With just a few hours to go before the madness kicks off in CES, news about those two, very similar 4.8” UMPCs/MIDs has surfaced.

Discovered by the great Pocketables community last week, the Tainell is a new 5″ MID/UMPC based on the Intel Menlow platform that is due in Sept or October.

Just when I thought everything had gone quiet, up pops a new 4.8” 800×480 MID!

Clearly, one of the most interesting and attention-grabbing devices we had at SXSW was the tiny clamshell form-factor UMID MBook. It’s design, a combination of a familiar form factor and attractive styling, has been highlighted by commenter’s as a winning…

Over at UMPCPortal I’m tracking the various versions of the Compal MID, their specifications and where you can buy them. Following an interesting forum thread over there I’ve written a short article that talks about the variants of the device…