Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0

In the next couple weeks, I'll be doing a 4 part series on the Origami Experience 2.0 which was announced at CES this year. The Origami Experience software is a "pack" of applications designed specifically for the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) running Windows Vista.

The Origami Experience 2.0 software comes with 3 applications that do specific tasks on the UMPC. I'll give a quick overview of these applications in which I'll go into greater detail in my 4 part series of posts about the Origami Experience 2.0.

Origami Central:



Origami Central provides quick access to your Media Library on your UMPC. That means your music, photos and videos. Origami Central lets you play your music, watch your videos and watch photo slideshows. On top of letting you access your media, it also gives you quick access to favorite programs on your UMPC like Microsoft Office OneNote 2007. In the Origami Experience 2.0 - Origami Central comes with a brand new browsing experience. You can now browse the web using Origami Central is full-fidelity web browsing - 100% compatible with IE7. That means you can browse sites that use Flash and other ActiveX controls. It also comes with a RSS feed reader also new to this release.

Origami Now:



Origami Now is a brand new application for the UMPC with the release of Origami Experience 2.0. It is designed to bring you information useful to you very quickly without much interaction. It does this by giving you the ability to customize "tiles". You can navigate between these tiles and their information. What kind of information can be in the tiles? You can configure tiles for weather, email, RSS and more. 

Origami Picture Password:
You can use Origami Picture Password to login to your UMPC.

I'm using the Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC to run the Origami Experience 2.0 on (exact model number and specs here). It works wonderfully for me.

So I've broken up my 4 part series on the Origami Experience 2.0 software into the following parts:

Origami Experience2.0 Part 1: Web Browsing
Origami Experience 2.0 Part 2: RSS
Origami Experience 2.0 Part 3: Media
Origami Experience 2.0 Part 4: Origami Now

Expect part 1 soon!

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Comments

  1. vista56rocks
    Posted on: April 29, 2008 at 7:10PM  

    While, I don't hate the Oragami experience. It is nice. Several of the Ultra Mobile PC's out there are not powerful enough to use the full capabilities of Vista and this. I've used a Samsung UMPC.

  2. Brandon LeBlanc
    Microsoft
    Posted on: April 29, 2008 at 7:23PM  

    jclopez, the Origami Experience is designed specifically for the UMPC in that it creates a experience based off the screen resolution and small form-factor for the UMPC. Many of the features the Origami Experience has also exists on Tablet PCs. If you have a Tablet PC that has touch capabilities you should be able to do some interesting things. The Origami Experience software is designed so that UMPC users can stay in the Origami Experience software for a good experience. Tablet PC users mostly want the full-on Windows experience. I hear your feedback tho and am sending it to the Origami Experience folks.

    vista56rocks, I am running a low-end Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC and this software works quite well. The Origami Experience 2.0 software is designed for most of the new UMPC devices on the market today.

    Stay tuned as I have Part 1 of my 4 part Origami Experience 2.0 series of blog posts going up real soon!

    - Brandon

  3. delsolman
    Posted on: April 30, 2008 at 3:13AM  

    I believe tablets with 11" or less screens with origami experience.   Most mainstream 12" tablets probably don't need everything.  but i believe the picture password is a neat tool that all tablets can benefits.  

  4. kenlefeb
    Posted on: May 31, 2008 at 11:14AM  

    Brandon, I think it is important that the Origami team realize that what they are building is NOT simply a "work-around" for the constraints of a small screen, but that it is a platform for a new paradigm of working with the computer. That is why Origami could be such a big hit with the Tablet PC user.

    The mainstream Tablet PC owner, who really just uses their tablet as a notebook that can swivel its screen isn't who I'm talking about, of course. But, those of us who prefer slate mode, and have become so passionate about the "organic" input modes of ink and touch, would absolutely love a desktop paradigm that was designed, from the ground up, for natural input methods. That is what Origami really is.

    I know that you can only focus on a finite scope of features, so I'm not suggesting the Origami development team preprioritize their focus... just stop excluding the Tablet PC, and let us deal with whatever quirks might exist because you assumed we have small screens. :)

    The last time I tried Origami 1.0, the setup program detected that I'm not a UMPC and refused to install. Just remove that check and let me try it, please. If you want to check for touch or ink, that's fine... even tell me that since I'm not on a UMPC you're not going to be interested in my feedback on problems, if you want... that's fine. You can easily make it clear that you're not targeting, nor supporting Tablet PCs, without prohibiting us from even trying to use it. :)

    Whatever team is responsible for the Tablet PC features in Windows would do well to learn from the ideas coming out of the Origami team, I believe.

    Anyway, enough of my spouting... Thanks for your blog, Brandon. It is really cool that you actually read the comments and participate in the conversation! :)

  5. mdjkim
    Posted on: June 04, 2008 at 10:37AM  

    Will there be a similar version if Windows Mobile 7 gets installed on UMPCs?

    JK

    http://mdjosephkim.blogspot.com/

  6. jclopez
    Posted on: June 16, 2008 at 11:43PM  

    Hey Brandom and kenlefeb,

    Today was released the Origami Experience 2.0, I just downloaded and installed in my Tablet HP Tx2120us :) wow..... thanks Brandom and the team for listening us.

    As other comments on differents blogs, I also notice it is a slow application, despite my tablet has 4GB RAM. Origami also improve the touch settings, probably this is the best part for 12" screens with passive digitizers.

    the last comment, the battery and the wi-fi icons don't work, it usually hung the application.

    Still testing ....

    kenlefeb thank you for your support in this thread.

    Cheers my friends,

    Carlos

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  1. Posted by: Techy News » Taking a Closer Look at the Origami Experience 2.0 on April 26, 2008 at 1:29AM
  2. Posted by: GottaBeMobile on April 29, 2008 at 7:59AM
  3. Posted by: Origami Team Blog on April 30, 2008 at 1:04PM

    Hello everyone! Origami Experience 2 offers "touch-first" experiences for playing media, browsing the...

  4. Posted by: Pocket.Info - Mobile 2.0 on April 30, 2008 at 2:11PM

    Hello everyone! Origami Experience 2 offers "touch-first" experiences for playing media, browsing

  5. Posted by: Brandon LeBlanc - A Self-Proclaimed Windows Geek on May 08, 2008 at 6:27AM

    Posting here has been light and for that I apologize. I've been investing quite a bit of my energy developing content for the Windows Experience Blog . My passion is talking about Windows and the interesting/cool experiences you can have with Windows

  6. Posted by: The Windows Experience Blog on May 21, 2008 at 12:26AM

    Two weeks ago, I talked about the new Web Browsing capabilities in Origami Central , one of the three

  7. Posted by: Mobile PC (Tablet PC) - Thoughts and Ideas on May 21, 2008 at 11:14AM

    Brandon LeBlanc has just published part 2 of 4 of his preview of the Origami Experience 2.0 . In this

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