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SD69 is offline SD69
2007-09-18 , 01:20
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#11
Originally Posted by Rebski View Post
Does that mean that we might start to see a diverse selection of apps becoming available?

If there is a unified MID platform then it would be worth spending time developing for?
No disrespect to Nokia as the innovator, but if Intel does their marketing with MIDs, the (sub)segment will take off! (Much as I hated being bombarded with "Intel Inside" and those tones, they worked wonders for Centrino.) But the pessimist in me says that eventually an exec at Intel will see MIDs as eating into their Centrino 2 Duo laptop sales and kill (or sell off) the project.
 
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2007-09-18 , 02:34
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Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
No disrespect to Nokia as the innovator, but if Intel does their marketing with MIDs, the (sub)segment will take off!...

Sure it will.

...and it won't have windows!

More and more I'm thinkin' Nokia's innovation is not so much the device but the OS these devices will use.

Every manufacturer is drooling over this "future" where everybody has a new type of device. A hell of a market to have just a slice of... and if everyone suddenly had the need to have another device, there will be plenty of pie to go around.

Microsoft should be running scared. How we interact with our data will change from the desk/laptop to one of these devices. With that, the preferred OS could change as well.
Before long people may begin to drop the desk/laptop altogether. Much like landlines are being dropped by cell customers who no longer see the need for both services.

Is LinTel the future of Maemo?
 
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2007-09-18 , 05:17
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#13
Have you checked out this benq running red flag/midinux - look just a bit bigger than the n800:

http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/ne...hp?storyid=906

wow.....if this is where things are headed, i can't wait for the next nokia IT...
 
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2007-09-18 , 05:20
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Intel MID will run under Ubuntu UME but ubuntu UME is just a debian with the hildon framework ... like nokia. The two os is the same things. It s a linux with same framework. The first for x86, and the last for ARM.
 
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2007-09-18 , 11:38
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Does the benq come with a matching utility belt?
 
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2007-09-18 , 16:28
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more correctly the MID's will be running any distro that fulfills this set of requirements:
http://www.moblin.org/documentation_...uirements.html
 
Rebski is offline Rebski
2007-09-19 , 19:29
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Check out the very brief glimpse of a MID Gen2 device right at the end of the video interview
http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/ne...hp?storyid=921
 
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2007-09-20 , 02:56
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That Gen 2 device is niiiiice... Nokia design department take note.
 
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2007-09-20 , 03:04
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Intel may really scratch an itch every geek is starting to feel, I think

A finger-driven, desktop-level, Linux PC that can *almost* fit in your pocket.

I want one
 
Rebski is offline Rebski
2007-09-24 , 12:32
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#20
A bit more detail on one the forthcoming MID's

http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/ne...hp?storyid=931

What's not to like?
 
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