Size definitely matters for MIDs, what with the whole
Mobile moniker in there, but features matter too, and USI's upcoming MID-160 offers most of the important ones. It's got a 5-inch 800 x 480 touch-screen, connectivity over 802.11b/g as well as HSDPA and
WiMAX, plus GPS and Bluetooth, served by an (unspecified) Atom processor and 512MB of RAM with 8GB of flash storage (expandable via microSD). All that's delivered in a package just 15mm in thickness and 250 grams in heft, but sadly missing one thing we tend to use a lot when surfing the web: a keyboard. Nokia's
N810 WiMAX Edition has one, plus most of the other goods (lacking the Atom and 8GB of storage), yet manages to be just as thin and even lighter -- not to mention
available right now. By contrast we have no information on availability or price for MID's sleek, but perhaps unnecessary, successor to the
M-150.
posted Oct 23rd 2008 8:34AM
I'd like to this this product in action...
Hurrying to be first? That deserve a little click on the red button.
No, wasn't hurrying at all. Simply a genuine grammar mistake. I have no desire to be first posting a comment, i just happened to be first that time.
@Alexandre
"That deserve a little click on the red button."
Hurrying to leave a smart ass comment? That deserves a little click on the red button.
I'd also like english lessons...
Would this have a USB port? or do any MID's have a USB port?
yeah it should. probably on the left hand side. all mids have usb ports.
The Nokia Internet Tablets can host USB devices, but practically they are incredibly clunky to set up and use.
Thanks:
Anyone know of the smallest MID/Pocketable that can handle 2 USB inputs then? I'm trying to dump images from a CF/SDHC reader to and external drive on the fly with the smallest lightest (think OQO- but smaller?!) machine I can find...
Why cant we have a N810 + Atom yet? Damn you Intel! DAMN YOOUUUU!!!
It's a cool looking piece, I'll give it that.
(Lets see what it does.)
I owned a Nokia N810...briefly.
If it had an Atom processor I might STILL own one.
I ditched it for a netbook and didn't look back.
Do this thing properly and you could have a hit.
512mb ram seems vastly limited to basic functionality. even 1gb would grant much greater flexability, the last thing I need is my MID to slow down in mid use
512mb should be fine. Think back to the days leading up to the release of Vista, where 1gig of ram was a minimum requirement. We all thought it was nuts to require that much as a minimum. XP runs quite nicely on 512mb, especially when it's on a machine like this that won't be doing any heavy lifting or extreme multitasking.
In fact, I just googled the XP min requirments and apparently it recommends 128mb but only requires 64mb (with limited functionality).
Don't be stingy now.
Let's be adults about this and put 2GB in the thing.
We all know it's what we want.
"the last thing I need is my MID to slow down in mid use"
I see what you did there...
Also, 2gb would be great, but maybe that would get the price too high
perhaps, but multitasking would be a bit limited. for instance loading, say, firefox and hulu to watch some semi-highdef might get this thing to start stuttering during playback, and with such a nice screen that is a bit of a disappointment-- but who knows, it may be smooth..all in all though, it sounds like an awesome mid, I just personally would want 1gb :p
It may not be perfect yet but it seems like a mighty fine device to me.
I'm a firm beliver in the future possibilities of MID devices and if I never bought one until now is because they all sport either pathetic spec's or ridicolous prices (or often both).
But as soon as I will see one that will be able to substitute my smartphone/DMP, netbook and GPS reasonably well, I'll sure take it home with me.
1G RAM probably wont take too much more space, hopefully xp driver is out there... even 512M is worth putting xp on. it looks like there's some port at the bottom, maybe it would be used for a keyboard addon? I also want this to be a phone, dont like the idea about a separate wimax device.
Wake me when its running osx.
I think its best for everyone if you keep sleeping ;)
"perhaps, but multitasking would be a bit limited. for instance loading, say, firefox and hulu to watch some semi-highdef might get this thing to start stuttering during playback, and with such a nice screen that is a bit of a disappointment-- but who knows, it may be smooth..all in all though, it sounds like an awesome mid, I just personally would want 1gb :p"
My wife's PC has 502MB of ram (10MB is allocated to integrated graphics) running WinXP and I can run Firefox or Chrome with 7 or 8 tabs open while also watching anything Hulu has to offer with no problems. I can't imagine needing to multitask more than that on a MID.
n810 lacks 3g, and has infamously slow processing on its ARM processor. This device looks way nicer than the Aigo though, which looks too plastic-ish.
So, where's the Gigabyte m528 already :(
If only the N810 had a HSPA edition. These people at least got it right in terms of "deliver a WWAN option that people can actually use outside of a niche markets". Now if it just had a keyboard...
Any videos demonstrating this thing?
Neither summary nor article mention OS.
No keyboard? Useless!