While everybody else will be doing crazy tours over different countries I will take a look on how to be productive with these little gadgets – and try to discover if they actually can make my life way easier when I am on the road. This includes on the road posting of pictures, mailing, podcasting and of course twittering – as this is what I need most desperately all the time! Any suggestion you are having, I’d be happy to get your suggestions! Only restriction: it has to be running […]

The first of the MIDs are arriving at the doors of MID Moves doorsteps and one of the first to get attention is the OQO 2+ with it’s OLED screen and 1.8Ghz Atom CPU. Jenn has pushed out some benchmarks already and you can instantly see the advantage over lower-clocked Atom CPUs. In fact, that ALU figure is higher than I expected. Disk results there look fairly average so I’m wondering if Jenn has the HDD version. Actually I’m hoping she has the HDD version! As I type, Jenn is […]

Just unveiled last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the OQO Model 2+ is being touted by its maker as “faster, brighter, and smarter” than its predecessor. Though cosmetically identical to 2007’s Model 02, the 2+ earns the “plus” in its name from a stunningly saturated OLED touchscreen, 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor, 2GB of RAM, and integrated mobile broadband.

Since the MID Moves tour couldn’t happen without the Mobile Internet Devices themselves, I thought I’d take a moment to share some photos from an “event” that has become something of a ritual among tech blogs: the unboxing. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard the term before. It’s exactly what it sounds like and you only need to see one to go from being an unboxing novice to an unboxing expert. If you’re uneasy about jumping into the ceremony unprepared, the backstory and sequence of events leading to my unboxing […]

A great podcast (oops, even if I do say so myself!) covering the MID, ultra mobile PC and Netbook news from CES. A good roundup covering a lot of devices. Our raw show notes below… Pegatron Netbook – Freescale. 8 VIA Nano. Dr Mobile. 11.6″ and 8.9″ Vaio P OQO 2+ Dell Mini 10. Silverthorne. Edge-to-edge. 1.2kilos 1000 HDN Optical drive. Bluray. New CPU, new Chipset. Video-focused. ASUS Eee PC T91 T101H Convertible. HP 2140 Viliv S7, X70 UMID MIO ‘MID’. ARM. BYD Venus MID on the Intel stand. No […]

I think it’s fair to say that if you use a smartphone like a MID, it isn’t going to last long. My N82 lasts for about three hours; less if I’m using 3G. The iPhone, about 4 hours under heavy use and the Android-based G1 seems to be even worse. The fact is that radios and processing take energy and although your smartphone will sit doing nothing for days on end, once you start using it connected over Wifi or 3G, the clock starts ticking. There are ways around the […]

I took a walk to the horses this afternoon; a live media-walk for MIDMoves to test out some geographically-tagged capabilities on the big Web thing. Tracking is nothing new. Location-based tweets and near-live video posts are nothing new. Putting it all together in a media-rich way and being able to show it live is something different though. It highlights the difference between a smartphone and a PC-based MID or UMPC. There’s just no way you can tie all the components together and post-process it into a presentation like this with […]

At CES 09, Engadget managed to get some hands on time with the recently announced Dell Inspiron Mini 10, which I am looking forward to. I see now that the mouse buttons are built into the trackpad which adds another unique item to this netbook’s list of features. Engadget had this to say about the Mini 10: “…much nicer looking than the Mini 9, and more compact than the Mini 12. No wonder Dell’s calling it a “perfect 10.” The multitouch trackpad is really similar to the one on the […]