In the previous post I talked about my requirements and the three pieces of hardware that I would use to help me. To recap, here they are again. Requirements: Location. Where am I now? Exactly? Turn-by-turn, step by step. Where do I need to go. How long will it take? Public transport. Where is it? When does it depart and arrive? Phototagging. Ensuring that my images are tagged with their location Live location tracking and networking. Allowing other people to view my location and to enable notifications when friends are […]

Engadget still haven’t sussed-out that neither the S7 or the Vaio P are netbooks… Also small is that keyboard, which is one of the most painful we’ve yet experienced on a netbook Given the size, it’s actually one of the best keyboards. Up there with the Everun Note and way better than the SC3. With 8hrs battery life, CPU options up to 1.8Ghz and a Windows XP option, expect this to win in a bang-per-buck comparison with the Sony and with a rotated, flipped screen, reading websites and RSS feeds […]

Looking for a PC solution for your mobile home? Perhaps an MP3 for that mobile disco business? Or perhaps just something for the kids? Plug in a USB keyboard on this one and you’re in business. Grab and go without worrying about knocks and spills.

With well over 50 geo-enabled web-based services available, plenty of dedicated PC and phone client software and a mountain of methods that will track and update your location, it has been very difficult for me to define a simple process that will help me to achieve want I want. Yes, i’m testing the limits here but that’s what MIDMoves is about. We want to get our hands dirty and find the limits. Here’s the list of what i’m trying to achieve. Location. Where am I now? Exactly? Turn-by-turn, step by […]

Someone leaked HTC’s roadmap for 2009, and among the low quality slide images was this one:   Looks pretty good, I like the glossy screen – it looks a bit like a digital picture frame. It’s hard to tell if the keyboard is the same capacitive one or if HTC is back to mechanical keys. Camera is still there, and there appear to be no buttons on the front. Regardless, we’ll be on the lookout for more “Thoth” info. Perhaps HTC shoved an Intel Atom in there? Ahh, one can […]

What do you do when the Dell Mini 9 [Product page] and Mini 12 just aren’t enough? Well the only logical thing to do is come out with the Mini 10. The Dell Mini 10, shown at CES, has (obviously enough) a 10″ screen. Something that immediately piques my interested is that the Mini 10 apparently won’t run the obligatory 1024×600 resolution, but instead use a properly formatted 16:9 aspect ratio screen with a 720p resolution (1280×720). Some other nice features include: Z530 Atom CPU (less typical than most netbooks) […]

The Sony VAIO P [Portal page] was a big deal at this year’s CES. Sony teased us with visions of a computer that would fit in our pocket. While the device is certainly small, I don’t think it is a realistic pocket machine (even the flash ad on sony.jp seems to agree). My three year old Sony VAIO UX [Portal page] is more pocketable, which is why I was somewhat baffled when they released the P which isn’t even close by comparison. Here are several pictures from Engadget China poking […]

You probably caught wind (corny and probably overused, I know) of MSI’s latest U120 [Portal page] netbook, but you may not have seen a prototype at CES with a glowing trackpad. I’m not quite sure who this is supposed to appeal to, but we can at least be happy knowing that, as far as I can tell, this isn’t actually part of the U120 yet. I’ve always hated superfluous LEDs on notebooks, and this light-up trackpad is taking it just one step to far. If they are going to make […]