Comments on: LonMID M100 Atom-based Phone is Official. http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/ portable pc, mobile computer, pocket pc and handheld computing Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:29:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Арсений http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-24548 Арсений Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:29:08 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-24548 Согласен в принципе :) Для меня это точно очень актуально :) Согласен в принципе :) Для меня это точно очень актуально :)

]]> By: johnkzin http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23467 johnkzin Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:06:50 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23467 If I were to drop something from this, it wouldn't be the phone part. It would be the Atom CPU. I'd go with a TI OMAP, and try to license Maemo 5 for it :-) 5 row keyboard, 4.8" touch screen, convertible tablet, phone+MID, and Maemo. What more could I want in my pocketable? :-) If I were to drop something from this, it wouldn’t be the phone part.

It would be the Atom CPU. I’d go with a TI OMAP, and try to license Maemo 5 for it :-)

5 row keyboard, 4.8″ touch screen, convertible tablet, phone+MID, and Maemo. What more could I want in my pocketable? :-)

]]> By: johnkzin http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23466 johnkzin Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:04:49 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23466 It's not just nice from the "because we can" point of view. It's also nice from the "I don't want to carry two pocketables" point of view. It’s not just nice from the “because we can” point of view. It’s also nice from the “I don’t want to carry two pocketables” point of view.

]]> By: TareX http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23321 TareX Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:33:08 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23321 It's too thick to be a phone. Sorry, there's a reason why MIDs/UMPCs cannot double as phones. Battery life isn't quite there yet. Even the Palm Pre is reporting terrible battery life. It’s too thick to be a phone. Sorry, there’s a reason why MIDs/UMPCs cannot double as phones. Battery life isn’t quite there yet.

Even the Palm Pre is reporting terrible battery life.

]]> By: yves http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23319 yves Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:38:54 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23319 * 800MHz Intel Atom Z500 processor * 512MB DDR2 RAM (up to 1GB) * 4GB SSD * Midinux operating system * 4.8" primary touchscreen (800 x 480), 2.4" secondary display (320 x 240) * Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, 802.11b/g * Webcam * I/O: SIM card slot, microSD card slot, USB 2.0, miniUSB, headphone jack, microphone looks like an Aigo MID with a swivel screen... * 800MHz Intel Atom Z500 processor
* 512MB DDR2 RAM (up to 1GB)
* 4GB SSD
* Midinux operating system
* 4.8″ primary touchscreen (800 x 480), 2.4″ secondary display (320 x 240)
* Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, 802.11b/g
* Webcam
* I/O: SIM card slot, microSD card slot, USB 2.0, miniUSB, headphone jack, microphone

looks like an Aigo MID with a swivel screen…

]]> By: teh.sean http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23312 teh.sean Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:51:28 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23312 Yes, very much so. Looks a little less expandable though. Probably only has a micro SD slot and USB mini port. Yes, very much so.
Looks a little less expandable though.
Probably only has a micro SD slot and USB mini port.

]]> By: yves http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23311 yves Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:48:06 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23311 Except if it is two separate devices in one shell, as Chippy imagined it could be... In this case, if both devices can use the SIM card for voice / 3G depending on your current usage, and if you can shutdown the MID (or have an efficient standby mode, like on the UMID) and keep the phone part on, waiting for incoming calls, it could be a very interesting solution. Just missing the performances of the UMID, but with a better design. Except if it is two separate devices in one shell, as Chippy imagined it could be…
In this case, if both devices can use the SIM card for voice / 3G depending on your current usage, and if you can shutdown the MID (or have an efficient standby mode, like on the UMID) and keep the phone part on, waiting for incoming calls, it could be a very interesting solution.
Just missing the performances of the UMID, but with a better design.

]]> By: tmarks11 http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23306 tmarks11 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:52:12 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23306 very pretty. But integration of a 3G or HSDPA PCIe card still doesn't make this stand-out from some of the other already (or near already) released clamshell MIDS, such as the UMID-M1 (which has a faster ATOm and a higher resolution screen). I can't see this selling itself on its merits as a phone; doesn't really have the hardware functionality to be one. anotehr "me too" device; a solution in search of a problem to solve. very pretty.

But integration of a 3G or HSDPA PCIe card still doesn’t make this stand-out from some of the other already (or near already) released clamshell MIDS, such as the UMID-M1 (which has a faster ATOm and a higher resolution screen).

I can’t see this selling itself on its merits as a phone; doesn’t really have the hardware functionality to be one.

anotehr “me too” device; a solution in search of a problem to solve.

]]> By: phonefrenzi http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-54976 phonefrenzi Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:11:16 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-54976 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">LonMID M100 Atom-based Phone is Official. | UMPCPortal - The ... http://bit.ly/H5x0Q</span></span>

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]]> By: primaz_clone http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23300 primaz_clone Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:32:27 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23300 It doesn't have a full size touch-type keyboard, 15" display, 1 TB HDD that the mainstream buyer is expecting from a pocketable mobile device..... so I predict that it will fail. Just figured I would beat him to the punch... ;> It doesn’t have a full size touch-type keyboard, 15″ display, 1 TB HDD that the mainstream buyer is expecting from a pocketable mobile device….. so I predict that it will fail.

Just figured I would beat him to the punch… ;>

]]> By: CALICALI http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23299 CALICALI Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:21:59 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23299 What were the other XP based phones? What were the other XP based phones?

]]> By: AwesomeDude http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23296 AwesomeDude Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:39:02 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23296 until the Atom can compete with ARM in the size arena (which also means power efficiency) many of these devices look absolutely silly to be used as phone, not to mention extremely underpowered if u want to load Windows. they look fine as traditional MIDs though. personally i prefer sliders. until the Atom can compete with ARM in the size arena (which also means power efficiency) many of these devices look absolutely silly to be used as phone, not to mention extremely underpowered if u want to load Windows.

they look fine as traditional MIDs though.

personally i prefer sliders.

]]> By: pepilo http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23289 pepilo Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:12:48 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23289 Very intersting device. Remembers me at the sharp zaurus C series. Very intersting device. Remembers me at the sharp zaurus C series.

]]> By: Morganj http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23287 Morganj Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:04:30 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23287 Mid with phone is a nice thing from a hardware and a "because we can" point of view. For me i like the idea of have my MID and phone separate from a purely practical point of view, in my personal experience i tend to use the MID to take care of some work while i am actualy talking on the phone or to look up some information during a call, and from that standpoint i prefer these to be separate devices. But (this is where i start to contradict myself) i think that i would really like one of these devices as a "because it can be done" device. Mid with phone is a nice thing from a hardware and a “because we can” point of view.
For me i like the idea of have my MID and phone separate from a purely practical point of view, in my personal experience i tend to use the MID to take care of some work while i am actualy talking on the phone or to look up some information during a call, and from that standpoint i prefer these to be separate devices.
But (this is where i start to contradict myself) i think that i would really like one of these devices as a “because it can be done” device.

]]> By: scoobie http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/06/lonmid-m100-atom-based-phone-is-official/#comment-23283 scoobie Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:05:00 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=7892#comment-23283 My view is MIDs will only take off in Europe and USA if they are phones as well. Asia may be different however, where you do tend to see people using MID like devices on the tube etc My view is MIDs will only take off in Europe and USA if they are phones as well. Asia may be different however, where you do tend to see people using MID like devices on the tube etc

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