As you probably know, Chippy made the jump across the big puddle to attend this years South by Southwest in Austin Texas. SXSW started as a music festival many years ago, but has since evolved into much, much more. A good bit of SXSW involves showing off new media trends.
That is of course why Chippy is there this week, showing people who have been lugging around 17” laptops that there is a pocketable alternative in the form of a MID. Chippy has tons of MIDs to show around; have a look at his video below:
Chippy will be at SXSW all week covering the show and is updating the MIDMoves blog to get you all the coverage. If you like your updates in micro flavor, check out @MIDMoves on twitter.
March 14th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Chippy has MID fever at SXSW http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=6261
March 15th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Until this week, I haven’t really found any value in the concept of a MID (meaning the more colloqual than “official Intel” definition: pocketable, or nearly pocketable, tablet device that runs a desktop OS, with or without a UI customized for the small screen, and that is not a phone).
For me, my pocketable has to be usable as a phone. For me, a non-phone, but still mobile, device has to be bigger than pocketable (but smaller than a 13″ laptop). My pocketable does indeed have to be as useful as a
But, with this weeks announcements about ZER01′s phone service (currently only for WinMo devices, but could be promising in the long run), and Google Voice (not just VOIP and fake SMS (like Skype), but also real SMS) … I’m starting to see how a MID with WWAN capabilities could be used as my only/primary phone.
Right now, I’m really looking forward to what Nokia comes up with for their next generation Maemo device. It’s supposed to have built in GPRS/EDGE/HSPA, and if ZER01 ends up with a Maemo compatible VOIP capability (SIP compatible, or port their client to Maemo), then that could be a great pocketable solution right there … a MID-Phone of sorts (one step up from a smartphone
). The other option is using that next-gen Maemo device with Google Voice. Either way, it could be quite promising.
March 15th, 2009 at 1:43 am
I want to lock myself inside this room and stay for a month! with free room Wifi of course
March 15th, 2009 at 10:04 am
WTF – such a large amount of electronic rubbish!
save the environment!
March 15th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Its been a MID fest so far and something special has happened between me and the Fujitsu U820.
John Reply:
March 15th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
If only the U820 had full support for Ubuntu and/or Android.