Got Zumobi in your Blackberry or your Windows Mobile phone?. want a 2008 Beijing Olympics Widget for it?. well. thanks to a Lenovo – Intel promotion you can get one. then the only thing you have to do is go to http://lenovo.zumobi.com and download it. as any good Zumobi widget, it is a four tile Zoom Space. that means 4 quick access tiles for your Olympic fix.
Zumobi 2008 Beijing Olympics Lenovo Widget
via Sarah Perez
This is another kind of Chumby . Cowon is going to release a Pocket Internet Device Frame that showcases that its main feature is a Haptic Widget UI for the operation of the device. there is no many details on that but that is exactly as how cowon describes it. another example of the use of Widgetized UI`s as a way to enhance usability.
It packs quite great specs for such a device:
“800 x 480 pixels spread across a 5-inch touchscreen display featuring Cowon’s Widget+Haptic UI riding a 700MHz RMI Alchemy AU1250 processor. The P5 packs standard USB and USB-host jacks, T-DMB broadcast TV, FM radio, Bluetooth, TV-out (component, S-Video, and composite), stereo speakers, and up to 80GB of storage in a 138.8 x 88.5 x 20.0-mm slab of "Luxury Hairline Metal" (which sounds like brushed aluminum to us). It comes pre-installed with a Win CE Internet browser (a clumsy WiFi dongle can be added via the USB jack), MS Office document viewer, electronic dictionary, and support for AVI, ASF, WMV, MPG, OGM, DivX, Xvid, MPEG4, WMV9, MP3, WMA, AC3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and a few more media formats/codecs with a battery capable of about 9-hours of video or 14-hours of straight audioâ€
I certainly would like to try one out.
via Engadget
I wrote about zumobi back in January when they passed from beta to version 1.0 if i recall correctly and i remember having thought it was a cool app only limited by the support it had at the time and because it was still not as swift as it could be.
Half a year changes everything because Zumobi now fully supports WM from 5.0 to 6.1 and now it also offers support for the latest generation of blackberry devices:
Zumobi runs on Windows Mobile and BlackBerry phones.
Zumobi currently runs on phones featuring Windows Mobile 5 or 6. While Zumobi is compatible with most phones running Windows Mobile 5 or 6, we find the application runs best on Windows Mobile 6 or higher phones given their faster processors and higher memory capability.
For BlackBerry, Zumobi is currently optimized for Pearls (81xx) Curves (83xx), , and 88xx series phones with operating systems 4.2 and above. Phones produced since approximately June 2007 and later are likely to run better, given their faster processors and higher memory capability.
This is of course a very good boost to Zumobi and i think it was just the push it needed to gain more traction. one could are that it still needs Symbian support but that is relative, i think it would be could if it could support the latest palm devices instead.
The software was not the only thing that got better. Zumobi now also got a better selection of Widgets (tiles) to offer and a more fool proof way to make sure you get the widget you want.
You can also develop Widgets for Zumobi if you want because they offer a SDK and documentation in case you want to try Zumobi as a way to get into mobile widget development. there is also a simple rss tile creator so you can add any rss feed and make it a tile
Pretty much the only direct competition that Zumobi got in the mobile space is Goojet but goojet aspires to more than just offering a service to mobiles and it is a mix of what zumobi offers with a mobile web widgetized webtop. but Zumobi is a lot more refined than goojet because it has been in development for even longer than Goojet (in theory) and because it originally had the backing of Microsoft at its side.
One could say that Goojet is the right choice for all kinds of lower end and medium range phones and zumobi would be the right choice for those with Windows Mobile and Blackberry Smartphones.
Zumobi
When it was announced at CES 2008 i said:
Back in the launch of Origami 1, the interface consisted of a launch screen full of buttons. this time around the start screen is composed of a info display full of widgets that serve both as a quick view display, launch launch buttons and desktop. from what i can see it is like a mix of the windows mobile Today screen, with the concepts of Sideshow and the vista sidebar thrown together.
why this is news?, well, because the execution of how widgets are changing also the way to look at interfaces is kinda cool.
just imagine a launch screen like the one in the iphone where the launch icons are active widgets at the same time they are buttons. that maybe could not make sense in a mobile phone, but it does makes sense in a umpc.
Not much has changed but what has changed is the restrictions and the fact you can now download it and try it out if you have a Vista UMPC or a Vista Tablet PC for that matter.
This is something i would love to try out in Ultra Portable with touch screen. it would be very useful way to use it.
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