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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."
We have an HTC X7500 Advantage at work for testing purposes. The X7500 is identical to the X7501 save for the OS. X7501 ships with Windows Mobile 6. However, both of them are far too large and bulky to compete directly with the iPhone. For that, you want the HTC Touch P3450. We have several of these at work, and at half the cost of an iPhone and no operator lock-in, I much prefer it to the iPhone. The HTC Touch has .NET CF 2.0 SP2 in ROM, so it's a great development platform for homebrew apps.
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
If you are interested in having high quality time in your datacenter, you will look at having a non-portable GPS unit. At a previous jobs, we had a 1u rack mount time server that synchronized itself via GPS through an antenna on the roof. Similar to these. Of course, at a certain scale everything is portable.