Tegra is a huge strength for tiny devices like the upcoming Zune HD, but in a full-sized netbook, it'll have a hard time running media or multitasking. OS is a problem too—does anybody actually like Windows CE? Maybe a Linux distro (or Chrome OS) could work, but even that's kind of pushing it. Regardless, it's rumored to have a September release date, though of course we hardly know anything about the product and don't have any particular reason to trust that date. Come on, Nvidia, just stick the Tegra in a bunch of smartphones where it belongs! [Semi-Accurate News via Crunchgear]

What you're watching is, admittedly, virtualization. The MVP hypervisor is a small (20KB) "bare metal" virtual machine which runs beneath the phone's OS(es). What this effectively does is create an identical platform on each and every device it's installed on, allowing OSes to be installed like apps (as in desktop virtualization, they're called "appliances"). Since it's the virtual machine that interfaces with the device's hardware, you can pretty much run any OS without worrying too about driver compatibility, or, as shown above, even run multiple OSes at the same time.

What's especially surprising about this is how well it seems to work. Windows CE, which isn't even technically a mobile OS,(yes, it is, but it's not anything someone could use for a phone) runs well, and Android's 3D spinning globe runs about as quickly as you'd expect it to on the N800's hardware. Though the N800 isn't a phone, the rep in the video makes it very clear that MVP is headed for smartphones, and so it should.

VMWare says they're in talks with manufacturers, who would have to include the hypervisor in their handsets for this to be possible. Problem is, I'm not sure what exactly would motivate a company to pay to license this tech in their handsets. Hardware virtualization, parallel mobile OSes and hypervisors are all a little esoteric for mass marketing, and I'm not sure that "John at Gizmodo totally has a boner for this" will be enough to push HTC over the edge. [ITPro via WindowsForDevices]

A Swedish blogger met up with Gizmondo founder Carl Freer to discuss the future of the scandal-ridden handheld maker. Freer admitted that the worldwide economic implosion forced most of his investors to drop out, and he's had to totally redesign the product. He plans to launch the new Gizmondo as an OEMed pocket PC, a bit like an HTC smartphone with gaming guts. It'll be focusing on downloadable games and other content, like Apple's App Store, and will come in two versions: Windows CE and Android. Since it'll be based on a smartphone design, it will also be a phone, but it won't come cheap.

By now we all know to take everything anybody associated with Gizmondo says with a giant mountain of salt. It's anybody's guess as to whether this new Gizmondo will ever go into production. But this is one enormously entertaining company, so I hope they stick around at least until the next scandal. [The Nordic Link via Engadget]

Two editions will come to production; a desktop version and a "Damn. I'm busted," pocket version. Though it was working fine with a Windows CE based PDA, the boss at the camp was promising an iPhone solution to be next on the to-do list. Even the extremely over-exaggerated range of 100 meters cannot detract from the fact that this could be a neat little device. We're holding out for our review unit [geneieSys Technologies]

Yes, the beauty of the Nani is deceiving. The onboard WiFi capabilities will be handicapped by a sub-par web browser and multimedia capabilities will be bogged down by Windows Media Player 10. While the dual cameras are a unique addition (VGA in front, SVGA in back), the Nani boasts a simple Micro SD card slot in lieu of a more robust storage option like a hard drive. While it certainly won't challenge anything else out there for dominance of the phone/PMP market, the Sophia Nani is proof of the new design direction cell phones are heading in. [PMP Today]

I like Cowon's stuff and how they try to compete with the iPod without getting all up in my grill about it. I look forward to fondling its goods next week. – Nicholas Deleon

2007 CES PMP (in Korean) [CDPkorea.com via dapreview.net]

Additionally, there's FM radio, an eBook reader, VoIP capability, GPS, UMS, video and audio recording through its input ports, WiFi, and Bluetooth. Seriously, it just sounds like the engineers had a field day adding technologies to this—who here can say "feature bloat?" The only thing this doesn't have is a cellphone and Windows Mobile 5.0, which is probably coming in the next version. – Jason Chen

Wizxer [via Dapreview]

God forbid you be at the gas station using a Windows CE-based pump, but if you trust it, go for it. Company Dresser Wayne is manufacturing a gas pump dubbed the Ovation(R) iX dispenser. The idea is that the pump will be connected to the internet, and in states where you don't have full-service, you will be able to pay and order coffee from the pump, check news, weather, stocks, and even run express diagnostics on your car to make sure you don't need an oil change or anything similar. You'll even be able to print coupons out apparently for later use in your Quik-E-Mart. Just don't come crying to us when CE gets a FATAL ERROR and makes your gas tank explode.

A Windows CE Based Gas Pump, The Ovation(R) iX Dispenser [Oh! Gizmo]