Tuesday, March 31, 2009

New Wibrain M1 UMPC becoming a reality

Jkk has pointed out that according to Aving, the new Wibrain M1 UMPC has left the prototype stage and will now get built for production. The new device is a handheld slider form-factor with a thumb keyboard. It’s great to see…

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Monday, March 30, 2009

iRiver D50N Second Peek.

We reported on the D50N back in Jan (and got the Model number wrong!) but following a tip-off from a reader (thanks Mike) I’ve been taking a closer look at the specs. The images and specs certainly don’t hint towards an…

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Long term hardware impressions – Sony VAIO P

The Sony VAIO P is an impressively small unit that manages to pack some relatively powerful hardware into a small, envelope shaped footprint. Though it may not be practically pocketable like Sony wanted us to think, it is extremely light…

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

UMID M1 gets refined before international release

Jenn from Pocketables.net has some interesting new info about the UMID M1 [Portal page]. Chippy has had some good hands on time with the UMID M1 and always seems to note that he wishes the build quality was a bit better. Luckily…

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Hilton Locke joins Gottabemobile team

Hilton Locke, a tremendously enthusiastic and knowledgeable Tablet enthusiast, has joined the Gottabemobile team. This is great to hear.


In a former life Hilton worked at Microsoft as a Design Engineer in Test, but he wasn’t hidden away in some closet full of equipment. No. He wrote a blog, appeared at conferences demoing Tablets, and more. GBM is a great fit for him and his energy.


I can’t wait to hear his insights over the coming months.



Thursday, March 26, 2009

Samsung’s SWD-M100 Mondi MID

The SWD-M100 Mondi is the WiMax device that was spotted at MWC in Feb. There in Barcelona it was seen running Windows Mobile 6.1 which didn’t really get too many people excited. It looks like we might find out more soon…

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

In case you’ve never seen someone with a Tablet PC:

Robert Scoble posted today a photo of their new family pediatrician. Guess what? She’s holding a Tablet PC. In case you’ve never seen a Tablet PC in the wild, here’s the photo to prove they’re out there.


Interestingly over the last couple years that I’ve been going through my cancer treatments, I’ve only seen a handful of Tablets. Most of the staff in the various places is still desktop wired and running Windows XP or older. The doctors have been the ones with Tablets, although quite a few of the staff were eager to have one themselves.



Tuesday, March 24, 2009

ASUS Eee Keyboard PC (Video)

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Video overview of the new Samsung N110 netbook

Laptopmag.com seems to get their hands on netbooks before anyone else these days. Not only did they get a Samsung NC110 before the unit was announced, but they had enough time to review the whole thing and record a nice…

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Surprising Power of Neighbor's Advice

"When we want to know our emotional futures, it is difficult to believe that
a neighbour's experience can provide greater insight than our own best
guess," Professor D.T. Gilbert and his colleagues said.


When asked why people make this systematic error of not believing a neighbor's avice, Gilbert said, "My best guess," he told us, "is that we overestimate our uniqueness and thus don't think that other people's experiences can tell us much about our own."


Want to know how you'll feel ? Ask a friend


I wonder if people have to learn how to overestimate their uniqueness, and how this judgment pattern affects learning rates in schools?

Saturday, March 21, 2009

UMPC Link-up via Twitter g_rouping.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Presto pre-OS released in beta, retail version on April 13th

There are several upcoming “pre-OS” solutions, but it looks like Presto will be one of the first out the door. The concept of a pre-OS is to be able to launch into a very quickly booting environment that offers key parts…

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Intel SMID accelerator aims to boost graphical performance of mobile devices

SlashGear is reporting that Intel is working on a version of something called an SIMD accelerator that will help increase graphical performance on future mobile devices. There isn’t too much to go on with the small amount of information that Intel…

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

More info on the SmartQ 5 MID

We brought you some preliminary details about the SmartQ 5 MID a little while back, but didn’t have much to go on. Today we’ve found that the SmartQ 5 is indeed going to have a $132 price tag, though it may…

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Will Apple announce an Apple tablet tomorrow?

I shouldn’t point to today’s Apple tablet rumors, but I can’t help myself. These rumors do seem perennial don’t they?


This time around the tablet rumor is being fed by the tea leave thinking of Seth Weintraub from Comptuerworld Blogs. He’s thinking that Apple will announce a Tablet tomorrow in part because, well, there have been other rumors that if you put them together, you might begin to believe that Apple is making a Tablet. The general thinking is that Apple is working on something and some people have rumored that Apple is working with 10″ touch panels. Put this together and you have a Tablet rumor.


Despite the thin basis of the rumor, I appreciate where Seth is coming from. I’d like to see an Apple Tablet too. I’m thinking in terms of something bigger than an iPod Touch but smaller than a notebook. A 10″ Netbook size makes sense, but hey I’m not an Apple engineer. So who knows what Apple might come up with.


I do think though that any Apple Tablet would have a unique Apple twist to it. I’m thinking in terms of a multi-use device that doubles as an eReader. If Apple builds out its iTunes content with eBooks or eNewspapers, then a companion device like this could be very interesting in the consumer and education market.


Am I going to hold my breath once again? Nope. I truly expect something smaller, something more incremental, such as copy-paste and the like for the iPhone. However, some day I bet Apple will catch up with all of the Tablet thinking. Some day.



Monday, March 16, 2009

Mystery of the Lenovo VAIO P competitor: solved

It is pretty amazing how well some people can draw up concepts for the future. Engadget is reporting that the mysterious VAIO P-like computer, that we showed you a few days ago, is in fact a two year old concept design.


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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Benchmarks for the HP Mini 1000

I was able to get XP on the Mini 1000 [Portal page][review] and I did a quick Crystal Mark benchmark. This is a fully updated SP3 machine. Here are the results:


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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Chippy has MID fever at SXSW

As you probably know, Chippy made the jump across the big puddle to attend this years South by Southwest in Austin Texas. SXSW started as a music festival many years ago, but has since evolved into much, much more. A good…

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Friday, March 13, 2009

3G gets squeezed into the VAIO UX UMPC

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

iBluetooth adds some real BT capabilities to the iPhone, full stack planned

Speaking of the iPhone and Bluetooth stereo today, it looks like an interesting application has been released through Cydia today. Quickly: Cydia is the application that allows you to install unofficial third part applications after your iPhone or iPod Touch…

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Is Lenovo working on a VAIO P-esque ultra portable?


Engadget Chinese got shots from a ‘trusted source’ of a Lenovo ultra portable that seems awfully familiar to the shape of the VAIO P [Product page]. Additionally it looks to be styled after the special ThinkPad Reserve Edition notebook. I’m…

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

MIDMoves at SXSW. More MID hands-on.

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Monday, March 9, 2009

Viliv S5 Unboxing. Live session to follow.

It looks even better now than it did at CeBIT last week and as an extra bonus, there was a great suprise for me when I unboxed it. The Viliv S5 I received today came not only with a beautiful leather…

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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Live MeetMobility Videocast. Podcast, Viliv S5, Vaio P overview and Q&A. monday, 2000 CET.


 


The Viliv S5 that has been sent for review and MIDMoves SXSW duties has just cleared customs in Germany which means it’s highly likely that we’ll not only do a live MeetMobility CeBIT roundup podcast tomorrow but also a live testing and Q&A session…

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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Lluon Mobbit PS400 UMPC. Working model Hands-On

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Friday, March 6, 2009

Sony VAIO P unboxing and first thoughts

Today we got a VAIO P [Portal page] review unit from our friends at Dynamism. This is the high end model running a 1.86GHz Atom Z540 CPU, 2GB of RAM, Windows Vista, and a spacious 128GB of SSD storage. Have…

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Gigabyte M10xx series Netbook Images. M1024 Video

We spent some time with Gigabyte this morning and although there were no UMPCs or MIDs (Gigabyte have removed the M528 from the European/US markets) we took time to check out the details of the new M10xx Netbooks. They look…

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Eee PC 1008HA. A few Specs from the press Conference.

There wasn’t much in the press conference about the Seashell and there’s not much in the press release either.



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Monday, March 2, 2009

ASUS T91Go hands-on Video

We hit the ASUS booth today and WOW! About 30% of it was dedicated to the Eee PC brand. From keyboard PCs to Skype phones and every variation of netbook in between. Quite a sight to see.


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Sunday, March 1, 2009

MeetMobility (and Podcast 25)

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