For 799 yuan or just about $117, it’s the cheapest WiFi-enabled MID to date, cheaper than the Chuwi W3000. The Cube MID B53WIFI runs has a 4.3-inch touchscreen and runs on Linux. It plays multiple video formats including RMVB and AVI. Apparently, the Cube B53WIFI has a server multimedia search engine. Not sure what it [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
Here’s another MID you can to your growing list of to-watch-out-for devices this year, the dmedia M0. It was showcased at Computex and looks primed and ready for the big time. The dmedia M0 comes with 4.3-inch 800×480 capacitive touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, Samsung 533-800MHz processor, and is WiMax ready as well. Albeit at first glance [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
Charbax has got a hands-on video for us, and it’s the dazzling new Archos 9 PC Tablet. This big multimedia Wndows 7-running PMP is supposed to support multitouch screen. The UMPC is amazing, resistive touchscreen responds very well to the fingers or the stylus. It’s also equipped with mouse buttons. There’s a webcam, a USB, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 11, 2009
This is the new flagship product for Archos, the 9 PC Tablet and it will come out packing a Windows 7 OS. It has an 8.9-inch touchscreen and is powered by a 1.2Ghz Atom Z515 processor and has DVB-T. This isn’t really a departure from the original Archos devices like the Gen5 WiFi series except [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 10, 2009
If you think the current crop of netbooks and MIDs are the most compact mobile computers you’ll ever see this lifetime, you better think again. The CTD Dragonfly is a “crossfolding” MID which promises to bring portability and ease of use to a whole new level. What you’re looking at is just a mock up, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 10, 2009
We know that Intel’s Moorestown chip is better than the Intel Atom netbooks are currently using now, but what if we tell you the 45nm Moorestown processor is built with MIDs in mind and that a company called Elektrobit has fashioned a MID with iPhonesque form factor and a UI of incredible charm? The undubbed MID [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 2, 2009
High-flying Chinese-manufacturer Aigo is willing to bet on a high-powered mobile phone that also functions as a MID. This means, it will probably have netbook functionalities with iPhonesque form factor. The photo above gives you an idea what an Aigo MID Phone. The slideout QWERTY keyboard it features is interesting in that it uses mouse [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 26, 2009
A really cheap MID has come China’s way and, hopefully, our way pretty soon. The Windows CE Chuwi W3000 will be flying off the shelves with the very decent price tag of 999 yuan, whihc makes about $146 USD. Chwi makes several storage capacities available and the GPS is optional, to our understanding, so you [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 15, 2009
We’ve been wondering when Chuwi will come out with its UMPC. If Aigo can do it, why not Chwui, maker of the T8 PMP? The Chuwi W3000 has WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS and the tastiest optional applications: instant messaging, navigation software, among others probably related to multimedia. It plays AVI and RMVB and perhaps other [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 11, 2009
Our thought when we first we laid eyes on photos of the SmartQ 7 Internet tablet was, How much do they cost. Little did we know another question, just as crucial, would pop up. What color do we want our SmartQ 7 to be? The problem is the fast launch date. The MID was announced [...]
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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