Giving MIDs a hard time is like gadget sport around here. The idea of a device that doesn't fit in the pocket but costs more than twice the price of a netbook is just too much to stomach as a general use device. But look at that MID up there... just look at it. That's the LG GW990 running Intel's future
Moorestown CPU. Granted, the pics were grabbed in a rush (of a device behind glass) while dodging security batons (the CES showfloor hasn't opened). But where the images fall short the specs amply pick up the slack: Moorestown CPU, 4.8-inch panoramic widescreen display, HD Video, 3D gaming, aGPS, WiFi, 1850mAh battery, digital compass, HSPA radio, and 5 megapixel camera. And if we're not mistaken, that's an earpiece at the top of the front face that should allow this to be used as a telephone (VoIP presumably). There's also an interesting 3-panel view when held in landscape mode giving you independent access to 3 segmented displays (like calendar, media player, and GPS maps) all at the same time. Man, this could be the MID we've been waiting for ever since we first saw that
sexy Silverthorne prototype. But lets wait for the price and availability before getting too excited, eh?
posted January 6th 2010 7:01PM
I am seeing the future of mobile devices.
It pleases me.
.......wow
It's a war -Intel vs Arm. Give us a video demo and lets see what the big I has got...
Me want. Now.
I'd love to get excited about this, but it just feel like I'd be setting myself up for disappointment down the road. It'd really be nice to have something like this as a plaything.
What price will the market dictate for such devices?
What's the use of such a relatively powerful CPU if the phone runs some buggy proprietary OS, that will be neglected after 2 or 3 (still quite buggy) updates and that will never see a significant choice of apps?
@inquisitor
On that short feature list there is nowhere written that it is a phone. Which doesn't mean i wouldn't hope it to be.
Actually comparing the atom cpu with a snapdragon should be a tad difficult but interesting anyway. I don't think at all the atom chipset would fail in terms of power for mobile phones. In fact, i hope that the next iPhone will sport it, somehow this makes me feel funny, you know, as a geek.
@pinkku
If that is not intended to be a phone and it does run something proprietary it's getting even worse.
That remembers me of the first horrible two days with my first computer, a Pentium 60MHz with OS/2 preinstalled, which meant I couldn't do anything with it (especially not gaming) except for using the preinstalled tools, but wait for a friend to come over with 10+ 3,5" discs to install DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1.
@inquisitor
I totally agree with you. I have written that i would hope they gave this nice looking device a true phone function. But my experience tells me they didn't learn at all in the past 3 years.
I don't know why almost no company didn't understand that the plain hardware feature list doesn't count anymore. It's the overall experience what counts, at least for me and a couple millions other consumers. A proprietary half loved OS nr.3000 sure wont help them competing with future android and apple mobile(-phone) products below the formfactor of a netbook and above the functionality of a kindle or generic mp3 player.
Seriously whats wrong with just taking Android 2.0 or 2.1, pushing 4 updates per year over a period of at least 2 years? Thats what hinders me on jumping on a Nexus the most, i hope google knows better than HTC.
Well, a lot of rant, but i cant sleep somehow...
what OS is that? winmo 6.5?
@qrius
As usual with LG it's some proprietary mess coded within 8 weeks or so. Expect low functionality, daily crashes and no apps.
@qrius
Probably some flavor of linix, this thing is more likely to run Windows 7 than WinMo 6.5.
@jon @inquisitor - beautiful hardware on crappy software. Great idea LG.
@qrius
Hopefully Intel will talk about Moorestown tomorrow, and we'll have a better idea of it's capabilities.
*that* is the form factor for future slates. Something truly mobile that, albeit relatively big, is still roughly at a mobile phone size. Easy to use on the go (relatively) and easily portable without lugging around a bag of kit.
The iPad and all other "Tablets/Slates" represent nothing more than items trying to find its market. Mobility is the future; not portability.
This is where android needs to be going. Cheap, LG phone with everything on it.
Proprietary OS + no HD video output or input = lame.
Aren't these tablet devices that everyone is making a big fuss over technically MIDs?
I really think this is lame. VOIP thats it? What's the market for such devices. Lets not call it a MID.. its just an Internet Tablet. Get the Nokia N810 instead for a fraction of the cost. Seriously such small factor devices with so much horsepower is just a waste of time and money. Its state-of-the-art and its exciting, but will end up on your media console unused once explored. How many of you really enjoy the Apple Touch? I wouldnt want to watch a movie on a 5x3 screen.. I have a 52" LCD to do that. Give me a break.
It's LG... Like I care what they make... Please... Their stuff always looks great on paper but once on the hand it's another story. Ya know like meeting a beautiful woman who makes your heart leap. Then she smiles and has teeth like biology skeleton you had in classes at school.