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AMD Phenom and John Woo's Stranglehold In Action
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."
Could this be the Long Anticipated iPhone Killer?
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'
It also makes a great cup of coffee!
AMD posted a $600m loss. Heres hoping their new processor line (barcelona and phenom) can fix things for them - I'd hate to see Intel lose its only competition.
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"It's essentially a cross between a UMPC, Phone, PDA, and portable GPS."
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.
Also if you check with troops who have carried the "portable" military GPS units around the mountains of Afghanistan you will probably find that they consider those unit to be "non-portable". Want to send a "care package" to troops over there, send a Garmin or something.
Will only 4 cores be enough to render all the flying doves and the ten thousand bullets that Chow Yun Fat will fire as he glides down the stairs?
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
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.
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
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I had a brief opportunity to play with one of these at a focus group (for a company looking to get input as to what people want in mobile communications/entertainment devices).
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 mobile devices with a fold-out bluetooth keyboard would work much better.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
With Samsungs "budget" Q1 Ultra at the same price point (with 800mhz CPU, 60gb hard drive, 1 gb Ram, Windows Vista ) I fail to see how this will sell.
Some may point out that Windows Vista is not a selling point - but neither is Windows CE.
> 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.
But, won't the non-portable GPS get left behind in the crater where your house used to be?
Gotta think these things through!
Will it switch to slow motion anytime anything remotely resembling action begins to happen to make sure no one starts to get excited?
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
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)
Ah, yes. Back in the day, when I was a surveyor, we called these non-portable GPSes "Benchmarks"
The site this story links too is the most Wii unfriendly site I've seen on the thing. The Wii seems unable to zoom to the body of text, you have to actually back out of the image...
I guess I'll have to read it later.
Did anyone notice that the device included the Nvidia GO video chipset while using the AMD processor? Guessing that this is something build prior to the ATI purchase or ???
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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)
on one hand I know competition is good, but on the other hand I want AMD fan boys to suck it.
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... So many pimps for this mojo guy's website??
Yes...if I can replace the battery.
Heroscape, it's like legos combined with anachronistic wargames.
...John Woo's Stranglehold On Action.
And I thought: "That's right."
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Some cowardly moderator appears to be a fanboy for the HTC Advantage 7501. Well then, you should try actually using one before you complain on my remarks, which are from first-hand experience! They had everything from a Sony Milo to the new LG phone, though sadly no other devices had power.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley