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shin shan!

battery life is alright.]]>Apr 29th 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/
Intel's Moblin looks very promising, but I wonder if the mainstream consumer will bite...]]>Apr 29th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/
Everybody wants an operating system that you can load your own familiar applications on (yes, windows applications). When you hear in the news about the new browser, you want to download it and play with it. When you want to put iTunes, you can do that. All the IM utilities, etc, etc...

What you're suggesting won't allow any of this (sure there's alternative software for many of this, but most folks don't want to be "alternative")

It's VERY SIMPLE... really...

so NO to you.]]>Apr 29th 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/
A picture says a thousand words:

http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/windows_apps_on_ubuntu_.png

Your argument is invalid.


No "alternative software", and the skype is not logged in because I don't have a skype-account, and I don't feel like making one just to prove a point. All of these program were run on a Ubuntu 8.04 with wine 1.1.19 and some extras installed with winetricks.


(For you unable to view images, or to afraid to click links, the above image is of a Ubuntu desktop with Windows Live Messenger, Spotify, Google Chrome, Itunes and Skype running]]>Apr 29th 2009 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/]]>Apr 29th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/
My Mini 9 is as small as I'm comfortable going for any kind of serious tech blog commenting.]]>Apr 29th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/May 14th 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/It's handy to keep in mind because once the inevitable flaw is exposed you know what's what and if a device doesn't seem to have a big flaw it means you are poorly informed about it, or people are lying to you, because a device WILL have a big flaw.
The interesting thing is that it is very often actually easy to fix and you wonder why it has the flaw. Perhaps you need to be part of some secret society to be told why.
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It's not possible to put a 3.5mm jack onto a device if you want to keep it thin. Make it too thick and people will complain. Similarly it is not possible to make a tiny product with a great battery life. Give it a battery that lasts 12 hours and people will complain that it weighs a tonne and looks like a brick.

Personally, I'm not sure why everyone on here is obsessed by 3.5mm headphone jacks when it would mean your device is bigger and can only support one button on the remote.

If you want 4 buttons and a volume dial that controls the devices volume (rather than being completely independent) then it is impossible to do this without resorting to a propitiatory connector of some sort.]]>Apr 30th 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/]]>Apr 30th 2009 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/]]>Apr 29th 2009 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 30th 2009 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/
I love the concept though... a full fledged computer the size of a Jornada 690 (if anybody still remembers what those were)... I'd get one just for the gadget factor...

It's the right concept, just executed all wrong... It must have usb (without adapters), it must have a headphone jack, and it must be made super-duper well...]]>Apr 29th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/umids-m1-gets-reviewed-tiny-and-functional-but-far-from-perfe/Apr 29th 2009 8:43PM