There has been a lot of discussion lately about the prospect of Android being employed full time as a netbook OS. It looks like Acer is taking one of the first big steps and officially stating that they will bring an Android running netbook to market in Q3 according to Acer’s head of IT products, Jim Wong. Acer has been showing an Acer Aspire One D250 [Portal page] around at Computex with Android as the OS. They are saying that this isn’t the actual product, but just a test platform. […]

Jkk has a short video from the show floor of Computex showing the DigiCube MIDPhone-50. As you might have guessed from the name, it is a MID that also functions as a phone. The unit has a sliding/tilting HTC Shift [Portal page] style form-factor and runs Windows XP. It also boasts 3G connectivity and full voice capability. An interesting idea, sure, but with 2 hours of battery life, I don’t think you’d be using the phone function of the device for much more than emergencies. In addition to the battery […]

The MiFi is my tip for Ultra Mobile Product of the Year and it’s finally available, SIM-unlocked

This just in from a meeting I had with Intel this evening. At the Ultra Mobility Event at Computex tomorrow, we’re going to see live demonstrations of 2 or 3 Moorestown devices. Clearly this is going to affect Menlow but it sounds like Intel have accelerated the Moorestown program. I don’t have any info as to whether Microsoft products will run on the platform so that will be one of my questions tomorrow. More information over at the MIDMoves project blog that I’m working on this week.

You’ve seen the Inventec Mediaphone, the Moorestown-based MID already but we’re in for an even better treat tomorrow. At about 2pm here in Taiwan, Intel will be showing 3 working Moorestown products running Moblin V2 and if all goes well you should see a video of me making a phone call from one to the other proving that Intel are entering the smartphone market. It’s hard to believe that the PC architecture can be optimised and enhanced to the point where it defines a new category of smartphones. In a […]

The Mediaphone, built by Inventec, is a working Moorestown-based voice-enabled MID/UMPC/Phone running Moblin V2. Click through for some images. MIDMoves has a vieo too.

Update: There will be a demonstration of 3 Moblin Smartphones tomorrow. These images were taken at the Moblin event at Computex. The phone was used to highlight the next step for Moblin MediaPhones. Voice-enabled internet and media-focused slates. This isn’t something you’ll be able to buy this year because it’s Moorestown based and that’s coming in 2010 but it is a working model (not demonstrated) running with Moblin 2 (I assume Moblin 2 with additions for touch and Moorestown because I don’t think the drivers and audio apps are baked […]

After all of the coverage that the Viliv S5 [Portal page] has seen lately, it is about time that its bigger brother, the Viliv X70, gets a little bit of face time. James Kendrick from jkOnTheRun has a nice video showing off the brand new Viliv X70. The X70 as I mentioned is a Viliv ultra mobile PC that is larger than the Viliv S5. The X70 has a 7 inch screen as compared to the S5’s 4.8 inch screen. While the sizes are different, the internals are very similar, […]