Comments on: Mobinnova Beam — Windows CE Laptop Because… I Don’t Know

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:53:41 +0000

I would want one of these, but only if it were cheaper.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:34:38 +0000

With the Win CE Citrix Client and Open Office or Softmaker, these smartbooks would make a great device! Don’t know if these softwares will work.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:21:15 +0000

weeomalley,

I can understand your position. If a classroom’s IT needs consist of what you mentioned, then yes, a set attractively priced Windows CE-based devices would do. One advantage of having an embedded OS is that since it is wholly or largely in ROM, it is less susceptible to infection by viruses, Trojans. It woulnd’t be invulnerable, but at least the attacks wouldn’t be able to penetrate to the core system files of the OS.

Windows CE already supports Adobe Flash (Lite), and I think MS’s own Silverlight too, so video-rich websites shouldn’t pose a problem.

By: weeomalley

weeomalley — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:16:10 +0000

I am a teacher of high school history. Over the past 6 months I have been trying to incorporate more web 2.0 tech in my classroom. The most effective has been Google.docs. A classroom full of laptops would be idea, however our last years economic dive has shriveled most would be suitors to educational spending. Netbooks 5-6 months ago seemed the likely route, yet again the belt for use teachers was tightened further. So here I see smartbooks running Windows CE.
Here is my question. If most of the work and exploration my students are doing is all web based: Google.docs, Discovery-Streaming, You-tube, Facebook, Flicker,School Loop, Weebly and the such, would not Windows CE be sufficient?

By: Perry

Perry — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:34:48 +0000

Hmmm… Not sure I agree about CE not being suitable for larger format devices. It worked pretty well on my ancient HP Jornada 820. I could see a market for an updated version of it supporting the latest web standards on a similar sized device.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:18:07 +0000

Very good point about the carriers. I hadn’t thought about that.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:44:59 +0000

Oh, and another thing. I think cell phone carriers would love a device like this as a subsidized “netbook” precisely because it is so limited. They won’t have to worry about people installing all sorts of high-bandwidth using apps.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:38:49 +0000

Alot of these arguments could and have been made about netbooks vs. full function laptops. Call this a sub-netbook. It’s the same idea, but even more so. Portable, long battery life, instant-on, and presumabely cheap.
To succeed, this device will need to cost significantly less than a netbook. If they can sell this for $150 or less it will do well. If they can sell it for under $100 it will be very popular. If they sell it for $250 it will be DOA.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:49:13 +0000

CE in many situations in industry or business.

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:31:18 +0000

Included 3G connectivity but the connection will connect through the browser Windows CE, by email.