Launcher: It is the launching point for applications on UMPC devices and what you see in many of the marketing materials. At its simplest form, Program Launcher basically gives the user a way to easily categorize their applications to make them easier to find and easier to open on a small form factor pc. It’s also totally cool looking!
Won’t it be cool to have a button that has only the favorites that the user can customize to his / her needs ?
WIDWIWD(What I Did was What I Wanted to DO)not the actual name:This is just a little utility that a user can run that makes Windows more useable on a small, touch enabled computer. It makes about 10 setting changes to Windows such as widening the scroll bars, enlarging the minimize and maximize buttons, showing folders in thumbnail view, etc
Those Fat thumbed ones will for sure prefer a Bluetooth or a Full Sized Keyboard that has a dock for the UMPC.
Brilliant Black - A Customized Media Player: In order to make the media playback experience a breeze on the UMPCs they built a skin that fills the entire screen on the devices with large buttons to navigate the media controls such as play, stop, volume, etc.
Hope these BIG, Real Estate Consuming, Easy to use UI(not sure though) would have the AUTO HIDE feature built in to it, otherwise it’s pointless to have a 7″ Screen and watch videos in 5″ Look at this, you know what we mean…
DialKeys: This is built by a company called Fortune Fountain Ltd. and it is a really cool way to do text input with your thumbs.
We can imagine the finger prints that we’ll have on our UMPCs, hope some cool fingerprint proof screen protector comes up soon.
Sudoku: A completely addictive game that is huge in Europe right now and gaining popularity in the U.S. as well.
Well we just found out someone has booked the umpcgames.com domain and there’s going to be tones of them sooner.
Detailed information @ Origami Project
Great posts on the site. Thought I’d add a couple of comments:
WIDWIWD(What I Did was What I Wanted to DO)not the actual name:
-> FWIW, we call this “Touch Improvements”.
Hope these BIG, Real Estate Consuming, Easy to use UI(not sure though) would have the AUTO HIDE feature built in to it, otherwise it’s pointless to have a 7″ Screen and watch videos in 5″ Look at this, you know what we mean…
-> You can put the video in full screen mode by double-tapping the video or tapping the fullscreen button. In the screenshot, it’s the middle bottom in the top left set of buttons (grayed out since no media is playing).
Thanks!
–Sears