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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."
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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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.
Does this look like an iPhone killer to you?
Death and danger are my various breads and various butters.
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."
Perhaps...if you manage to drop it on the iPhone just right that is.
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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.