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tso 2009-01-10 22:18
Re: sub $500 MID coming to USA, watch out nokia
 
sounds like the giinii (or something) to me. 4.3 inch screen, android, wifi. only issue was a screen rez at itouch level...

SD69 2009-01-11 00:02
Re: sub $500 MID coming to USA, watch out nokia
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Voltron (Post 255703)
http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/01/us...ith-windows-xp

this was announced today by velocity micro. its the same comal mid / gigabyte m528 design but its going retail in the usa. for $500 I can see this selling very well especially with windows XP as most consumers are familiar with it. I think the rx-51 will need to be very special to compete with all these new pocket devices.
Windows XP on a 4.8 touchscreen with no navigation or pointing device or keyboard and just one "start" key?!?! That sounds very impractical, or am I missing something?

speculatrix 2009-01-11 00:26
Re: sub $500 MID coming to USA, watch out nokia
 
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Originally Posted by meizirkki (Post 255704)
Nah... atom = shitty battery life
the problem with atom, as anyone who's actually read anything about it, is the support chipset as they've basically been using modified desktop/laptop stuff . now that Poulsbo aka US15W chips are being used, expect the power figures to be much much better.

fyndvagen 2009-01-11 03:04
Re: sub $500 MID coming to USA, watch out nokia
 
It looks kind of nice. It weights a little bit more and is a little bit larger, but then again you gain preformance and 3G. I think it would be a pretty sweeet device and definitely something that could replace the tablet. Im pretty new to the tablet scene and still waiting for to buy my first tablet. So here is my issue, the nokia n810 seems to be replaced by the n900 in some time (God knows when). So what im doing now, is just waiting for nokia to get the n900 ready, but since they are taking forever, I am thinking of buying this one. Any one who share my thoughts or have an second opinion?

GeneralAntilles 2009-01-11 03:25
Re: sub $500 MID coming to USA, watch out nokia
 
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Originally Posted by speculatrix (Post 256317)
the problem with atom, as anyone who's actually read anything about it, is the support chipset as they've basically been using modified desktop/laptop stuff . now that Poulsbo aka US15W chips are being used, expect the power figures to be much much better.
Still nowhere near as good as ARM chips, though, especially at idle.

We might be able to talk when they start shipping SoC variants, but I highly doubt it.

sondjata 2009-01-11 04:09
Re: sub $500 MID coming to USA, watch out nokia
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by meizirkki (Post 255704)
Nah... atom = shitty battery life
heh...I already have shitty battery life.

meizirkki 2009-01-11 09:34
Re: sub $500 MID coming to USA, watch out nokia
 
arm minilaptops have been in the news but i would really like to see full sized (15inch) arm based laptops with 4 core and minimum 1gb of memory. I believe that day will come when those are in market... Now when Canonical is dealing with arm-devices.

tso 2009-01-11 09:37
Re: sub $500 MID coming to USA, watch out nokia
 
4 core? that would probably be cortex a9 based then.

maybe a year or two away, those...

vvaz 2009-01-11 09:52
Re: sub $500 MID coming to USA, watch out nokia
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by fyndvagen (Post 256337)
So here is my issue, the nokia n810 seems to be replaced by the n900 in some time (God knows when). So what im doing now, is just waiting for nokia to get the n900 ready, but since they are taking forever, I am thinking of buying this one. Any one who share my thoughts or have an second opinion?
Buy used N800 for peanuts to see if you like idea of Internet Tablets. Later buy N900 when it comes out.

Just my 2ec.

Lord Raiden 2009-01-11 14:24
Re: sub $500 MID coming to USA, watch out nokia
 
Here's pictures from my site of The Unit and The Posterboard explaining what it can do. Sorry for the really pathetic quality of the pics. I'm broke and my camera is uber cheap. (well, so am I, but that's beside the point. ;))

It's the SC4000, and after tinkering with it a bit, I think it's got the potential to really put the hurt on the n8xx. hehe. The only thing about it is the weird hybrid interface. It's like half iPhone, half NIT, which really isn't that bad, since it's got to be one of the easiest to navigate that I've seen. At least it was at first glance. The best part is, it's using the latest Linux and QT versions in the interface. :D


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