Seated and ready to go.

0900 Started. Preamble. Dadi Perlmutter coming on stage now.

Warming-up by talking about the definition of cool. Today’s keynote will cover a lot of ground. I’ll be covering the ultra mobile…

We’re at the Archos 9 launch event.

Ron Ferguson talking about history of mobile computing devices, Archos 10 netbook.

And now the Archos 9 launch….

Ultra Thin

Ultra Powerful

Ultra HD

Ultra Mobile

Note it’s…

Here’s the demo video of Moblin 2.1 for handhelds that was shown at IDF09.

Live updates and images from the first keynote at IDF 2009, San Fransisco.

More images in the UMPCPortal gallery.

So far I like what i’m seeing on the UMID. I had a chat with them and the changes are a direct result of feedback that they…

UMID M2 UMPC

Originally uploaded by umpcportal.com

This is the new UMID M2 that UMIDpulled out of their bag at the Mobility Meetup, IDF09.
Planned for…

…and this is just the stuff they have in their garage! I know that Viliv will have the S7 there and as always, there could be a surprise or two.
Note that the new Archos 9 will be there so unless someone gets one to play with this weekend, it will be the first chance for a good hands-on test.
Keep and eye on my ‘channels’ that are streaming through on the MIDMoves home page. Flickr and Twitter are likely to be the first places that I send information to.

Location, Entertainment, Connectivity and Productivity. The four elements of a MID as proposed by Intel a few years ago (March 2007 although the label was ‘UMPC’ at that point. It changed to ‘MID’ a month later) It’s clear that it’s a winning combination because a lot of people appear to be moving in to cover the same ground…

Here’s a very early look at the Quanta MID. I haven’t analysed it yet. (ports, cam, etc etc) but will get detailed hands-on later.

YouTube video is crunching as I type this so if it doesn’t play, give it a…

This looks sooooo sweet.

I’m sitting outside the event Entrance. There’s a huge rush from the camera people and the doors are open. We’ve got the press release and it looks like my predictions are correct. We should see 5 Moorestown…

IMG_9335 Listen, netbooks and ‘thin is in’ notebooks are cool and all that but can we have some MID and UMPC love please? Read more.

Golfers have a term for it “Drive for show, putt for dough.” And the MID’s on display at SXSW from the Mid Moves team certain had that same characteristic. While the shapes and looks of all the devices caught people’s…

It used to be the rule that a stand at a trade show would need ‘Booth Babes’ to attract the attention of the thousands of people at a conference. SXSW Interactive is not like that… what attracts the attendees in…

(This should have gone out on Saturday. I hust found it in the draft folder!)

Listen to a mobile podcast, recorded on the Fujitsu U2010 a short while after a bunch of video interviews.

podcast1

What a pleasure it is to be able to talk about MIDs to people that are open to new techniques and new tools. What a great learning experience it was and what a boost to my confidence about the MID…

I bumped into a keen mobile computing fan yesterday who promptly whipped out her flip cam and interviewed me. It wasn’t until after that I found out it was Jemima Kiss from my favorite newspaper, The Guardian.