‘In Other News…’ October 3rd

Here’s the weekly rundown of items that we posted to the middle column on UMPCPortal, our ‘Other News’ section. It’s all good UMPC and MID-related stuff that, in most cases, we didn’t write about as a main news item.

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Archos 5 Internet Tablet (Android) Unboxing Video.

Here's the Archos 5 Internet Tablet (Android edition) Unboxing video. So far i'm really liking what I see. No flash support in the browser but YouTube plays vie the built-in video player in excelent quality and the general browsing speed is really impressing. I threw a load of videos at it and they were all recognised (some need an HD plugin) and there's a bunch of exciting apps in the app store. It's early days but I'm feeling really positive about this. If only it had 3G! Related posts:

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Live session announcement. Archos and Sharp: Our first ARM-based MID session. Friday. 2100 CEST.

On Friday evening at 1900 GMT (check your timezone here) JKK and I will be LIVE again. For the first time ever it’s an ARM-only show featuring Cortex CPUs from Freescale and Texas Instruments. The Sharp Netwalker will be there and, if Mr DHL does his job, the Archos Internet Tablet (Android version) too. Related posts:

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4.3” is not too large for a Smartphone (say WM and UMPC fans.)

A few months ago I took hold of the 4.1” Toshiba TG01 and said no! It’s too big for my pocket.

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M&M&Ms What IDF09 meant for Mobility.

I took MIDMoves to the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last week with a focus on the three M’s of MIDs, Moblin and Moorestown. IDF is the highlight of my mobile computing year and I was hoping to see…

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