Aigo debuts Maemo-based Walkshow NX7001 MID
By Donald Melanson 
posted May 13th 2010 2:49AM
posted May 13th 2010 2:49AM
We're not quite sure what's gotten into Aigo these days, but we're not about to try to stop 'em -- the company has just followed up its impressive-looking N700 Android tablet with this Maemo-based Walkshow NX7001 MID. While this one isn't quite as sleek as the Android tablet and has a few drawbacks (a resistive touchscreen, for starters), it is a Mameo-based MID, which isn't exactly all that common these days -- DIY jobs aside. The rest of the device's specs also look to be decent enough, if not necessarily all that impressive, including an 806MHz Marvell PXA310 processor, a 4.3-inch WVGA display, 128MB of RAM, built-in WiFi, 3G and GPS, dual cameras, and a microSD card slot for expansion. Still no word on a release date, but it looks like this one will set you back about $500.
want!,but i9000 is wanter
How well do Marvell CPUs perform compared to tegras or cortex CPUs?
@cherryboom
It's an MID and I wasn't asking you, asshole. None of your comments are even remotely intelligent.
@cherryboom
I understand not!
Double posting even with!
Shitzu!
@cherryboom
lolol. You are the poster child of Internet idiots. And besides the first-grade grammar mistakes, your actual statement is wrong. Performance very much matters, especially in a phone.
@n8equalsd : Those comments got so far from being fun.
About your question, usually you need to compare between to specific models. Marvell CPU vs Cortex is just like AMD Vs Intel. Anyway, in general Cortex A8 could be considered more advanced than Marvell. About nVidia Tegra(GPU???). I can't comment on it.
@n8equalsd
Marvell is a pretty old processor, and fairly weak.
A8 is pretty good, one of the most powerful cpu's On The Market (OMAP3, and structure of Snapdragon)
Tegra 1 runs on arm 11 cpu, so it is fairly weak, but it has many core dedicated to specific tasks, i.e. 3d, Gpu, Cpu, ect.
Tegra 2 is the best of the bunch. It runs a A9 processor, which is the next generation. that is more efficient and powerful than a8 and arm 11. It once again has multiple cores, and a great graphics performance. it is also available dual core, at, i believe, 1 ghz...
Once again, as ive said on similar comments, this isn't exact, because i don't know much about processors, but this is a fairly good aproximation...
Why all the resistive touchscreens? I thought capacitive killed resistive already.
To me, there is absolutely no reason to use resistive over capacitive. I hate having to use a stylus or fingernail to poke at squishy resistive touchscreens.
As for the rest of it, I like that Maemo is getting more attention these days, but I don't see the hardware here performing well with heavy multitasking. At the very least they could have given it 256mb of RAM.
@Shadowfury
Why not? I think we should have choices in both. I have a pre, and i can't tell you how many times I accidently hung up the phone by just BRUSHING the screen with my fingers. It's a good technology, but capacitive touchcreens are not perfect.
@smartmouth
Not perfect, sure, but I'd be willing to risk accidental contact with the on-screen controls to have multitouch, a hard glass screen, and not having to use a stylus or fingernail to poke the screen.
As for the problem with your Pre, I haven't encountered that with any capacitive touchscreen phones. Most of them have proximity sensors. Though not all of them work 100% of the time, they work most of the time from my experience.
Ideally, there would be two models, one with a resistive touchscreen and one with a capacitive touchscreen. That way the consumers could choose which they wanted.
@Shadowfury I'm wondering what's up with all the resistive touchscreen hate. It's a different type of touch screen, it's apples to oranges, to say one is better than the other is false. Also, you said "I hate having to use a stylus or fingernail.." you don't have to use those things.. a resistive touchscreen responds to any impression, which your finger tip can make just as well as anything else.
Capacitive = nicer for casual use for sure but they're less accurate and you can only use your fingers and strange sausage stylus (none of which are stylus-like in accuracy).
Resistive = Pinpoint accuracy and you have the option to use a stylus (Huge in cold whether areas and asian countries, cold whether because people wear gloves all the time, and asia because they have to draw out their language's symbols). Navigating around easy debian on my N900 would be a pain to say the least on a capacitive screen.
It's all about preference, clearly you and Engadget prefer one, but to say it's superior to the other is incorrect.
@futurerheza
Oh the irony....
maemo>android, sense>maemo
That looks like a horribly cheap KIRF... somebody needs a new industrial designer, hey, I'm available ha...
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That screen looks so small compared to the size of the device.
This doesn't make any sense, at least for the price. By the time it actually becomes available there will be much better devices out in the market. Even the open platform is no excuse against the dated technology it offers for a ridiculous price.
@cookiemawnstah
one word: KIRF
Looks like some cheap KIRF from the markets of Shenzhen.
what f**king crappy UI！！！
The original Nokia N900 is cheaper(location depended) + having more features.
@Engadget, resistive? really a drawback? Come on for god sake you have become so MEMEMEMEMEMEEM. You are now ME LIKE ME WANT. Thats really so repetitive and boring...
There are many people favors resistive over crapacitive like Artists and many others.
you misspelled maemo on the second sentence, btw
@fernando sharp eyes!
"...it is a Mameo-based MID, which isn't..."
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Wow, $500 for a tiny resistive screen with no ecosystem, or $500 for a huge capacitive screen with iTunes and a gazillion apps... hmm, that's a tough one...