Update: Some specs now available. See below.
It’s going to get more confusing as CES goes on. What’s a MID and what’s a UMPC? At the end of the day, it’s up to the marketing teams and what they believe has the best marketing potential. Good to see, then, that LG are calling their ultra mobile PC a UMPC. ultra mobile PC is a more developed term and far simpler to find on Google searches. (Try searching for ‘CES MID.’ You’ll end up with a lot of ‘mid 2008 launch’ stories!)
As is normal for a ‘leak’, there isn’t much news and in this case, I can’t even find a source. i4U News have found this image which is just a rendering. I would take this one with a small pinch of salt until we get more firm details. I’ve already alerted the ‘runners’ on the CES floor that they should head over to LG ASAP!
As for specs, we have this so far:
The LG ultra mobile PC features a 4.8 inch touchscreen and a slide out QWERTY keyboard. It is based on the Intel Menlow platform and features 1GB of RAM, and a 40GB HDD. The connectivity of the LG ultra mobile PC is with HSDPA, Bluetooth and Wifi pretty comprehensive.
Those specifications (HDD and HSDPA) indicate a rather high-end MID with pricing in the $600-$800 range. The more I think about it the more I expect companies to release two versions of a single hardware device. A low end ‘MID’ with Intel’s flash storage and running Linux and then a high-end professional ‘UMPC’ with HSDPA, bigger storage and Windows XP. It allows those marketing people (there they are again!) some creativity with their pricing.
Update from DGILog: (translation)
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Original story: i4U News. Via JKKMobile.
