The video demo begins with an unboxing and a good look at how you’ll be able to use the Witstech A81 as an E-Book Reader. It’s not anywhere near as thrilling as the iPad video demo. The implication, though, is obvious. As long as you do not mind stylus input, the Windows CE on the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 15, 2010
We’ve seen the Tainell T500 MID nnounced in the middle of last year and thought nothing much of it. It’s a big and powerful device with WiFi, 3G and GPS. It runs what looks like Windows XP, but today the Tainell is showing off shots of what appears to be a virtual keyboard that fans [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 14, 2010
With all the Windows 7 tablets coming out, what’s an XP MID gonna do? Why, get cheaper of course. When the BenQ S6 MID was announced it was going for $420 or thereabouts. But that was last year. This year you can buy one online for $50 cheaper. That’s not a lot as price drops [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The 5.6-inch touchscreen XP MID from Shenzhen Seed Industrial is powered by a VIA C7-1.0GHZand runs on Windows XP. It’s also got 16GB of SSD memory. The design is fetching to say the least. The white metallic chassis and the speaker and webcam pairing on one side and with the cute iMPC logo (if I’m [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 25, 2009
It’s difficult to see manufacturer’s fascination with MIDs. Everyone wants to make a pricey multimedia internet device. Inbrics, a Korean company, will probably have VoIP calling. For now the promise is advanced convergence, and we can glimpse a thin device with a slideout QWERTY and touchscreen. The as-yet unnamed device will have WiFi and GPS [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
The processor maker has jumped into the handset market with the unveiling (leaking) of their very own QWERTY MID. It’s slightly underpowered compared to the AMD Super Mobile CPU-powered xpPhone. I’m comparing it to the xpPhone because the VIA MID will also feature telephony. Indeed, the slideout QWERTY and the tall form factor suggests this [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 6, 2009
Joining the Motorola Droid in the Android 2.0 scene, Moto has just unveiled their new collection of Android-based MID products. Called the AMP, short for Android Media Platform, these are actually targeting developers who want a portable solution to test their Android wares out before unleashing them into the market. The only AMP version available [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Multimedia Internet devices are invading the Chinese market and SmartQ is one brand name to watch out for. The SmartQ V7 Internet Tablet is one of the more intriguing MID designs out there, though we will not be surprised if this were only a relabel of the SmartQ 7. They sure look the same. The [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 26, 2009
Venturing away from its usual device nook, the Android platform can now be spotted in this Ramos MID dubbed the W7. It features a 4.8-inch 800×480 touchscreen display, WiFi, and runs on a Rockchip processor. It also boasts of 1080p video support though it’ll probably be accessible through HDMI connection only. Likewise, while it [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 18, 2009
Despite its lack of originality when it comes to its design, we definitely love what this new Mitac MID has to offer under the hood. Aside from being equipped with an Nvidia Tegra chip, this yet-to-be-named Mitac MID also boasts of 720p media playback, HDMI output, TV Tuner, and Windows CE with a custom UI. [...]
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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