http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/ Engadget Comments for Intel explains: MID vs. UMPC http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Mar 4th 2008 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/please god.
especially if you are going to post hate.

this article is discussing Ultra Mobile Pcs vs. Mobile Internet Devices (iphone is a MID with phone capabilities.) NOT IPHONE ALTERNATIVES

a lot of people are confused about the differences. (Ultra mobiles being, in layman's terms, a pocket sized laptop.)]]>Jan 10th 2008 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/
Ideas Apple iPhone borrowed:

1. Cell phone
2. Having internet on a handheld device
3. Having maps on a handheld device
4. Having a touchscreen on a phone (besides the Prada one, there were other touchscreen phones that had buttons)
5. Having a camera in a phone
6. Having a calendar on a phone., etc.
7. Having high resolution displays on phones
8. Detecting and automatically switching to landscape/portrait when the phone is turned (myOrigo had this)

Ok, these may be lame to the fanboys .. but the fact is Apple didn't invent cell phones. And some of the ideas already existed. Sorry to burst people's bubble on that.

However, Apple was first to contribute certain ease of use ideas (multi touch etc.).. no dispute about that.
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(1) So guys, I guess it's out of the question that this OS actually RUNS safari and isn't copying it.

(2) I don't believe Engadget makes mock-photos to use on their articles, so this has to be real.

(3) It can't be an iPhone, dumb-dumb; it's got Office capabilities!

(4) Microsoft needs to stop copying Apple. It's not as if both companies benefited themselves and the consumer by copying each other in the past, especially during the late 80's and early 90's. That's just boulder-dash.]]>Jan 11th 2008 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/]]>Jan 10th 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/
Interesting to note that both of these devices existed before all this UMPC MID TLA marketing jargon came about!]]>Jan 10th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/

(proud owner of an N800)]]>Jan 10th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/A good place for advice is http://internettablettalk.com,
helped me through alot it. I have the new 2008 OS, VNC, Pidgin, it's all good.
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Anyway, UMPCs were available before Vista was out anyway- so much for the "UMPCs run 'heavy' OSes."

Yeah, there will always be machines which cross boundaries (like the OQO- out before UMPCs, not really a tablet even if it does have stylus support (I think)).

Would taking a UMPC and putting a "lightweight" OS on it like linux (sounds like flamebait right there) make it a MID?

Not that it really matters- it just reminds me about the whole angst decades ago over calling the things either "laptops" or "notebooks" (likewise with "palmtops," "handhelds," "transportables," etc.)]]>Jan 10th 2008 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Mar 4th 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/hands-on-with-aigos-iphone-ripping-menlow-based-mid/]]>Jan 10th 2008 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/
My understanding thus far has been that an ultra-mobile-pc is one defined as a 'computer' which can fit into your pocket regardless of the OS or applications it runs.]]>Jan 10th 2008 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/
Don't get me wrong - I love the Eee and Cloudbook - but they're neither UMPCs nor MIDs... we need a new term just for them, although ultraportable laptops is good, except that for some reason, people have started calling 12.2" laptops 'ultraportable' when they're really not that much more portable than 13.1" ones.]]>Jan 10th 2008 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 14th 2008 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 11th 2008 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 11th 2008 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/
yes, the business environment does use excel and word and that sort of thing but that's not really the sort of thing that ANYONE wants to do on a pocketsized device whether pro or consumer. That is where full sized laptops come in because writing a quarterly report on something that size is going to be an exercise in misery...]]>Jan 10th 2008 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/Jan 10th 2008 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/
Looks like Intel just wants to be one of those knock off chinese units....]]>Jan 24th 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/intel-explains-mid-vs-umpc/
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that Intel guy seems to me a little bit... let's say off the track ;)
What's next? Someone is going to tell us what is an OS and what not?
Or this is a Smartphone and this is just a cell...?

geeez this is just god damn funny ;)


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