Comments on: Samsung Mondi MID Launch, Specifications and Video.

By: tino

tino — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:48:50 +0000

Why release something whose spec is so close to the n810 when n810 is about to be replaced any time now?

As for Maemo OS2008 vs WM 6.1. I can not think of more than a handful of appo that runs better on WM than on Maemo. Maybe chinese input support… music player… PIM app… that’s about it.

By: Eoughbrock

Eoughbrock — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:12:37 +0000

an ARM device that doesnt even have a phone built in, so you would need this AND a phone? NO THX.

By: John

John — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:52:53 +0000

I don’t, personally, care about a chat cam, but it would be nice to see a decent quality portrait camera on the back.

By: Andrey

Andrey — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:51:37 +0000

One more. A webcam support for Skype should be integral part of it.

By: Andrey

Andrey — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:44:10 +0000

You are absolutely right point by point !!!!!

By: John

John — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:34:12 +0000

Why would I want 3G if the device has 4G?

Well, for starters, because 4G coverage is abysmal. I want 3G in a device because I want to be able to actually use it. Not just flash it at my friends and say “wooo! I have a 4G device, aren’t I cool?”. Even if I lived in a WiMAX market, it would be nice to be able to travel more than 50 miles from home with it, and still have WWAN connectivity.

So far, the ONLY 4G device I’ve seen that is worth a damn is the HTC device for Russia that has both WiMAX and GPRS/EDGE/HSPA … you get the advantages of 4G service when you’re in an area with WiMAX coverage, and you get the advantage of any service at all when you’re in 2G/3G areas.

As for this Samsung, it needs two things:

1) 3G to backup/supplement its 4G (for the US, that would probably mean EVDO, since its 4G will be associated with Sprint)

2) OS choices for Android and/or Mer (Maemo on non-Nokia devices) and/or Ubuntu-ARM

Ideally it would have the VMWare for ARM that was demo’ed not too long ago, and give you choices for WinMo, Android, Mer, Ubuntu, and maybe even Symbian. THAT would be a killer pocketable.

The best possible pocketable:

- Physically, like this or an N810, maybe like an HTC Rhodium 100 or Nokia N97 in styling and tilt screen, but definitely big enough to have the 4.1″ or 4.3″ screen (800×480 is plenty, but supporting external displays that are much larger would be nice). 5 way dpad on the face. Some buttons whose functions can vary between Android, WinMo, etc.

- Dual SIM GSM/WCDMA with GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA. Quad-band GSM (voice, messaging and data), at least tri-band WCDMA, but preferably quad-band WCDMA (euro, asian, at&t/nam, and t-mo usa). And, obviously, wifi. Other variants for single SIM GSM/UMTS + WiMAX and single SIM GSM/UMTS + LTE would be nice. I’d probably be absolutely charmed if it had a variant for dual GSM + LTE … maybe dual GSM + WiMAX.

- VMWare + at least Android and Mer, Symbian would be nice, but isn’t actually necessary (I don’t care one way nor the other about it having support for WinMo, and I wont need Ubuntu-ARM if it has Mer, but I wouldn’t sneeze at Ubuntu-ARM support, either). If it was Atom based, instead of ARM, then I’d probably drop Symbian (and just go with Android-x86 and Mer-x86).

- An interesting “also” might be a VMWare compatible splashtop/instant-on OS (esp. if the vmware hypervisor itself can start relatively instant-on), and a VMWare compatible wireless router OS (like Cradlepoint’s products, or the Novatel Mifi products).

- LOTS of battery, and large/easy-to-use external battery accessories.

- LOTS of RAM, decent internal storage, at least one MicroSDHC slot, USB client for charging, USB host/otg for peripherals, Apple’s new display port (in a micro size) for video out. Maybe a docking station port.

Yup, that’d be my ideal pocketable.

By: Vakeros

Vakeros — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:36:06 +0000

No 3G because it is aimed at 4G. If you have 4G why do you want 3? This is also why limited availability, where do you get 4G?

By: andrey

andrey — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:13:58 +0000

There is no 3G. No chance.

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:56:04 +0000

btw, i could have sworn i read that the cpu was a samsung/arm11 clocked at around 500-600mhz.

could be from a engadget china article…

By: John

John — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:32:54 +0000

Assuming it really is the best browser for WinMo (I wouldn’t know), that doesn’t make it a decent mobile browser. It just means that on WinMo, it doesn’t have any competition (“big fish in a little pond” syndrome). On Maemo, however, there’s a better alternative to Opera Mobile (and possibly on other mobile platforms).

By: Sokonomi

Sokonomi — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:27:27 +0000

The desktop version doesnt have ajax/flash ABOUT to hit, so yeah mobile version..

And I have yet to see a better browser for winMO. (No, safari is NOT better)

By: John

John — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:18:21 +0000

Opera on the desktop might be moving along just fine, but that’s not what I was talking about. I was talking about the Mobile version, which is what is likely to be running on this thing.

The Mobile version sucks … butt.

By: Sokonomi

Sokonomi — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:04:25 +0000

Opera has vastly improved lately, and theres even ajax/flash support about to hit.

Also, theres quite a few dual OS MIDs out there, i think the fujitsu flybook has win Mo and XP.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:36:39 +0000

That is exactly what I thought when I saw it.

Nokia killed the N810 Wimax pretty fast so I wonder whether this unit will be successful or not.

By: JeCh

JeCh — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:01:17 +0000

How can you compare this device with the OQO? This Samsung is just a PDA or smartphone with a bigger display and without the phone. It certainly has an ARM processor, much slower then Intel Atom.