The fruit loving boys at Gizmodo have just posted two videos of the Zune HD in actions. In the first one you can see the UI in action while the player is hooked to an HDTV :
The second video is a basic UI walkthrough:
I don’t want to say more—this is not a review, and [...]
Here’s an interesting presentation made Microsoft’s newly hired Johnny “Wiimote Master” Chung Lee during the Thinking Digital conference last May.
Venturebeat is also running a series of articles called Conversations on Innovation sponsored by Microsoft:
We’ll be publishing the pieces over the next few weeks. Beginning Wednesday, we’ll tackle our first theme: natural human interface technology. Here, [...]
I’m still having doubts about all these HTC Leo specs and render leaks. But anyway I’ll just let you judge by yourself.
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Update: Looks like they are real
Source: ai.rs via: WMPowersuer
Marcus Perryman’s just posted part 2 of his Windows Mobile 6.5 Touch API article. This time he goes a little bit deeper into how the physics engine handles users interaction and updates the framerate and talks about the new WAGI (Windows Auto Gesture Interface).
WindowAutoGesture Interface (WAGI) provides configurable gesture handling for individual windows taking away [...]
TechFlash got a chance to sit down with Microsoft’s Brian Seitz from the Zune team who gave them a 6 minutes long demo of the ZuneHD. Lots of features are shown, like the browser, Pins menu, history, media controls etc.
Source: TechFlash
Looks like HTC is hard at work lately. They just filed a patent for what looks like a magnetic stylus which should be able to interact with a capacitive touch panel. It’s kind of ironic givin’ that Microsoft is doing their best to make Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7 stylus-free. HTC found a [...]
Microsoft has just released the official specs of the Zune HD. The battery life is rated at 33 hours when playing music with wireless off and 8.5 hours of video. Here’s the list of the Audio & video formats supported:
Audio:
Windows Media® Audio Standard
(WMA) (.wma): Up to 384 Kbps;
constant bit rate (CBR) and variable bit rate (VBR) [...]