Yahoo News is reporting that Acer is getting ready to roll out a series of Mobile Internet Devices (MID) by the end of May. Except for saying that the devices will feature version 4.0 of Acer’s Shell User Interface and that the devices will feature 3G connectivity and be able to share data, Acer wasn’t [...]
Earlier this month we launched MIDStories.com and to celebrate we’re giving away some mobile gear. To enter to win a MID and other great prizes all you have to do is visit the giveaway page and tell us what you’d use a MID for and which one you’d choose. I’ve been using a Viliv S5 [...]
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I’ve been very pleased with my Viliv S5 so far, but it can be difficult to write anything of length with its on-screen keyboard. I installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 to see if the MID was powerful enough to turn my speech into text. I was very impressed with the results and shot this video after [...]
The news just keeps pouring out of Computex, this time coming from NVIDA who has just announced that 12 of their partners are shipping MIDs / Tablet and Netbooks with NVIDIA’s Tegra technology: NVIDIA Corporation and industry partners today unveiled 12 new high-definition mobile Internet devices (MIDs) all powered by the NVIDIA(R) Tegra(TM) processor, the [...]
We talked yesterday about the explosion in netbook and MID tailored-OSs. Part of the struggle with these tailored OSs and targeting ultra-mobile computers, like I experienced with HP’s Mini Mi 1000, was the lack of driver support + geeky type procedures for getting a WWAN modem working. A big draw for these devices is the [...]
With talk of Dell’s Mini 10V running Android CupCake, Moblin 2.0 beta being released, HP’s Mini 1000 Mi, Unbuntu‘s Netbook Remix, and Windows 7 taking users where Vista could never take them, it has never been a better time to be a mobile user. Here’s a quick run-down on my personal experiences so far. I’ve [...]
Steve ““Chippy†Paine, famous and infamous for his UMPCPortal, has put up a couple of posts on the Intel Software Network about his experiences at SXSW carrying and evangelizing a range of mobile devices. The first post talks about what gear he carried (he had quite a range of devices available to him) but the [...]
Looks like the South by Southwest conference (SXSW) is ready to kick off this weekend and Steve ““Chippy†Paine and Jeff (would that be Mr.. Moriarty?) from Intel are showing off a range of MIDs and UMPCs that Jeff brought along. Steve calls it a ““disgusting array of MIDs†in terms of numbers. Check out [...]
Chris Davies of SlashGear got to go hands on with the UMID M1 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and has filed a good report. This tiny device impressed Chris, but he mentions concerns about the tiny keyboard, which only makes sense to me given the size of the ““in-your-pocket†device. Chris has posted [...]
Well, I got my first hands on with a MID today – the Aigo 8880. Acording to the rep, they are working on portrait rotation.
Intel has a huge range of Netbooks and MIDs on display, many of the MIDs under glass. We’ll be talking with Intel soon, and you can bet we’ll be asking when the MIDs will come out of protective species status and we’ll start to see OEMs begin shipping these things. A number of the MID [...]
The end of the year brings scores of predictions and posts, columns, and reports on what we’ll see in the next year. We each do predictions here at GBM. I’m gearing up for my 2009 predictions, but first here’s a look back at my 2008 predictions to see how much of a predictor I really [...]
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