Acer set to fill our lives with MID goodness in May

For Acer, the future is the MID, and for you, that future starts next month. In May the company will launch what is said to be a "full line" of mobile internet devices, following up on that patent application filed way back in January of 2009 (which came complete with the incredibly high-detail picture above). What the company is not saying is exactly what the nature of these MIDs will be, except than they will be rocking version 4.0 of the company's Shell UI. It's a new version of the layer that was applied over Windows Mobile on smartphones like the M900, going all Bob on us by trying to recreate a virtual office. At this point we don't know whether version 4.0 will still be built atop WinMo, but at least we won't have to wait long to find out.

[bob e Posted Apr 29th 2010 7:45AM]

Sweet

[mark29 Posted Apr 29th 2010 8:00AM]

Intrigued

[htd Posted Apr 29th 2010 8:15AM]

more details? form factor, spec, price?

[Oskiee Posted Apr 29th 2010 8:30AM]

@htd

one can assume that since there arent any on this post, even as links, there arent any period.

[whormongr Posted Apr 29th 2010 1:21PM]

@htd 24"x 36" and one million dollars bwahahahahah

[ChrisG Posted Apr 29th 2010 8:31AM]

I wish they'd stop dicking around with other stuff and focus on releasing their 1825-series convertibles instead.

[onlymyrailgun Posted Apr 29th 2010 2:55PM]

@ChrisG
1825 series... sounds like it's got some history behind it.

[Plazmic Flame Posted Apr 29th 2010 8:38AM]

I don't think a company of this size would be foolish enough to throw WinMo on a MID.... in 2010. Right?......RIGHT??!

[Schmich Posted Apr 29th 2010 10:13AM]

Acer? No thanks. If they cannot manufacture laptops right after I don't know how many years, I doubt they'll get their first generation MID right either! Customer service also sucks.