Pocketables has coverage of a new MID called the LonMID M100.

It's like a tiny convertible tablet/swivel screen device (sort of like the HTC Universal). Only, it appears to be two devices in one: an Atom based MID, and a GSM phone.

I wonder about the link between the phone side and the MID side... if you can automatically tether between them, for example.

Also makes me think about the possibility of running Mer or Android on it (it supposedly comes with XP, but is fully complaint with Intel's original MID definition so should be able to run midinux ... so there's hope for other linuxes).

I would buy one asap... and I'm in love with it even if it's bulky. The 9000i Communicator proud owner in me *screams*!

Yeah, it looks uber-sexy. 5 row keyboard. Lots of connectors. But that doesn't mean it's perfect (I don't see a video out on it, would be nice if you could upgrade it to 2GB of RAM, and it would be nice to see a dpad and game buttons on either side of the screen).

I still want to know what vendor supported OS options it has for the MID side. And I also want to know the details on the phone side (CPU, RAM, storage, phone OS, etc.).

Actually, reading the google translation of the chinese page, I think I misunderstood what Pocketables was saying. It's not "two devcies, a MID and a phone, sharing 1 chasis", it's that they've got 2 displays on 1 device, and they've added the phone functionality to midinux.

(pocketables seemed to imply it had XP with support for midinux, but the chinese page seems to be saying it runs midinux, not XP)

So, that could be interesting. It would also mean that porting Mer to it might be a little more tricky (needing to support 2 displays, non-voip phone, and SMS/MMS messaging). But the chinese page also seems to be a little confused about whether it's a GSM or CDMA device. It says CDMA, but it has a SIM slot (RUIM slot then?). Or maybe Google's translator mistook it for WCDMA. I dunno.

technically, cdma2k can do sim, its just rarely used.

Update: http://www.pocketables.net/2009/06/l...-official.html

The OS is midinux ... so hopefully it could run Ubuntu-MID or Mer, as well.

I'd love to see something like that from Nokia, with Maemo ... the RX-71 maybe? :-)

meh, something tells me the choice of midinux means its aiming to use it as a "featurephone" firmware rather then a full scale os...

still, with a atom under the cover, that may be hard to pull off over time, as i suspect there is a large group of people out there itching to run anything from windows to osx on it, because they potentially can...