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UMID mbook Pink ready for women’s Christmas lists

ctitanic — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:37:00 +0000

Dynamism is a company that clearly understands that women also love computers. And a proof of it is that they have just released the UMID mbook in pink. An UMPC with the perfect size for the purse of our other half.

Because it runs Windows XP on an Intel® Atom™ processor, you can enjoy unbridled web browsing, movies, music, & games — or ultramobile video Skype calling with someone special.

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Eston MID-05 MID and N97 coming soon

ctitanic — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:36:30 +0000

It seems that the MID concept finally is picking some steam because lately there are a bunch of new devices being released. This time we have two new MID coming from a company called Eston, the MID 05 and the N97 both using Android thou the first one could be loaded with Windows CE too.

The company has sliced off the hardware keyboard from their MID-02 and produced the touchscreen-only MID-05, a 5-inch handheld running either Android or Windows CE. If your fingers are too chubby for that, Eston also have the N97 MID, with a larger 7-inch touchscreen and integrated 3G.

Via – SlashGear

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Cowon Producing a MID

Zealot — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:09:46 +0000

We are running on Bluetooth fumes on this one, but it appears that Korean PMP makers Cowon will be putting out a MID (Mobile Internet Device) called the W2. No information at all yet really, but thanks to this listing at bluetooth.org we know it will be a MID running Bluetooth 2.0 and feature an Atom processor. The design descriptions lists “Intel ATOM 4.8” which I think means the device will have a 4.8 inch screen like MIDS such as the Viliv S5 and Aigo.

I love Cowen’s products, having had good experiences with the D2+ and the Q5W. It will be interesting to see what OS this MID would run, since most larger Cowon products have run Windows CE embedded. Also, considering Cowen’s expertise with video and sound quality (their JetAudio system is the finest mobile audio system I have ever used) this could be one very impressive media-oriented MID…or it could just be bluetooth-scented vapourwear. Stay tuned.

(Source: GMP3)

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Windows Mobile 6.5? SUPER-SIZE ME!

Zealot — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:18:32 +0000

Came across this interesting looking mutant in my Possibly Posts file today, as I was whiling away a Sunday, struggling mightily not to post anything more about Ebooks until sundown (must…HOLD….ONNNN)

This is C-motech’s Mangrove 7-inch tablet, a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon based MID (Mobile Internet Device)/Smartphone/Thing that against all odds, common decency or human understanding is running Windows Mobile 6.5. All that extra chassis space means that the Mangrove can run WiFi, 3G and WiMAX (jeepers, does WinMO even SUPPORT WiMax?). The display switches from portrait to landscape modes and the unit also features two standard USB ports and a microSD card slot.

No word on when (if?) it will be available, or how much the Mangrove would cost…but it sure makes WinMo 6.5 web browsing look nicer (if a bit upside down) doesn’t it? I admit it….I would buy one, just to show it off to people and do my Crocodile Dundee impression.

“Ya call that a smartphone? THIS is a smartphone….”

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All I can say is WOW! 2 thumbs up…

Chris Leckness — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:40:20 +0000

1st off, Zealot already posted some info on this Dell MID, but I found a video over at UMPC Portal that puts me in a delighted, “kid waiting for Christmas” state. Two thumbs up here… 1 thumb for Dell doing something I like again. (boy I miss the Aximsite days) The other thumb up is for it being a hot looking device. Thanks for the eye candy Chippy. It’s got a multi touch interface, a weak sounding battery, runs Android 2, and is about the perfect size for a MID. This could be my couch communicator for sure!

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Dell MID Running Android Leaked

Zealot — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:39:05 +0000

Vietnamese site Tinhte has gotten a hold of what seems to be an engineering prototype of the next stage in Dell’s Android strategy…a very sharp looking MID called the Streak. What little can be gleaned techspecs-wise from the video and Tinhte is that the device will sport…

Android 2.0 Donut
WiFi (no word on which versions, but 802.11b/g/n would be cool)
Bluetooth
3G WWAN
An 800 by 480 touch screen
5-megapixel camera
MicroSD card slot
A 1,300mAh battery.

Check out a nice comparison shot and a very tempting video after the jump.

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“The entire MID market is nearly all smartphones."

Zealot — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:46:56 +0000

…or so says Dr Robert Castellano, consultant and president of The Information Network following Intel’s Atom presentation at the recent 2009 Intel Developers Forum.

At IDF 2009 Intel President (and previous Atom detractor) Paul Otellini explained that the Atom chipset was slowly metamorphosing into an SoC (System on a Chip, that is, a single chip CPU) specifically to transform from a netbook/notebook chip to a MID (Mobile Internet Device) chip. In that vein, he anticipated "a future where Intel ships more SoC cores than standard PC cores."

Otellini claimed that Intel has more than a dozen SoCs in development using as Atoms which utilize a common set of libraries and interconnect models. He has come a long way from last year, when he dismissed Atom chips as simply toys that would never compete on Intel’s bottom line with Celeron and Centrino chips….but there are those who question his vision of Atom chips spearheading a new sets of MIDs.

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Benq S6 naked

ctitanic — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:02:28 +0000

We all like to see what’s inside of our devices, lets face it. But here is the thing, dissamsabling them is easy, what’s hard is putting them back to how they were before.

The above picture of the Benq S6 MID was shot by a young lady that loves to strip down her devices. And let me tell you, this picture is the most decent one. Check the rest here.

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Samsung Mondi Pulls Down Award at 4G World

Chris Leckness — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:34:25 +0000

xchange magazine today presented Samsung Mobile, the #1 mobile phone provider in the U.S, with the Best of 4G Award for the Samsung Mondi in the Mobile Internet Device category. The awards recognize leaders in the development, deployment and service of next-generation telecom technology. Nominations were open to all parties involved in 4G technology, products and services, and selected by a panel of 4G subject matter experts.

This is a hot little hybrid device. It’s not really a phone, but it’s really not a MID either. It does run Windows Mobile though. I do wonder though, what competition did it have? It’s the only WiMax MID around right now, right? Anyhow, it’s sweet looking either way. I had a chance to place with one back at CTIA in March and it was pretty slick. Jack posted about it right here as well.

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Android Tablet

ctitanic — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:47:55 +0000

Here is a video about an Android Tablet that is being shown in the IFA 2009 Event made by Smit.

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4.8” 800×480, Built-In GPS and 8 GB Flash Memory.

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Sharp Channels PDAs via The Wayback Machine.

Zealot — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:46:48 +0000

Sharp just announced it’s new “Netwalker” line of Ultra Teeny Tiny Internet Device with No Market to Speak Of (UTTIDWNMTSO), starting with the PC71, a 6.3 x 4.2 x .9-inch device featuring a five inch touchscreen, Ubuntu OS and glorified thumbboard. It is running an ARM Cortex-A8 based processor, with 4GB of storage and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi (but no 3G)….and makes me feel more than a little like Mr. Peabody. I am SURE I have seen this device before in my travels.

Now while I think the device IS sort of cool looking, admit it Sharp, it’s a PDA.

You doubt me, well check my proof after the jump…

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Nokia May Be Getting MIDs Right

Zealot — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:31:01 +0000

As underwhelmed as I was by Nokia’s recent Booklet announcement, I am just as deeply impressed by the next product that Nokia is pulling out of it’s bag of tricks. There have been leaks all over the place for about a month that Nokia was on the verge of releasing a phone of some kind that dropped Symbian in favor of the open source OS they have been flirting with for ages, Maemo. Well, now it is official, but it isn’t a phone, it is a 3G MID with phone capabilities, a 3.5 inch touchscreen and slide out QWERTY called the N900 and it looks to be made of win.

Here are some tidbits from Nokia’s press release…

The Nokia N900 packs a powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor, up to 1GB of application memory and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration. The result is PC-like multitasking, allowing many applications to run simultaneously. Switching between applications is simple, as all running content is constantly available through the dashboard. The panoramic homescreen can be fully personalized with favorite shortcuts, widgets and applications.

To make web browsing more enjoyable, the Nokia N900 features a high-resolution WVGA touch screen and fast internet connectivity with 10/2 HSPA and WLAN. Thanks to the browser powered by Mozilla technology, websites look the way they would on any computer. Online videos and interactive applications are vivid with full Adobe Flash(TM) 9.4 support. Maemo software updates happen automatically over the internet.

On top of that, the N900 includes integrated Bluetooth 2.1, FM transmitter and GPS; a full stack of standard phone features including 3-way conference calling, Microsoft Exchange support as well as the ability to handle up to 10 email accounts; 32GB of internal storage, microSD expansion and 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens.

In a word…WANT.

Considering all the people who were saying that these Maemo rumors meant that Nokia was going to deep six S60 (as ludicrous as that sounded when it is the most used mobile OS worldwide by a wide margin), Nokia took great pains to make a clear division between Symbia and Maemo by having Jonathan Arber, a Senior Research Analyst and IDC, say the following…

Just as Nokia continues to expand and diversify its device portfolio, so it is deploying multiple platforms to allow it to serve different purposes and address different markets. While we have seen continued growth in Symbian as a smartphone platform, Maemo enables Nokia to deliver new mobile computing experiences based on open-source technology that has strong ties with desktop platforms.

OK, that didn’t convince me any more than Google’s “Android walks sideways and Chrome OS will walk straight” argument. I have no doubt that Nokia isn;t going to let all the work they have put into Symbian go to waste, but personally I feel that we will begin seeing Maemo on smartphones in much the way Microsoft will be using WinMo 7…a two track attack with S60 on mid level smartphones and Maemo on the iPhone Killers.

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The Giant iPod Netbook Thingie Cometh?

Zealot — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:48:56 +0000

Last week I suggested that based on all the hints from Taiwan screen vendors and others, we could be seeing the long awaited Apple “Giant iPod Netbook Thingie” (I will be copywriting that term later tonight, so hands off Steve Jobs) in September. Well, the rumor now says October, and this one has long legs, being reported far and wide across the internet due to some Chinese language reports in the trade papers. The key bit, translated by MacRumors, goes as follows…

Taiwan’s high-tech supply chain companies said Apple will debut its first Netbook in October; Apple will pose itself to tackle the Christmas shopping season. Three (Taiwanese) corporations–Foxconn, Wintek, Dynapack–have received direct orders from Apple. (Wintek will be producing touch screens and providing relevant technologies for Apple.) In addition, some supply chain companies have privately confirmed deals related to Netbooks.

In addition it says that the device’s screen will be 9.7 inches diagonally, a size chosen based on the success of the Kindle, and will cost around 800 dollars.

No idea yet if this is more wishful thinking on the part of iPhone fanboys or someone in Taipei has drunk a little too much of the Apple koolaid, but I admit this smells like the truth to me. Most of the net would agree, as lots of blogs and websites are still saying we should take the rumors with a grain of salt but are treating it like the real McCoy.

If this does happen, expect the Giant iPod Netbook Thingie to do to the MID/UMPC market (what there is of it) as well as the Ebook reader community what the iPhone did to the smartphone industry…that is, to change all the rules overnight. Due to the price and the apparent lack of a physical keyboard (unless there is a slider that hasn’t been tipped yet) I don’t think it will have much of an effect on the actual Netbook market, where low price and notebook form factor are very important…but as for everybody else, watch out.

I sort of hate to say this, but this could be the sort of device that pushes the mobile internet to the next level. Seriously, I am not a rabid Apple fan by and large, but if this device really DOES come out and is anything like the rumors I’ll buy one, no question. It just looks that dead sexy.

(Mockup Graphic: A Gizmodo Classic from two rumors ago)

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LonMID M100 MID, a phone with an Intel Atom

ctitanic — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:07:26 +0000

Yes, it’s a phone and it’s a MID using an Intel Atom processor.

The specs haven’t changed since the last time, though some of the ports/interfaces may have. Here’s a quick rundown:

800MHz Intel Atom Z500 processor

512MB DDR2 RAM (up to 1GB)

4GB SSD

Midinux operating system

4.8" primary touchscreen (800 x 480), 2.4" secondary display (320 x 240)

Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, 802.11b/g

Webcam

I/O: SIM card slot, microSD card slot, USB 2.0, miniUSB, headphone jack, microphone

Since Microsoft pushed the UMPC concept into the market we keep seeing new devices some really smaller some not but one thing is for sure, the market exist and it’s healthy.

Via Pocketeable: LonMID M100 MID phone gets official

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Smart Devices Q7 video review

ctitanic — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:57:05 +0000

The Smart Q7 is one of the best design I have seen in a MID. And today UMPC Portal has released a review of this device very detailed for those who are thinking to buy in the near future.

I had very well-managed expectations for this sub $200 tablet based on ARM architecture and a Linux operating system from a Chinese company and sold through what we thought was a very strange reseller in China. I’ve unboxed the device and I’m feeling quite pleased. Keep your own expectations in check though because this isn’t a UMPC. Think of it as an internet connected gadget, and you’re on the right track.

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