The UMID MBook was the MID that grabbed the most attention at SXSW and we look forward to getting hands-on with a retail version of this.

There are several upcoming “pre-OS inch solutions, but it looks like Presto will be one of the first out the door. The concept of a pre-OS is to be able to launch into a very quickly booting environment that offers key parts of a traditional computing experience, such as media playback and a web browser. Presto, like most, is based on Linux, and is said to load in 15 seconds. I’m downloading the beta now, which is free for the time being, but when released in full on April 13th, […]

SlashGear is reporting that Intel is working on a version of something called an SIMD accelerator that will help increase graphical performance on future mobile devices. There isn’t too much to go on with the small amount of information that Intel released, but apparently the SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) accelerator that they are working on uses 10x less power than current SIMD accelerators use, making the new SIMD accelerator practical for use in handheld devices, particularly MIDs, as Intel mentions. The concept of Single Instruction, Multiple Data seems somewhat […]

Jenn from Pocketables.net shows us an N800-looking MID out of China that has an interesting portable dock. The dock says “MID Expansion inch on it, and seems to be just that. It snuggly fits to the bottom of the device and has a screen cover attached to it than can fold over the screen of the MID to protect it. The dock has it’s own a battery which means that attaching it to the MID does more than just add an additional headphone jack, ethernet, USB, and VGA out port, […]

Just a few weeks ago, Woot featured the Asus Eee 701 netbook on their Yahoo branded site, shopping.woot.com. Today they are back with more netbooks. The Asus Eee 900 is available from shopping.woot.com today for just $179, available in black or white. The refurbished unit has the following specs: 1024×600 8.9 inch screen 512MB of RAM 900MHz Celeron CPU 4GB of SSD storage Linux More detailed info can be found at the Eee 900’s Portal page. Head over to shopping.woot.com soon if you want to buy one, this deal will […]

The first beta of Mozilla’s mobile focused browser was recently released, and provided that it runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, I thought I’d give it a try on my Sony VAIO UX180 [Portal page]. I flipped the unit into portrait mode and recorded a quick demo of the action. I’m pretty impressed so far and I like the interface. They still have some work to do and it will be really interesting to see how good of a web experience you can have on a Linux powered device (like […]

So as I mention in the video, this was easier to explain with a video than writing it, so consider this a video post! How about you dear readers; what is your preference on hinge strength and what advantages does it offer?

We brought you some preliminary details about the SmartQ 5 MID a little while back, but didn’t have much to go on. Today we’ve found that the SmartQ 5 is indeed going to have a $132 price tag, though it may never end up coming officially to the US. The processor is also ARM as Chippy theorized based on the low cost. Apparently it will be ARMv7 specifically, which I believe throws it into the Cortex family. The device will be running Ubuntu. The lack of keyboard and non-customized-for-touchscreen OS […]