Jas Manghera Blog

Hugo, from ubertablet.blogspot.com, managed to get the HTC Shift for a few days. He had a chance to test it out and make a video review on his blog. More from Hugo:

I had The HTC Shift for a little over 60 hours and was able to play with many of its great features, which include Pocket PC, HSDPA, Vista Business, Tilt Touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard and more. It is an incredible device with many possibilities, this video will hopefully showcase some of that. I managed to literally squeeze it into a very tight schedule I am running at present and did what I could to cover off some of the burning questions folks might have. Machine specs (as tested):

• Windows Vista Business (3 hrs battery)


• Intel Santa Rosa A110 Processor


• 1GB DDR2 RAM


• 40GB HDDHSDPA (Data only) ready


• Web CamBiometrics


• Windows Pocket PC (over 5 days battery life when used exclusively)Qualcomm
  400MHz Processor


• 64MB RAM

I just recieved word that a small company DualCor designed and patented a similar device, found here. Of course this begs the question does HTC already have an agreement with DualCor and their use of the patent or will this product be held up in patent hell?

Been a long time since my last blog post, and in that time I've been very busy with all sort of things going on in my life (more details in a future post). At work I'm working on a mControl client for Windows Home Server.

There is a good preview of Windows Home Server on Paul Thurrots winsupersite here.

The really cool thing about Windows Home Server is how it addresses one of my pet peeves: running an automation client on a pc. Now before you technogeeks say isn't WHS a pc? well yes and no. Yes in the sense it is a Windows machine and therefore is every bit a PC. But what really distinguishes WHS is the design paradigm. WHS is designed to be running headless (meaning without a keyboard or monitor attached) and it is also expected to run 24/7. So whilst WHS may be a PC it's design and operation differs radically from current home PC's.

With WHS, mControl finally finds that stable home PC (doh there is that word again) that it can further leverage being available anytime, and of course the end user benefits with a lot more than just a simple automation.