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HTC2009 Superstar e Thoth

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NVIDIA TEGRA UI
From one of our many resources hidden deep within the “bush” we bring to you a spreadsheet with some handy info on it… All the specs, names and chipsets of the upcoming HTC releases.
WMPoweruser.com reported earlier on the leaked releases of these, but now we get to see some more names and specs. Its good to see the Thoth and Whitestone… And Seeing all the Windows Mobile 6.1 out there makes me think that they are coming out soon. I am very curious about the Star and SuperStar… And I am VERY intrigued by the NVIDIA AP16 chipset. It is also good to see all the WVGA screens coming out, but I’d like to see more storage/RAM and more speed out there like the Thoth! Stay tuned for some more great phones coming out!
http://www.nvidia.com/object/mobile_games_demos.html More details Nvidia GPU lol
NVIDIA® Tegra™ processors enable exceptionally rich and fluid 3D and advanced multimedia functionality, providing seamless access to a variety of features all through an intuitive user interface.
NVIDIA’s groundbreaking Tegra processors ship with an equally innovative set of software drivers to accelerate full, rich-media applications and compelling user interfaces. Software developers have tremendous flexibility to mix and match the awesome graphics and video power of the Tegra processors through the industry’s first full implementation of OpenKODE—the new, open standard that is inspiring the next generation of handheld experiences on Windows Mobile devices.
In an industry first, NVIDIA designed the Tegra processors to give each of multiple simultaneous applications its own “virtual GPU.” This vital evolution in media-acceleration sophistication has been combined with OpenKODE extensions from NVIDIA that enable user interfaces to take full advantage of graphics and video acceleration while providing sophisticated 3D transitions and navigation between multiple applications. NVIDIA is making a software developer kit with a re-usable collection of source code available to its customers and partners who are looking to significantly accelerate the development of advanced 3D user interfaces using the Tegra processors and OpenKODE.
Tegra APX Series
Tegra APX applications processors bring the power of visual computing to the palm of your hand, powering next-generation Microsoft Windows Mobile, Windows CE, and Android-based smartphones, portable navigation devices (PNDs), and portable media players (PMPs).
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tegra_600_us.html
Key features:
720p HD video capture and playback
The lowest power for demanding applications like 720p HD video
3D user interface that enhances browsing and content navigation
Premium HD video playback with NVIDIA® PureVideo® technology
Ability to access visually intensive online applications like mapping and gaming
Nvidia Tegra UI
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http://www.ppctuga.com/forum/editpost.php?do=updatepost&postid=2853

The THOTH does look appealing, but HTC + Qualcomm is not a good combination. It's coming out with WM 6.5, with WM 7 coming soon, I wonder if they will provide an OS upgrade.

anyone have a photo of htc superstar?

Android Getting Flash Support

Picked this up yesterday reading. from Informationweek.com
Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s Android platform soon will be getting support for Flash.
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE)'s Flash is a near-ubiquitous Web technology that's prominently used on popular sites like YouTube and Hulu, but it's generally considered too resource intensive to work well on mobile devices and smartphones. Adobe does have a Flash Lite product for phones, but it's not as robust as the full version. The software company Bsquare said it would be porting the technology to Google's mobile platform.
"Integrating Adobe Flash technology with the functionality of Google's Android platform will afford consumers the rich content and unprecedented applications they demand and is key to achieving success for our OEM and ODM customers," Bsquare CEO Brian Crowley said in a statement. "We believe that our value-added products and services can improve the Android experience for users and help our customers get their devices to market faster."
The move could give Google's Android platform a significant leg up on rival Apple and its iPhone platform. While iPhone users tend to surf the Web more than any other phone user, the lack of Flash support is still a sticking point with some users. Many industry watchers think it's a business issue rather than a technological one: Apple may not want to be tied to another company's proprietary technology, even if it's one as widely used as Flash.
After much public back and forth, it looks like Apple may go another route as the iPhone 3.0 software will enable developers to stream video to iPhones using HTML5. Apple will likely be by itself if it ignores Flash, as Adobe said it would soon bring the full version to major mobile platforms like Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Palm's new webOS.
So who can predict how close it is coming to us?
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im pretty sure this is only what most have already known.

I've always heard Q4 09, not because of Android, but b/c of Flash's estimated time to release Flash 10(i think?), which will support the mobile platforms.

"Soon" is a very open-ended term. Until I actually see that it's out, I'll consider it "vaporware."

derekedw said:
I've always heard Q4 09, not because of Android, but b/c of Flash's estimated time to release Flash 10(i think?), which will support the mobile platforms.
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Flash v10 is already available.

I'm not listening to this crap anymore

Apple launches sneak attack on smartphone world with ARM bid

This could end up changing the mobile phone market as we know it. Just proves that Apple is evil.
Apple launches sneak attack on smartphone world with ARM bid
Apple has never played well with others, and is well known for their use of proprietary technology to lock in customers and vendors.
Despite opening their own chip design company, it must have rankled to still have to rely on Cambridge-based ARM Holdings for the basic design of their chips.
Given their $40 billion cash hoard however Apple does not have to put up with the situation for long.
Rumours are currently going round in the markets that Apple is looking to buy the chip technology company for a cool $8 billion, seeing the ARM’s share price shoot up 8.1p to 251.1p, and more than five million shares changed hands by midday.
“A deal would make a lot of sense for Apple,” said one trader. “That way, they could stop ARM’s technology from ending up in everyone else’s computers and gadgets.”
ARM is somewhat of standard, with their chip design being widely licensed by many companies, including Qualcomm, Samsung and Marvell and all current generation smartphone operating systems being tied to the chip design. If Apple were to stop making available further design improvements to others it could leave other smartphone makers scrambling for an alternative which no longer exists.
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Kill Apple

Toss3 said:
This could end up changing the mobile phone market as we know it. Just proves that Apple is evil.
Source: wmpoweruser.com
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I like this guy. With a domination of Intel in a CPU field, he manages to run the company, that designed and manufactures the CPU everybody wants.

Apple will continue to rotten...

Android ported to C#

Good news for C# programmers (i.e. WP7 developers): Android ported on C#!
Oracle and Google are currently in a $1 billion wrestling match over Google’s use of Java in Android.
But Java is not the only way to build native apps on Android. In fact, it’s not even the best way: we have been offering C# to Android developers as a high-performance, low-battery consuming alternative to Java. Our platform, Mono, is an open source implementation of the .NET framework that allows developers to write their code using C# while running on top of the Java-powered operating system, and then share that same code with iOS and Windows Phone.
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Some test results:
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Read more at http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/

Either brilliant or crazy
Like one of the commenters over at the original article said, this is either brilliant or downright crazy: Running Android through a Java-to-C# translator and benchmarking the results...
Their ports of the .NET framework to iOS and Android are a little closer to home and should in theory allow sharing of large chunks of code between WP7, iOS and Android apps.
However, watching this scene for already quite a while, I didn't notice this making real waves, with high-profile applications built in this way.
I personally think the risk-reward ratio isn't worth it: One the one hand, 3 apps for 3 OS for maybe 1.5 or 2 times the effort of 1 app. On the other hand, dependence on a product from a small company and a framework that had a near-death experience already when Novell cancelled their support for the project.

In my opinion, that project has one HUGE cons: the product price. $999 is too much for individual developers and small companies (but they should be a primary targeted customers!) Bigger companies will prefer to hire Objective-C programmer(s) for iOS project and Java/Android guys for Android project(s).
Other stuff: Objective-C by default is faster than any CIL language, Android programmers have a better (and free) alternative to use industry-standard C++ via NDK. Also, Java codebase is significantly larger than C#; I saw too many C# projects ported from Java but no Java ported from C# Java is industry standard and I don't think Oracle vs Google fight will change something for regular developers.
P.S. And I agree: this project this is either brilliant or downright crazy

[APP][INTEL] CrossOver - windows app on android

The CrossOver Preview will let you run Windows software on Intel-based Chromebooks and Android tablets. Seamlessly run full- featured Windows software that is not available in the Google Play store alongside mobile apps. Run Windows utility software like Quicken and Microsoft Office, or DirectX games, like Wizard101. Games from your steam library will run with CrossOver Android at native speeds. Get rid of remote sessions and multiple devices! With CrossOver Android you’ll only need one device to run your Windows programs and mobile apps.
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LINK CROSSOVER 15.5 alpha1
Produced by CodeWeavers, CrossOver is a commercial version of the more well-known Wine, the application that lets you run Windows programs on other operating systems such as Mac and Linux. commercial version means that additional technical support and an extremely simple configuration system to enable rapid installation for all users. The CrossOver operation is extremely simple and takes place thanks to a virtual desktop. With CrossOver will be even able to start video games on Steam. That said, it should not get excited too because the hardware of Chromebooks and Android tablets are certainly not at the height of the most intense games from a technical standpoint. Another important limitation of CrossOver is that it can only be used on Android devices that use an Intel processor, a big nut to crack since the Android tablet with this type of processors are not that common at the time.
I have test the app on Intel PC x86 with REMIX OS 6.0
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CodeWeavers

As you wrote the main problem is that only intel based tablets can handle this app

It would be great on Remix-OS for PC as most PC's use Intel Processor's.

xdaorxan said:
As you wrote the main problem is that only intel based tablets can handle this app
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but I think we will soon be extended only to other type of devices, its only the first alpha version @Heisenberg @Perseus you can move the tread on REMIX OS PC selection?