen.
at least the tidbits regarding the cool/quiet running of the Phenom processors seemed encouraging, I really hope AMD can at least close the gap between Intel and themselves.
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How does the $900 mark "fill the void" between PDAs and UMPC? and it's just a (very) expensive PDA with a bigger screen. I don't see what features it has that set it apart from other high-end PDAs except for that screen.
It has a 4 GB microdrive, external VGA out and a 600+ MHz CPU. These are not common features for PDAs, most of which have around 128 MB of flash memory split between OS, applications and user data, and 200-400 MHz CPUs. The X7500 is designed to be a laptop replacement, though I don't think it's a very good one. I much prefer my TyTn [pdadb.net] to the X7500 we have at work.
The big 5" screen and GPS means that the X7501 is probably quite nice when semi-permanently mounted into a vehicle. You'd have your office in yo
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My old phone (nokia 9300) has 1GB, my new one (nokia E90) will have (initially) 4GB.
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The only reason you need lots of memory in a PDA is if you want to store music or movies, or other bulky data f
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Why should I care if the memory is "internal" or on a card? Why do you think I don't need more that 640K?
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Just Get It Into My Hands (Score:4, Funny)
AMD quad core K10's
Flying cars
Televisions you unroll and hang on your wall
Battery/Capacitor hybrids giving the best of each
Truly efficient, cheap solar cells
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You must be new here...
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Have used an HTC Advantage 7501... (Score:1)
I was not really impressed. First of all, the thing is bigger than pictures make it look. Way bigger. No pocket for this thing!
Secondly, the UI response was very laggy. I just couldn't see this thing in any way replacing a laptop.
The screen was very large, but it didn't appear the resolution was very high.
I'd say any number of mobi
Oh then, you've used one (Score:2)
$900 for Windows CE portable? (Score:1)
Some may point out that Windows Vista is not a selling point - but neither is Windows CE.
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John Woo is making a video game? (Score:2)
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Nvidia Go on AMD???? (Score:1)
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