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Intel Mobile Internet Devices Coming

Re: linux based UMPCs by intel

Where can I buy one?

Intel's MID UMPCs Maemo?

Interesting news and pictures from engadget.com today about Intel's MID UMPCs.
Looks to me to be running a version of MAEMO OS. I'm an APPLE fanboy through and through and cant wait to get my hands on the iphone but still long for a device that has a sceen 6-7 inches and APPLE's intergration and ease of use. Thats why i bought a 770 in the first place ( no MicroSoft inside ).

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/i...a-hello-linux/

Re: linux based UMPCs by intel

More links... and it will be using the Hildon UI! Due next year.

http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/ne...hp?storyid=478
http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/ne...hp?storyid=480
http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/ne...hp?storyid=481
http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/ne...hp?storyid=484
http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/ne...hp?storyid=486
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardwar...9274887,00.htm

Apparently it will also use a "Mozilla based" browser. Looks like Asian languages will be supported - Intel aren't stupid, but Nokias lack of Asian support suggests they are.

What's the betting the Intel device will have working 3D and OpenGL, and lots of other good hardware stuff that Nokia didn't bother to activate despite being present in the N800?

Wake up Nokia...

Intel Mobile Internet Devices Coming

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It seems like Intel is announcing later this week their own flavor of internet tablets they are calling MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices). From a presentation document (PDF) Intel has officially released, what we can gather are the following:    Foundation leverages Gnome Linux Desktop Technology, GTK+, DBUS, GConf     Intel developed user interface called 'Master User Interface'     New Linux distro called RedFlag MIDINUX (v1.0 to be available sometime May)     Support of the Intel 915 chipsets     Finger-friendly     Applications  &n bsp; Browser, news reader, IM, VoIP     Media player, audio recorder, image viewer, camera     GPS, email, PDF reader, Bluetooth    18 second boot time, 3.2 second resume time
From the screenshots, the MIDs look like Maemo with Intel's customized front-end Master User Interface (MUI), finger freindly, application launcher. It is not yet clear how far Maemo and RedFlag MIDINUX will inter-operate but you can be sure that both platforms will be covered in Internet Tablet Talk. A lot more images after the jump. MID Screenshots:

Read the full article.

Re: Intel's MID UMPCs Maemo?

Re: Intel Mobile Internet Devices Coming

FYI, Intel MID threads have been merged.

Re: Intel Mobile Internet Devices Coming

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Originally Posted by Reggie (Post 44482)

FYI, Intel MID threads have been merged.

yes, thanks, I've typed long reply and when submitting I saw invalid thread id an everything was lost :-)

What I wanted to say is - let's see how they can match power efficiency of ARM platform. They talk about boot and suspend/resume time a lot. That means they either don't get it or they know their devices won't last long in always on mode. Also it will take year of two until we see real devices so I wouldn't hold my breath.

But x86 compatibility and PC-like hardware would be nice and would solve some problems of current Internet Tablets.

Re: Intel Mobile Internet Devices Coming

That's a year for Nokia to start delivering on the software quality and innovating in the hardware again - the N800 hardware (particularly the graphics performance) seems to be a step back from the 770. The extra memory and CPU performance is very nice, but so much in the SoC isn't actually used.

The N900 needs to see improved graphics performance and 3D support would be a good idea. Dumping Opera in favour of Minimo/Mozilla doesn't sound like a bad idea either.

Battery life needs to be improved - a larger capacity battery would be welcome as it's unlikely to come via any other route.

I fully expect the Intel device to be heavier (huge battery) and more expensive (dual core cpus?!) but I also hope it will give Nokia a kick up the @rse.

Intel offering something better?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/i...a-hello-linux/

According to the article it looks like intel is going to offer the umpc without vista and instead using linux. Some of the pictures in the gallery look alot like maemo.