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Mobile Internet Device

Dell Mini 5 Tablet Prototype

2010.01.28

Dell’s Mini 5 tablet prototype has a model number M01M. The 5-inch tablet sports a 800 x 480 pixel format in landscape, Android 1.6, a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, 5MP camera with dual LED flash and a front-facing camera. Next to the iPhone the M01M looks quite serious, in a very good way. [...]

Cowon W2: Windows 7 MID

2010.01.16

Cowon’s W2, a 4.8-inch MID running Windows 7, will be available January 25 in Korea for KRW599,000 (about US$534) to KRW739,000 (about US$659). The 4.8-inch LCD sports a 1024 x 600 pixel format. Other specs include: WiFi BG, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, Intel Atom running at 1.33GHz, 1GB RAM, TV-Out. The W2 looks nice but there is [...]

Zune HD: Powered by NVIDIA Tegra Processor

2009.08.17

Tegra Powered What is NVIDIA’s Tegra processor and why is it so important that Microsoft’s Zune HD has it? According to NVIDIA, Tegra is the brand for a family of “computers-on-a-chip” processors that “brings the power of advanced visual computing to a broad range of handheld and mobile platforms. Tegra enables intuitive user interfaces, advanced [...]

Apple iPAD, iTouch

2009.08.14

Borders, the bookstore, might be unto something. The word might being the imperative word. Engadget got word that in an online survey about the “Early Read Book Preview program” you get to a question that asks about “Digital Reading Devices” that includes the familiar: Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, Sony Book Reader, Plastic Logic Reader, Apple [...]

iriver D50N: Cute MID with 4.8″ LCD

2009.03.28

iriver D50N Specifications
Display: 4.8″ (12.19cm) TFT LCD
Pixel Format: 800 x 480
Storage: 16GB (internal), microSD (external)
Connectivity: WiFi BG
Other: QWERTY Keyboard
Battery: 16 hours (music playback), 8 hours (video playback)
Price: Around US$370

iriver’s D50N is cute. It’s an MID sporting a 4.8″ LCD with a 800 x 480 pixel format. The D50N has WiFi BG, a full QWERTY keyboard [...]

Samsung Mondi: SWD-M100 MID

2009.03.26

The world’s first handheld WiMAX device in the US. That’s according to Samsung. Samsung’s Mondi is a MID (Mobile Internet Device) and was formally called SWD-M100. Mondi will connect using Clearwire’s Mobile WiMAX network or just Clear. The OS? WinMo 6.1. Or 6.5. Not sure. As you can see from the picture above the Mondi [...]

CES 2009: iriver UNIT2-S

2009.01.08

iriver UNIT2-S Specifications
Display: 7″ Touch TFT LCD
Pixel Format: 800 x 480
Camera: 1.3MP CMOS
Speaker: 2.5W
Connectivity: USB 2.0 (host), 10/100Base-T Ethernet
Storage: SD Slot
iriver is showcasing a lot of cool products during CES 2009. The company is located in booth #7935 Central Hall. iriver has 4 network devices, 3 PMPs, 2 MPEG4 players, 2 MP3 players and a [...]

UMID Mobile Internet Device (MID): 4.8″ Touch LCD

2008.11.12

UMID Mobile Internet Device (MID) Specifications
Display: 4.8″ Touch TFT LCD
Pixel Format: 1024 x 600
CPU: 1.1 or 1.33GHz Intel Atom
RAM: 512MB or 1GB DDR2 533MHz
Webcam: 1.3MP
HDD: 8-32GB SSD
Connectivity: DMB, DVB-T, 1-Seg, Mini-USB, Micro-SD, USIM Card Slot
OS: Microsoft Windows XP (or Vista), Linux
Weight: 315g
Availability: 2009 

On November 11, 2008, UMID unveiled its Mobile Internet Device (MID) during the [...]

Lenovo IdeaPad U8: 4.8″ Mobile Internet Device

2008.08.18

Lenovo IdeaPad U8 Specifications
Display: 4.8″ Wide TFT LCD with Touch
Pixel format:
Webcam: Dual Cameras
CPU: 800MHz Intel Silverthorn-class Atom Z500
RAM: Up to 2GB
Storage: 6GB Flash
Connectivity: China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB), WiFi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth, GPS, EDGE, TD-SCDMA 3G (China), WiMAX (?), USB
Battery: 5 hours
Dimensions: 173 x 84 x 21mm
Weight: 350g (10.6oz)