In just a few hours we should hear details (assuming someone reports them) of the UMPC/MID plans from Intel as David Perlmutter gives his keynote and kicks of the Ultra Mobile track at IDF. In the meantime, there are some images and thoughts starting to come through from people at the event.
Most interesting is this article from APCMag. They appear to have had a demo of MIDLinux and have posted some nice images. They also seem to be covering the event well. It will be worth keeping an eye on their RSS feed.
Nice to see that MIDLinux is backwards compatible and runs on ‘older’ UMPCs. Does it mean that the new T-Swivel ultra mobile PC is going to be launched today? Will it be Linux only? This could disappoint a few people that were expecting XP/Vista. There are some more images of the UI in the APCMag gallery too. It looks unimpressive from still images but APCMag reports “…the user interface is slick, with very smooth animation.” Poor mans Aero perhaps?
CNET have also got an image of the swivel too proving that the one above is not a Photoshop job! A few more in their gallery. Unfortunately, no one has got images of Firefox running yet.
Note that its MIDINUX, not MIDLINUX as was in some Intel slides and reported by me before.
More RedFlag MIDINUX images in our Gallery.
