UMID M1 unboxed ahead of Australian launch

Still no US release in sight, but UMID's M1 has now set the course for the land down under in the not-too-distant future. Pocketables has managed to get its hands on a non-HSDPA retail version to take it through the unboxing and review motions. The pictures are a good reminder at just how tiny this thing is, especially compared to the jacket pocket fave Vaio P. Unfortunately, it's also got a rather awkward set of adapters for USB and what appears to be headphones, as seen in the picture above. Australian retailer Justek's got the unit available for pre-order now, but you might want to glance at that $930 to $1426 price range before you impulsively hit the "pre-order now" button.

Read - Unboxing
Read - Product page

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 9:13PM]

DO WANT

[bdav Posted Apr 27th 2009 9:14PM]

Wow - Amazingly small next to Vaio P - I hope they have some decent custom Windows / Linux build running on it to make it usable on such a small screen though - I would imagine vanilla windows to be near impossible.

[Evangelion Posted Apr 27th 2009 9:19PM]

I thought the title said UMD for some strange reason. O_o

[spasewalkr Posted Apr 27th 2009 9:34PM]

i dunno i hear that jimmy fallon disagrees with you about the jacket pocket vaio p thing ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 9:41PM]

Is it possible to update the PSP to read UMD's and send the data over its USB wire to a computer?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 9:44PM]

guaranteed to fail, nothing more can be said.

[BrandT Posted Apr 27th 2009 9:51PM]

I dislike how the Ctrl button isn't all the way on the left...freakin Fn needs to move over.

[Premature ejaculation man Posted Apr 27th 2009 9:51PM]

I'm hoping thats in AUD. But even still, way too expensive.

[copeys Posted Apr 27th 2009 11:10PM]

was that a pun at our currency's exchange rate?? lolz ;)

[Invisiblemoose Posted Apr 27th 2009 9:57PM]

Australian dollars I assume?

[Lando Calrissian Posted Apr 27th 2009 10:19PM]

This will surely be a bitch to type on, and they shrunk the spacebar to fit in an Internet Explorer key. Seriously, if you're tech savvy enough to buy something like this, then I doubt you'll be using IE.

[kisai Posted Apr 27th 2009 10:34PM]

Does it have a Firefox key somewhere?

[seamonkey420 Posted Apr 27th 2009 10:36PM]

yup.. just not interested at all.. seems the novelty of the uber small MIDs have worn off since they never make it past using for more than 2 weeks.

just my .02 on these, esp at that price point! oof!

[Avaviel Posted Apr 27th 2009 10:37PM]

headphone... converter? USB converter? There is no reason for this to be so! Why not have an audio jack and one USB, and include a USB hub?

[Gregorian Posted Apr 28th 2009 12:04AM]

The big lumpy things on the side spoil the whole idea of this being small and convenient.
Not good design at all.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 10:38PM]

Pssst. Australian websites use a currency called "Australian Dollars". Crazy I know. Anyway, $1426 AUD=$1019 USD & $930 AUD= $665 USD, according to my iPod.

[Invisiblemoose Posted Apr 28th 2009 12:04AM]

The great thing about a web-based publication is articles can be constantly updated and corrected. The unfortunate thing is nobody cares enough to bother...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 28th 2009 12:31AM]

As cool as it looks, I know that the first week of ownership would include me saying "oh shit" as I snap the adapter clear off.

Also, a tablet screen without the swivel/convert to tablet ability is a bit awkward to use.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 28th 2009 4:11AM]

Can you even type using two hands on that thing? So damn small.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 28th 2009 4:31AM]

NO pointing device. So its a NO GO for me

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 28th 2009 4:47AM]

There was a few of these on ebay not too long ago for AUD $750 with free intenational shipping