Friday, February 6, 2009

HP Mini 1000 MIE unboxing and first thoughts

HP has been kind enough to send us a Mini 1000 MIE (Mobile Internet Edition) [Portal page] which is the HP Mini 1000 netbook running a custom Ubuntu interface that is targeted toward consumers that need a simple computing experience.…

Thursday, February 5, 2009

8 mobile computing devices and how I use them.

From the Nokia N82 to the Medion Akoya Mini Netbook. Its hard to imagine you can fit 6 more computing devices in the middle. Here’s the line-up of devices at UMPCPortal at the moment and in this 10 minute video…

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

10" Acer Aspire One inches closer to reality


It seems like we’ve known about the upcoming 10″ netbook from Acer for a while, but things just got a little bit more official. Netbook3G has found details about Acer’s second netbook at the FCC. Among the images are plenty of…

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Toshiba TG01 Snapdragon smartphone, MID, whatever.

Maybe 50% of people will be calling this a MID?


News is breaking about a new 4.1 inch smartphone (same screen size and res as the Nokia N810) that will be running on the Snapdragon platform from Qualcomm.


It’s another cross-over between…

Monday, February 2, 2009

UMPCs. Add WWAN, Sell more!

I have no problem agreeing with what InStat are saying in their latest report. "Embedding a wide-area wireless modem into devices addresses the frustration many users have with the coverage of Wi-Fi." For me, wireless wan connectivity is an absolute…