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Thursday, May 01, 2008

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Pocketables and Origami Experience 2.0

- Warner Crocker

I may be wrong on this, but I think the HTC Shift is the only UMPC currently shipping with the new Origami Experience 2.0. I’ve had a chance to get my hands on a pre-release copy and will be reporting in soon. OE 2.0 will be made available in the future for public download.

But in the meantime if you want to know a bit more about OE 2.0 you might want to check out Jenn’s post on Pocketables. She’s inserted some pictures in her post that lays out the 10 page mini-manual that comes with the HTC Shift. 

Htc_shift_oe2_on2

Intriguingly, after walking through the manual, she closes her post with this comment:

So that's Origami Experience 2.0. It's a nice finger-friendly interface, to be sure, but I never use it. The Shift's 7-inch screen makes navigating Vista easy (no need for Origami Central then) and Origami Now essentially duplicates the function of SnapVUE, which doesn't rely on Vista and has stellar battery life (about 2 days). If it had been an option on my Shift, I wouldn't have chosen it. But that's just me.

Hat tip to jkOnTheRun


5/1/2008 11:33 AM MST  

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Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:39:43 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
after using the early bits and use the pre-release, I agree with Jenn - i just don't see a place where I would ever use OE 2.0, whether on a Tablet PC or a UMPC. The navigation is difficult: too many starbursts that look alike, but do different things, there is no clear way to exit the darn things, and I have yet to see a clear compelling reason to keep it open.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Microsoft should have tapped the Media Center enhancement for Origami. Media Center in Vista is a much more compelling solution than OE 2.0.

I installed OE 2.0 yesterday, played with it, then uninstalled it. I don't think I'll miss it.
Rob
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