Mobile Internet Experience
Encyclopedia
Mobile Internet Experience (MIE) is a new user interface
(UI) and home grown Linux for the upcoming HP Mini 1000 netbook
, it is in many ways similar to Canonical's Ubuntu Netbook Edition. The UI has been developed on top of Ubuntu
Linux
distribution by HP specifically for the new netbook. The home screen is what the user sees when logged into the machine and on that screen the user has all the important information presented to them. On the left of the screen the users emails are shown, in the middle at the top there is an input box that acts as search box or as an input box that user can use to input URLs. Right below the input box is thumbnail images of four favorite web pages (similar to the fashion Opera web browser shows its speed dial). To the right of the screen the top is used by a media player, so you can listen to you music and the controls are presented to easily changing a song. Right below the media player is a photo viewer. The MIE also comes with a tabbed interface for accessing other bundled applications similar to Asus EeePC's custom interface for Xandros
Linux.
User interface
The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...
(UI) and home grown Linux for the upcoming HP Mini 1000 netbook
Netbook
Netbooks are a category of small, lightweight, legacy-free, and inexpensive laptop computers.At their inception in late 2007 as smaller notebooks optimized for low weight and low cost — netbooks omitted certain features , featured smaller screens and keyboards, and offered reduced computing...
, it is in many ways similar to Canonical's Ubuntu Netbook Edition. The UI has been developed on top of Ubuntu
Ubuntu (operating system)
Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...
Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
distribution by HP specifically for the new netbook. The home screen is what the user sees when logged into the machine and on that screen the user has all the important information presented to them. On the left of the screen the users emails are shown, in the middle at the top there is an input box that acts as search box or as an input box that user can use to input URLs. Right below the input box is thumbnail images of four favorite web pages (similar to the fashion Opera web browser shows its speed dial). To the right of the screen the top is used by a media player, so you can listen to you music and the controls are presented to easily changing a song. Right below the media player is a photo viewer. The MIE also comes with a tabbed interface for accessing other bundled applications similar to Asus EeePC's custom interface for Xandros
Xandros
Xandros is the name of both a line of operating systems and Xandros Corporation, the company which creates them. Xandros Desktop was a Linux distribution. The name Xandros is derived from the X Window System and the Greek island of Andros....
Linux.