Windows Mobile. A couple of years ago many have praised the operating system, as not very much touchscreen operating systems have been available, and the one from Microsoft has been one of the best of these. But today the situation is completely different, the iPhone came around, the Android has arrived and now here's WebOS from Palm, and Windows Mobile is only something with an ancient design and speed compared to these, and it cannot provide a user experience similar to those of the other operating systems.
HTC has been the first of the large manufacturers to do that today is considered to be a need by everyone: they have covered the lacks and gaps of Windows Mobile with a user-friendly and easy-to-use interface. This made the Taiwanese company to be the first in this segment, and this didn't happen by chance. The others seem to be only trying to follow the new trend, but no one has really found the right path. Asus is forcing a completely illogical structure, Toshiba's system is currently very slow, Samsung focuses on Widgets and customizability, while Gigabyte has been trying to astonish us with a very mediocre solution until now. But the situation has changed.
Today at 11 AM we've went to make an interview with Gigabyte's marketing manager, Jean Ko. The stand of the company is not in hall 8 like the other large manufacturers, but in hall 2, along with... how should I put it, the small companies. Given this, we didn't expect much from the meeting, we've been hoping that they have been fine-tuning the SmartTouch system and that's it. We've been really shocked when the lady at the booth has taken out the 106 x 52 x 11.4 mm large S1200, based on Windows Mobile 6.1 (will be upgradable to WM 6.5). We're having a completely new design, it's completely different than previous Gigabyte devices, it's minimalistic, it's clean and we think that it's simply beautiful. The handset is based on a 528 MHz Qualcomm 7200A chip, its display has a diagonal of 3.1" and a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, it has a GPS receiver and we can use HSDPA, HSUPA, Bluetooth and even WiFi for data transfer. There's nothing special until now, the big hit is the TouchZone menu system, which is based on Adobe Flash. Yes, Flash. Such a thing hasn't been done before, so it's hard to talk about it. Instead of that, watch the video below. Jean has noted during the talk: we would like if nothing would be visible from Windows Mobile. They have managed to do this and with that they are a challenge even to HTC.
Can you see that? It's lightning fast, simple and logical, the menu has elegant graphics, smooth animations and absolutely no lag. Until now it looks that a new standard has been born amongst the Windows Mobile interfaces that are developed by the manufacturer. Of course we will have to wait for the final model in order to judge it, but Jean Ko has assured us that there will be a sample available for testing next month, even though the first stage of launch will be Taiwan.
Translated by Szaszati
