You’ve read the theory, now hear the reality about how SSDs work together with modern netbooks and UMPCs. JKK has a bunch of SSD articles lined up this week in his sites ‘SSD Week.’ Testing, Q&A and from what I’ve heard, maybe a new product or two! SSD Week, all this week and JKKMobile.

The MID market is really starting to build up steam in and its fairing-up to be an exciting Q1 2009. Here’s the latest entrant under the ‘next-gen PMP’ banner as presented by Pocketables. With a possible ARM-11 core, this may not be the powerhouse required by many pro-mobile users and if the media experience isn’t up to scratch, it probably won’t compete well with the Archos 5G but it at least proves, again, that mobile devices are evolving towards a better mobile Internet experience. Read what Pocketables have uncovered here.

Following through behind the ARM / Ubuntu announcement last week is another shot in the direction of Intel’s MIDs. Adobe’s Flash 10, probably the most commonly used multimedia plug-in in the Web world and a significant part of the full web experience, is coming to the ARM architecture. Not only will you be seeing full Flash 10 support on the next generation of evolved smartphones and mobile Internet devices based on the ARM Cortex core which are starting to trickle in now via specialist devices such as the Archos 5, […]

Thanks to Mobilx.eu I’ve had the Aigo MID for a few weeks now. I put a fairly lengthy post up a few weeks ago explaining where this device fits in but now it’s time to give you an overview of it in action. Here’s the video, made with very little preparation so you get to see a few problems with the device too.

Just in time for the holidays: you could win yourself an impressive gadget package from Pocketables.net. The holiday prize package features one of the first MIDs to have real consumer availability, the Aigo P8860 [Portal page]. Take a look at Jenn’s review of the unit, and don’t miss ultra mobile PC Portal’s own coverage of the device. The Aigo P8860 is certainly the centerpiece of the prize package, but there are some other great accessories as well. The winner of the prize package will receive the following: Aigo P8860 MID […]

It is time for the third installment of the touchscreen friendly game series. Today I want to show you a game called Desktop Tower Defense: Desktop Tower Defense is quite obviously a "tower D" game. It is a free flash based game that is played directly inside the browser. It is available in English, German, Spanish, Italian, and French languages. The goal of the player is to prevent the enemies (called creeps) from crossing the map and reaching the other side. For every enemy that the player fails to destroy, […]

Just shown at the AMD 2008 Financial Analyst day are a few slides and details about the new mobile computing platform known as Yukon. It’s due for release in the first half of 2009 and will use a dual-core processor called Conesus. From the diagrams and the presentation being given as I write, I get the feeling that AMD are not aiming at the low-end of the netbook market but more at a fully-capable ultra portable notebook market. I guess we’re talking Windows-7 capable ultraportables with good graphics capabilities very […]

I’ll be honest with you. I’m not sure what value this has for potential UMPC, Netbook and MID customers but its fun to look at! It appears on the product overview page (which I’ve recently updated with more data columns and now has over 220 devices in it) and it shows rising and falling popularity relative to the top device. For example, the HP Mini was gaining on the Samsung NC10 when I generated the graph. The graph is updated daily. One tip: Click on the arrows and you see […]