Windows 8 spotted running on the HTC Shift portable computer/phone
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The 2007 HTC Shift could have been a good product, nonetheless its original implementation sucked. A Portable phone/computer device that ran Windows Vista and allowed a customized version of Windows Mobile to run on the back. With its low specs: Intel A110 Stealy CPU 800 MHz and 1GB of RAM, the product was riddled with troubles and resource hungry Vista made it useless. But now [URL="http://blogs.distant-earth.com/wp/"]D J Willis[/URL] has managed to run Windows 8 on this model, and for its really low specs, it runs surprisingly well! a video in french has been posted, and I'm impressed:
[video=youtube;ATsDKMQu9I4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATsDKMQu9I4[/video]
The animations are smooth and the device appears to be fully functional. The is a really good example of the type of devices we should be looking forward with Windows 8 in the future.
[thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/HTC_Shift.jpg[/thumb]
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The HTC Shift, running Windows Vista.
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Why not in the windows subforum or the windows 8 thread in the windows subforum
[QUOTE=barttool;32460753]it runs surprisingly good![/QUOTE]
surprisingly well*
It does appear to function nicely on the phone, and the interface is also fantastic in my opinion.
[QUOTE=Danny Lol;32460818]surprisingly well*
It does appear to function nicely on the phone, and the interface is also fantastic in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
Fixed, thank you.
Too bad the resolution's too small to open apps.
very nice they finnaly changed task manager. Well i use system explorer anyway.
He needs to drink a glass of water, I can't understand half of what he's saying
[QUOTE=Panda X;32460974]Too bad the resolution's too small to open apps.[/QUOTE]
It's the perfect hardware for an interface like that though so I'm sure MS will make something work.
Metro belongs on tablets and phones, and maybe netbooks, but not desktop PCs.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;32462279]It's the perfect hardware for an interface like that though so I'm sure MS will make something work.
Metro belongs on tablets and phones, and maybe netbooks, but not desktop PCs.[/QUOTE]
I think it could work on PCs given enough applications. The people who do heavy multitasking won't like it though. But it seems that this day and age a lot people use their computers just for web browsing and writing up a document, or a quick game. All of which work fine in Metro.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/A2cSz.png[/IMG]
That's Steam, on a mobile device.
And it being Windows 8 you can download Crysis on that thing.
Do it, video creator. [B]Max it out. I dare you![/B]
[QUOTE=mac338;32463097][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/A2cSz.png[/IMG]
That's Steam, on a mobile device.
And it being Windows 8 you can download Crysis on that thing.
Do it, video creator. [B]Max it out. I dare you![/B][/QUOTE]
The thing would shit itself just by clicking on the icon.
[QUOTE=barttool;32463734]The thing would shit itself just by clicking on the icon.[/QUOTE]
One day we'll be able to do it though.
Some day...
probably doesn't have the hardware to run it. iirc crysis bitches about insufficient requirements if you're not up to spec
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