At CES a couple of important companies have announced their first mobile internet device. The MIDs will be making it big this year, or we think, although we are still not sure what the difference is between a MID and a UMPC. Any body can exlain this for us?
Aigo is jumping into the Mobile Internet Device business alogside another newcomer - Lenovo. There isn’t much info about Aigo and Lenovo’s MID but we do have videos for you of the two devices. Both are touch screen devices that connect to the Internet via WiFi. Aigo’s MID has a more conventional slide out QWERTY keyboard while Lenovo makes do with numeric keys tucked in on the right side of the screen. I must say, Lenovo has a very interesting device with multi-touch support.
Aigo MID video after the break:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imo03Ek_XpI[/youtube]
Lenovo MID video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1fu_iv2r1Y[/youtube]
January 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
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January 6th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
UMPC is Microsoft’s marketing term and MID is Intel’s marketing term. Also MIDs seem to tend to be smaller than UMPCs.
January 6th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
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January 17th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
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February 25th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
[...] Lenovo and Aigo MID videos. carrypad.com Found 50 days ago The Aigo device looks fantastic to me. Its just what I’m looking for in a MID. 4.8″ (estimated) screen size, Menlow platform, slide-out keyboard. A grown up N810 with, I assume, a higher price and less battery life. The Aigo doesn’t look as impressive with what looks like Everun dimensions and a numeric keyboard on the side. Expect more on this in the next few days. Via UMPCPortal and JKKMobile [...]
March 8th, 2008 at 8:23 am
[...] UMPC stuff via two of the pros out there, Steve at UMPC Portal and JKK, from JKKMobile . Since the Aigo MID was announced in CES, I have been anxious to do the design template and some design and color [...]
April 18th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
[...] to be impossible. We may have to move the impossible bar. I should point out the Aigo had what appeared to be the most interesting hardware implementation, smaller and it included a nice keyboard. It is [...]
May 24th, 2008 at 10:07 am
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July 24th, 2008 at 9:11 am
[...] Aigo’s mobile Internet device or MID has been officially priced, so we can expect it out in the market in a while. Is this the first MID out in the market? If so, the Aigo got itself a coup here. It’s priced affordably for such a groundbreaking device. It combines power from an 800MHz Atom Z500 with 500MB of RAM and the elegance of multitouch. For HKD5228 or $670, you will also enjoy a 4.8-inch WVGA (800 x 480-pixel) scree, which is as good as COWON’s P5’s screen.On board isWiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and GPS. [...]