Proving that the Italians just never stop communicating is the second MID to appear in their country. The IDOL. Baed on the Compal JAX-10 design and using the Redflag Midinux software build, the IDOL is selling through Itelco for 449 without contract or FREE if you sign up for a 24x40Euros data contract.  It calls into question the current 500 Euro + price for the Aigo MID which doesn’t have 3G included! Details here (Italian) Thanks Minuz.

For our German readers: I was speaking to Sascha of EeePCNews the other day and he mentioned the meet-and-greet that he is planning in Köln. As I’ve had a few people ask me about meeting up in Germany, I thought it would be a good opportunity if I joined up with him on this event and brought up some UMPCs that people could test out.  Wann: Samstag, 08. November 2008 – ab 16:00 UHR Wo: Woyton an der Hohestraße In der Höhle 6 / Große Sandkaule 50667 Köln I’ll be […]

Remember my in-tent Samsung Q1 Ultra test? 9hrs battery life on the Samsung Q1 with 25% backlight? An average drain of 6.9 watts. It was impressive and since I blew up the Q1 Ultra doing some solar-charging tests, I’ve been missing those 5, 6 and 7hr figures. I was just getting over the trauma until I read this article about another Samsung Mobile product with great battery life. Notebook Magazine have just done a full set of battery life tests on the NC10 Netbook and it looks like Samsung have […]

I’m going to be honest. We haven’t been covering netbooks with very much enthusiasm. Why? Because except for a few, they are all the same components stuck in a boring looking plastic laptop shell. I mean how many more models of the EEE will Asus still release? I have lost track already. There have been a few netbooks however that stand out such as the S101 or the N10 from Asus. Joining them is the new Mini 1000 from HP. With the base price at $399 you get the standard […]

Jkk has been playing with the first MID that has world-wide availability, the Aigo P8860 [Portal page]. Being the amazing modder that he is, he has already managed to put 3G in it, and has a video demo of the MID browsing with 3G which later goes into details of the mod itself. The video which you can see below, shows various sites including YouTube playback which works great, and I am happy to see that scrolling looks to be very smooth and easy to use in the web browser. […]

Sascha from EeePCNews.de recently put up an unboxing of LG’s first attempt at a netbook, the LG X110 [Portal page]. It seemed as though the X110 got lost for a little while, probably because of its cookie-cutter netbook specs released in the face of more exciting hardware, but according to our Portal popularity graph, there has been some growing interest. This is the first unboxing I’ve seen of the X110, and it is a pretty basic unboxing at that. Although it definitely has generic netbook specs, I think this is […]

Tnkgrl has been on a modding-spree with her new Acer Aspire One [Portal page]. I noted in my review of the Aspire One that some of the important connectivity options were lacking, such as Bluetooth and 3G. Luckily smart people like tnkgrl are here to show us how we can fix some of those important but neglected components. Moving on to part three of her Aspire One modding-spree, she shows us how to put HSDPA into the Aspire One for 3G connectivity. Amateurs be warned: this is not a simple […]

There has been lots of attention around this end of the blogosphere lately about a site launched by Intel and Asus. The site is called WePC, and it hopes to collectively gather the best ideas for a laptop. Users can submit just an idea, or a complete idea of their dream computer. Submissions can be voted on by the community, and the site says that Asus will build the best computer (based on community votes), and Intel will power it.   The idea seems pretty cool and I’m very excited […]