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Submission + - Dell Starts Selling Linux PCs

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yonp

on Friday May 25, 2007 @11:43AM

yonp writes: "Dell today announced three systems, two desktop machines and one notebook, with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux factory installation. MobileTechReview posts:

"Available in the U.S. after 4:00 p.m. CDT today at www.dell.com/open, the systems target the Linux enthusiast community and are a direct result of extensive customer feedback received since February via www.ideastorm.com, the company's Web site for fielding customers' suggestions to improve products, services and operations. About 30,000 IdeaStorm community members advocated that Dell offer systems with Linux pre-installed, and more than 100,000 participated in a follow-up survey to help determine customer preferences, including which Linux distribution to offer initially.""

Submission + - T-Mobile Wing Doesn't Fly in High Speed

Submitted by yonp on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @12:03AM

yonp writes: T-Mobile updates their Windows Mobile Pocket PC phone offering with the T-Mobile Wing, made by HTC. MobileTechReview has a review of the phone that has only a few things to bring it to the compete what's now a standard set of features such as Bluetooth 2.0 and a 2MP camera. The big update is Windows Mobile 6 which is expected to be on most of PPC phones/smartphones this year. Interestingly the new device seems slow in speed: "The Wing, like the MDA, is no speed demon. The last generation of GSM Pocket PC phones tried the low processor speed approach for bettter battery life and lower cost. The latest generation has largely returned to the 300 to 400MHz range while the Wing sticks with the old TI OMAP 850 CPU running at 201MHz. Indeed battery life is very good but speed is just acceptible. But application launch times, even control panels, are laggy and we occasionally found ourselves pressing a button one time too many as the delay fooled us into thinking we hadn't sucessfully pressed it the first time. Screen rotation takes about 3 seconds and launching an app for the first time (after a reboot) takes 2-3 seconds. Once a program is left running and is thus still in memory, switching back to it will only take 1 second. But given the Wing's 15.8 megs of free RAM at boot, you might not want to leave lots of memory hungry apps running in the background. The device has 64 megs of physical RAM, used like RAM in your computer, with 43.87 total shown as available, 28 megs in use and 15.82 megs free at boot which is a bit low. Things are sounding grim, aren't they?"

Submission + - Palm Announces New Palm OS Treo- the Treo 755p

Submitted by yonp on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @12:07AM

yonp writes: Palm announced a new Palm OS Treo, the Treo 755p for Sprint. Review of the device on MTR says: The improvements are more than skin deep with stronger Bluetooth, improved voice quality and better pictures from the 1.3 megapixel camera. The Treo 755p runs Palm OS 5 (Garnet) and is a CDMA phone with EVDO for Sprint. It has a 320 x 320 pixel display, Bluetooth 1.2. MiniSD card slot and a higher capacity battery than the Treo 680 and 750. Is this worth upgrading? Put in your opinion!

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