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Rumor: Intel Scores Nokia as Atom customer.

Posted on 23 June 2009

Already in my calendar yesterday was a short-notice conference call from Intel. Apparently they have an announcement to make. This morning I woke to see the keywords Intel and Nokia streaming through twitter and google reader. The rumor is that…

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iPhone 3GS website load time tests

Posted on 22 June 2009

If you are a regular reader of sites in our end of the blogosphere I’m almost sure that you are aware that the iPhone 3GS has now been released by Apple. While not a drastic change from the original, the…

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Nvidia on Smartbook Operating Systems: WinCE best for now.

Posted on 18 June 2009

This is a subject we discussed at length on the last MeeMobility podcast. Operating systems for smartbooks. Android appears to be a great brand but it’s not ready for the big(ger) screen yet. As far as I know, the Open…

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Intel Moorestown Q&A video from jkkmobile

Posted on 12 June 2009

Jkk has tons of video coverage of the now finished Computex 2009. Here he has an interesting 17 minute video of a Q&A with Intel’s General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher. Jkk also rounded up a list of all…

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Jkk hands-on with the new EB MID reference design [video]

Posted on 12 June 2009

A few days ago I showed you how the new EB MID reference design has been updated from the one that we saw in 2007. Up until this point I had only  seen renders of the device, but it looks like…

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WiMAX MID running Windows CE [video]

Posted on 12 June 2009

Jkk seems to have gotten his hands on many of the MIDs shown at Computex this year. Here you can see him checking out the Dmedia M0, which is a MID that looks pretty nice on the outside, but is…

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LonMID M100 Atom-based Phone is Official.

Posted on 10 June 2009

We saw a few XP-based phones at Computex but they didn’t impress to be honest. This one, however, looks good even if you disregard the fact that it’s got voice capability.

A theory on why Apple is keeping quiet about the iPhone 3GS specs

Posted on 09 June 2009

A quick look around the iPhone 3GS ‘Tech Specs’ page reveals plenty of info about battery life, screen size, resolution, and a number of other info, but we have yet to see any info on the RAM or CPU speed…

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iPhone 3GS - The Most Important MID

Posted on 09 June 2009

A few minutes after the iphone 3GS announcement yesterday I tweeted that it was still the most important MID out there. Despite some ridiculously lame announcements (MMS and tethering for example) the fact that the processor has been upgraded, that…

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IAC Slider MID running Android

Posted on 08 June 2009

Spotted in a video from Techvideoblog is this 4.3” slider MID running Android on the Freescale i.MX51 platform. i.MX51 runs a Cortex A8 CPU core which means the browser rendering performance could be pretty sharp.

Specifications are unknown  but clearly the device…

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Moorestown based Inventec MID looks solid [video]

Posted on 05 June 2009

Jkk seems to be getting his hands on all of the cool stuff at Computex. Another short video showing a very solid looking Moorestown based MID. It seems to have a very sizable screen which covers much of the real estate…

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Evolution of the EB MID reference design

Posted on 05 June 2009

Back in 2007, we saw the original EB MID reference design as seen above. As it was announced on their site, they called it the EB MIMD (Mobile Internet Multimedia Device). It was a slider device with a hardware keyboard and…

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Compal KAX-15 Menlow-based MID. Info and JKK’s Video. Coming via Aigo?

Posted on 05 June 2009

I’ve been careful to point out in the past that Moorestown and Menlow will overlap and continue to be available as two separate platforms in the MID space. While a version of Moorestown will support XP, it won’t be the…

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Intel’s Ultra Mobility Event Live Blogged

Posted on 04 June 2009

MIDMoves (that’s me!) live blogged the Intel Mobility Event today and has a bunch of details and pics up.

5 Moorestown MID designs
Demo of Wind River Moblin 2.0 UI
New Compal MID on Menlow
Intel highlights that Moorestown will idle…

DigiCube MIDPhone-50

Posted on 04 June 2009

Jkk has a short video from the show floor of Computex showing the DigiCube MIDPhone-50. As you might have guessed from the name, it is a MID that also functions as a phone. The unit has a sliding/tilting HTC Shift [Portal…

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jkOnTheRun’s James Kendrick goes hands on with the Viliv X70 UMPC

Posted on 03 June 2009

After all of the coverage that the Viliv S5 [Portal page] has seen lately, it is about time that its bigger brother, the Viliv X70, gets a little bit of face time. James Kendrick from jkOnTheRun has a nice video showing off…

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Tracking down the XPPhone

Posted on 02 June 2009

It’s been reported by a few sites recently but today it launched…apparently. At some time between 0930 and 1100 while I was getting my press pass and finding my feet at Computex, In Technology Group launched the XPPhone.

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