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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'
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.
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."
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.
Thats why it is called WinCE. It makes me wince just imagining being forced to use it!
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
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)
Cheers!
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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 your car, synchronized over 3G/HSDPA or EDGE, and it doubles as a navigator. Most PDA's have tiny 2.8" screens that make them unsuitable for use in a car, IMHO; you lose focus on the road when trying to read details off a small screen.
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
Just out of curiosity, did you type out that entire comment using the Wiimote? If I tried that, I'd probably dislocate my shoulder, or just have my arm fall off entirely.
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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This is what will really fill that void between PDAs and UMPCs. Two pounds, 200 bucks, built-in wireless, comes with Linux installed, but can run Windows too.
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
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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Yes...if I can replace the battery.
Heroscape, it's like legos combined with anachronistic wargames.
If your PDA has only 128MB of flash you'd better start looking at some of those penis extension patch spams.
My old phone (nokia 9300) has 1GB, my new one (nokia E90) will have (initially) 4GB.
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You believe the only two options for a telephone are "soul-crushing" or "fun"? Who's trolling who?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Take a look at PDADB - most PDAs have in the region of 128 MB internal flash and SD card slots for expansion. The X7500/X7501 is a notable exception. The Nokia phones you mention are not PDAs. Still, it's certainly no great challenge to buy a 4 GB micro-SD card if you need the space. I got just such a card for my PDA, and it's very nice being able to move it between PDA and laptop for refilling.
:)
The only reason you need lots of memory in a PDA is if you want to store music or movies, or other bulky data files. Most Windows Mobile-based PDAs are not built for this purpose; they're for business professionals. It takes a whole bunch of Excel or Word documents to fill up even 32 MB
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
Why should I care if the memory is "internal" or on a card?Why do you think I don't need more that 640K?
Watch this Heartland Institute video
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.
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