According to Neilsen Online, the mobile Internet audience in the UK is young and growing very quickly in numbers. In the last quarter (Q2-Q3, 2008) the number of people accessing content via ‘mobile Internet’ [undefined] grew by 25% to 7.3 million people, approximately one in 9 of the population, with about 50% of those being under 35 years old. The brief PDF overview also reveals some interesting info about what sites people want access to. Is it because the sites are mobile optimised or is the content that’s the significant […]

I’ve been having quite some fun with the Raon Digital Everun Note S16S over the last 24hrs. One of the forum users, Tenyo, got a patch together to fix the Wifi under a standard Ubuntu 8.10 build and finally the device has sprung into life as a usable ultra mobile PC option. After getting the WiFi working, I spent a few hours tweaking Gnome to have bigger fonts, larger scrollbars, a better toolbar, sub-pixel smoothing and installed a few packages. In my quest for some widgets, I stumbled across Screenlets. […]

Chungwa and Gigabyte will be launching the M528 on Dec 6th with availability set for Dec 22nd according to an official statement appearing in PC World via the IDG News service. This is of course good news for the west because up until now, the product didn’t even have a production line schedule. We had heard that the M528 was to go out initially through Expansys in Europe but that could have changed. I doubt anyone will be getting it as a Christmas present but we’ve put queries out to […]

This is the question that I’ve been battling with over the weekend after someone asked ‘Is the Kindle a mobile Internet device?’ Six months ago I probably would have said ‘no’ and stuck to my belief that a MID should be a pocketable device but since then I’ve changed my opinion slightly. I now believe that the non-pocketable ‘handheld’ aspect is also an important category of MIDs, just as, say, the chunky Dash form-factor is. Consider these Kindle features for a moment. Built-in browser Daylight-readable screen Full keyboard 24hr battery […]

It was bound to happen. Here it is, the worlds first Hello Kitty branded netbook. And my oh my is it cute. On the inside however it comes with what we now consider standard netbook specifications (1.6 Atom, 10″ screen, 120GB HD), and a shell fairly reminiscent of the orignal EEE 701. Its available to order now for the crazy price of $890 from GeekStuff4U. Expensive? Yes. But its the only netbook that will perfectly fit in with your collection of Hello Kitty items. That includes the Hello Kitty outfit […]

In the Gates / Jobs interview at D5 last year, Gates said that flexible displays were about 5-years out if my memory serves me correctly. Screen-size is one of the stumbling blocks getting in the way of smartphones moving into other product categories, including personal computing, and if the problem was solved it would only leave processing power and battery life issues to be solved before smartphones really could become the only device you need to go mobile with. Update on the UMPCs available, the tech and software. regularly updated. […]

Chrysler are introducing a ‘web-edition’ mobile Internet device package for their cars which comprises a Wifi/3G router with one year of 3G data contract, a Sony PSP, a Dell Mini 9, an Apple iPod Touch and Eye-Fi wifi/sd card. The option price is $1999. Mobile Internet Mobility! It got me thinking, given $2000 and assuming you had no mobile devices, what devices would you choose? You’d need to cover the following mobile scenarios. PC Computing (screen, keyboard, storage, desktop OS) Handheld web browser and e-book reader Media (video and audio) […]

An article on Wired yesterday alerted me to something I’ve been waiting for for a long time. High Quality H.264 videos on YouTube. [Update: YouTube have now announced a widescreen player.] Medium quality stereo H.264 vidoes have been available for some time using the fmt=18 trick [example] and you can even download them with an easy-to-use Firefox toolbar add-on but the availability of the 1280×720, possibly original-format versions, is a great step forward and with a tweak of that download toolbar, you can download them too which allows netbooks and […]