Inbrics’ SoIP S1 tries to make videophone converts out of us yet
We saw some incredibly cheap, ill-thought, Android-based videophones at CES this year, but this wasn’t one of them. The SoIP S1 from Inbrics is running Android, of course, but it’s under that same fine UI skin that Inbrics has coated its M1 Android slider in. The result is a finger-friendly device with nice software for making calls and sending messages — though it could really benefit from an external text-input device of some sort, and luckily there’s Bluetooth onboard to make that a possibility. There’s HDMI, Ethernet, USB and an SD slot around back, and the device is designed to sling video calls and media playback to a TV over the HDMI plug or DLNA (there’s also WiFi onboard, natch). For VoIP there’s a wireless handset embedded in the base of the unit. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to see a demo of the video calling in action, and the big hangup with most of these video calling stations is still here: there’s no mention of the big standards in video calling like Skype, Google Talk or iChat, so it’s hard to see this catching fire with people who actually video chat. Still, at least Inbrics has roughly half of the software problem solved. Check out a video walkthrough after the break.
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Inbrics’ SoIP S1 tries to make videophone converts out of us yet originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Engadget Podcast 179: CES 2010 Final Goodbye – 01.10.2010
Goodnight CES! You were cool and had a lot of great technologies this year.
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Engadget Podcast 179: CES 2010 Final Goodbye – 01.10.2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Inbrics M1 is the thinnest Android slider we’ve seen, probably everything we ever wanted
We don’t know what everybody else in the phone business has been doing lately, but Inbrics has just unveiled what looks to be the near-ultimate Android phone. The Inbrics M1 is a slider handset with a (great) 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED display, 3 megapixel camera, front-facing VGA camera, 16GB of built-in storage, microSD slot and all the other usual trimmings, but what’s particularly stunning is that the phone is not only half an inch thick, but it has a full QWERTY keyboard that’s surprisingly clicky and typable. The phone is running Android 1.5 right now, but it should be up to Android 2.0 by the time it hits the market in March. The biggest concern is the 800MHz Samsung processor, the same chip that’s in the Samsung Moment, but the interface (as demonstrated in the video after the break) is smooth as butter, and they demo’d it playing back 720p video just fine.
Inbrics actually has a lot of custom UI and software running on top of Android, but the most interesting part is what they’re doing with video calling and beaming media from handset to videophone to TV to laptop over DLNA or through an access point device that plugs into the TV over HDMI. Inbrics also has a Cover Flow-style media browser that isn’t super deep in functionality, but still puts the stock Android stuff to shame, and some rather sexy custom widgets.
The plan is apparently to get a carrier to bite and rebrand this phone in the US, so price and availability are still pretty hard to pin down, but if this phone can hit the market soon it sure could give the rest of the QWERTY Android sliders out there some body image issues.
Gallery: Inbrics M1 hands-on
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Inbrics announces Android MID, promises ‘inspirational moments’ (video)
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Inbrics announces Android MID, promises ‘inspirational moments’ (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
