We had to split up the 1.5hr Meet:Mobility podcast 40 because there was just too much to talk about! In it we (that’s JKK, Sascha and myself) cover CES with a focus on netbooks, MIDs, smartbooks, tablets and ereaders in the three-part podcast that you can download or stream at Meet:Mobility.
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One of the big surprises of CES was the LG GW990 smartphone and based on progress I’m seeing with Moblin, the AppUp Store and what we’re hearing from Intel, we should expect to see those devices feeding in in Q3 this year. Moorestown is not only limited to smartphones though. There’s huge potential for ‘smart’ connected devices based around the tablet and larger slider form factors. Intel were showing a number of designs at CES and you’ll see them all in the video below.
Despite what seemed like a double-day of work and a whole day without mobile internet yesterday, I hardly had time to publish any content at all which wasn’t really my intention but I guess that’s how it’s going to go for the next few days at CES as the madness builds to a crescendo today, the first real day of CES.
I do have some news though and I’ve got some videos and information to sort through and post on an individual basis but here’s a quick run-down of what I saw yesterday.
Intel, as usual, had a few surprises at Pepcom. The Hanvon Tablet, a 9” capacitive touch 1.6Ghz slate looking not unlike the HP tablet shown at the Microsoft keynote, was interesting. It’s targeted for the Asian market but based on what I saw, I think it would sell in EU and US too. I also got hold of the Fujitus UH9000, the UMID BZ (I have a loaner here on the table) and the Viliv N5 (thumbs up!) I’m being told that I need to watch the Intel keynote very closely today and as I’ve finally got myself sorted out with a Mifi unit here, there’s a good chance I might be able to live blog it.
In addition to Intel’s offerings I got hands-on with the ICD Ultra 7” Android device. It wasn’t working but I can say it’s super lightweight. I also checked out a 9” convertible from Haier which didn’t seem to offer anything more than the Gigabyte T1028M I have but it sounds like it will be competitively priced.
Nvidia will announce Tegra 2 today and after talking to a number of people i’m quite sure we’re going to see a Cortex A9 multi-core platform that will be ready in Q2. That’s not confirmed but all the rumors and responses I’ve had point in that direction. We’ll find out for sure at about 10am here.
Finally, I spoke to Novatell about their MiFi product. The 2352 (version with the applications processor inside and seen in Europe) is getting a bunch of applications soon. One of which will be an application that works with the Eye-Fi card enabling digital photos to be sent straight from the camera’s SD card to Flickr via the Mifi unit.
Stay tuned.
Another CES ‘leak.’ This time it’s the UMID BZ 4.8” clamshell UMPC which is very similar to the Viliv N5 we’ve just reported on.
The BZ has also been known in the past as the M2 and also sells as the Onkyo BX and it improves on the M1 design by adding an optical mouse pointer and mouse buttons, standard Line-out and USB ports and a slight modification to the casing design.
The unit runs on the Intel Atom Z520 (1.2Ghz HT-enabled) and battery life tests by Lazion are showing 5hrs figures. According to the report the BZ will be available in mid-Jan 2010. Pricing of $499 has been mentioned in previous reports but this is unconfirmed.
For more images and a translation, head to Lazion.
We’re planning to get both the N5 and BZ in a side-by-side hands-on at CES in just a few days.
Meet:Mobility Podcast 38 is now up. Recorded on Dec 30th 2009.
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JKK, Sascha and I are extremely proud to announce that we’ll be doing our first ever live-audience MeetMobility podcast recording (and hopefully live broadcast) at CES 2010 on Friday Jan 8th at 2pm
Thanks to Runcore, creators of excellent SSD solutions (I think we all have at least one Runcore–enabled device now) we’ve got a place, a time and an internet connection. With a sack full of news to talk about I doubt we’ll have any problems at all filling a podcast and if we meet any other bloggers on the way, we’ll drag them in too.
It should be fun and we’d love you to join us if you’re at CES. Shout abuse, feed us with cocktails, whatever you fancy!
Here’s the announcement from Runcore:
Join us on Friday the 8th a 2pm where www.Meetmobility.com consisting of www.JKKmobile.com, www.UMPCportal.com and www.Netbooknews.com will hold a round table event discussing the pros and cons of all the new products they are covering at CES. Everyone should come and enjoy the show, as we all know when these guys get together there is sure to be some educated, excited, and enlightening debate that sheds light on products that will surely turn your geek on. The event will be uploaded to YouTube for everyone that cannot attend CES. We also hope to stream it live on Ustream. Keep any eye on www.Meetmobility.com for further up to date information on this event.
Location: Booth #35516 from the NetBook Tech Zone, LVCC South Hall 4
If we can set it up, the live stream (and chat) will be on the usual /live pages on our respective websites.
We thank Runcore for the location, advertising and use of their internet connection.
Before it gets too late and CES becomes a distant memory, I wanted to thank all the bloggers that were out in CES providing detailed news, images and videos for the rest of the world to see and enjoy. You kept us busy for many many hours here at UMPCPortal (I’m still not able to sleep in my local timezone yet!) and it was almost impossible to keep up with all the content at times.
Special thanks goes to Sascha Pallenberg, Jenn Lee and Kevin Tofel who all called in for quick podcast recordings, to Brad for some great netbook coverage and Gottabemobile for their usual high standards of reporting. Engadget did a fantastic job. Also thanks to Lora Heiny who organised the tablet and touch meeting which many of us enjoyed live over Ustream. Finally, thanks to the 850 people that dropped into the live session over the four days where JKK and I did a scary 45 hours of live streaming. The feedback in the chat room was amazing and definitely helped us to keep track of that latest and best news items coming out of Vegas. Star Member award goes to ‘EC’ who spotted the VIA Nano-based Samsung Q1EX and even called in from the floor. We owe you EC!
You can find all the CES podcasts in the RSS feed and, currently, on the front-center column on the homepage. We’ll be going live soon for a roundup podcast, probably on Friday evening here. Follow twitter for latest announcements about that.
JKK, Sascha and I, the three Mobiteers, have already booked an apartment in Hannover for CeBIT 2009 starting on March 02. Hopefully we can repay some of the hard work done by those now suffering with colds, blisters and lack of sleep!
Podcast CES09 #8
Saturday, 10. January 2009 00:06 (CET)
Dell Mini 10
Lime Note
CTL2Go classmate 3
No Samsung device?
UMID getting attention now. Official specs on website uncovered. Lots of interest in forum.
MIO MID
Windows 7 download
Thanks To EC for his photos from CES.
Thanks to forum members.
Podcast CES09 #7
Friday, 9. January 2009 05:08 (CET)
MIO MID
Viliv S7, X70
Locked 3G on Vaio P
New CPU and GPU on Eee PC
BYD Venus MID on the Intel stand. No details.
We’re getting devices!
Jenn over at Pocketables is doing her best of capturing spy shots of yet to be opened CES booths. She has some new pictures of Intel’s MID display up, so go check it out at her site. There are quite a few devices up there, including the err beautiful pink WiBrain which I’m sure many will drool over completely ignore.
Anyways, heres the link.
We’ve just watched all the Samsung press releases go through as the Samsung press conference started in Las Vegas but there wasn’t anything about a UMPC. Only HDTVs and camcorders. That leaves us with the following news so far…
Netbook 3G have lined up a stack of VIA C7-based netbooks that are expected to be shown at the Lunch@Piero’s event on the 9th.
VIA are said [cached news item] to have between 10 and 15% of the global netbook market. Most of the sales are outside the western markets so we rarely get to see the big picture. This showcase halps to put some perspective on it.
Via (French): Netbook 3G » CES 2009 : VIA présente des netbooks encore avec le VIA C7-M !.
We still don’t have the list of devices from Intel yet and CES is just about to start so I’m watching carefuly and keeping my fingers crossed that there will be some shiny new devices that Intel can send out way for the tour. I’ve had tip-offs and read news that there’s a new OQO on the cards, a new Samsung UMPC and a new Sony UMPC so along with the devices that Intel has already shown in a CES warm-up video , there’s a great range of possibilities.
I’ll be covering ultra mobile and MID news coming out of CES over the next week and teaming up with JKKMobile.com to do some live podcasts so stay tuned here and on UMPCPortal.com for the latest. Jenn is actually out in Vegas right now and will be using twitter to send brief updates for her day job at Pocketables. You’ll see those (and my updates) on the fron page of MIDMoves. You can follow general CES blogs, videos, images and ‘tweets’ at this Intel website.
Pankaj Kedia is the director, Global Ecosystem Programs, Mobile Internet Devices at Intel Corporation. The information here is from a telephone interview I made on 23rd Dec.
The ‘journey continues’ says Pankaj, referring to the progress made in the MID market this year and the steps that will be taken to further it in 2009. About 15 Menlow based devices were launched. There are 13 Moblin distribution partners ranging from Novell to Canonical. 3 of these distributors (Canonical, Asianux and WindRiver) are working on Moblin. There are over 7000 developers are involved in the Moblin ecosystem. That’s not bad for year one although many of us in the western world are still asking where the devices are! Distribution for the 15 devices remains tight with many western countries not having direct access at all to a Menlow based device.
Pocketables have done some excellent detective work on an unknown MID they highlighted last month, tracked down the photographer and managed to get back a whole new set of photos.
Is it Atom-based? Is it a new smartphone. Whatever it is, the screen size smacks of ‘full web.’
Pocketables highlights a few possibilities in their post so check it out and let us know what you think.
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