Comments on: Gigabyte M528 pricing update. Not a real MID yet.

By: ecsk2

ecsk2 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:58:37 +0000

Anyone (else) tempted to (or already has) get the Aigo P8860?

I’d just want to get a “hands on” experience with on of these.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:38:57 +0000

Not sure that person knows much!

The M528 is confirmed as a Euro launch. They always stated that’s where it’s first market was and Expansys have already had a test version.

Both Expansys and Mobilx are taking pre-orders, so they are clearly expecting a Euro launch too.

So, hopefully they are wrong on the second point too…

By: pepilo

pepilo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:31:06 +0000

I’ve mailed to gigabyte and here is the answer:

Dear Sir,

Thank you interesting in GIGABYTE products.
I am sorry but we have no plan to launch M528 in European market at a moment and all bundle function like 3G declare internal not yet

GIGABYTE-Team

By: chiuyan

chiuyan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:05:47 +0000

Have anybody asked Expansys whether M528 included the HSDPA module? Or are they still waiting the confirmation from Gigabyte?

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:32:08 +0000

Expansys have changed the description again. It now says:

HSDPA available through mini card module (TBC)

Fingers crossed. It maybe be included after all!

By: José Melo

José Melo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:02:48 +0000

Tegatech (Resselers) sell it §999 USD but with 8Gb SSD (not only 4Gb), I think it’s not a mistake.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:51:31 +0000

http://www.mobilx.hu/gigabyte-m528-mid.html

The Mobilx price is a lot higher than Expansys. However their description still includes the HSDPA module.

I have emailed them to see if they can confirm it does include HSDPA….

By: José Melo

José Melo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:45:20 +0000

Gigabyte MID M528 MobilX already priced at 655 Euros inc. VAT.

By: MIDmods

MIDmods — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:12:15 +0000

Posted this also here:
http://www.midmods.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5

Dedicated to hacking modding MIDs

By: pepilo

pepilo — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:01:13 +0000

Take a look at this: http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3588&forum=22

By: ecsk2

ecsk2 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:33:53 +0000

Oh not I remember Compal has been on to this type of form factor for some time now!

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/14/compal-showcases-prototype-umpc-running-windows-ce/

By: ecsk2

ecsk2 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:31:49 +0000

Since Steve (Chippy, you know the guy who runs this site :)) is there at IDF I’m sure we will here more about this shortly.

Anyway I believe that Compal might be the one building these for a number of other brands as Compal is an old well known OEM supplier.
http://www.compal.com/index_En.htm

By: Alte

Alte — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:16:34 +0000

I’ve heared that Aigo has locked down bios that does not allow to boot from extermal media. Is that not true? Or did you managed to install Ubuntu in some other way?

From me inability to install Debian is the the biggest roadblock on the way to buying Aigo/Gigabyte.

By: skizm

skizm — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:40:09 +0000

Just cancelled my order, oh well time to look at other devices i think.

By: LosOutlandos

LosOutlandos — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:31:48 +0000

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/compal-announces-mid-slider-with-global-hspa-edge-data/

now there’s a third manufacturer who sells this hardware…