Comments on: MWC: Intel Takes on the Mobile Internet Device

By: Long View: As Devices Converge, Chip Vendors Girding For a Fight

Long View: As Devices Converge, Chip Vendors Girding For a Fight — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:18:30 +0000

[...] and better battery life. Between the smartphone and the notebooks is another family of gadget, the mobile Internet device, or MID. In many ways, the MID is still undefined. But netbooks were one of the fastest-growing sellers in [...]

By: McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Observations: Devices - February 21, 2009

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:29:19 +0000

[...] Intel Takes on the Mobile Internet Device [...]

By: Nvidia’s $99 Computer Still Needs a Carrier

Nvidia’s $99 Computer Still Needs a Carrier — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:16:45 +0000

[...] Stacey Higginbotham | Friday, February 20, 2009 | 5:15 PM PT | 0 comments At the Mobile World Congress trade show that wrapped up yesterday in Barcelona, the mobile and the PC world may have collided, but carriers still have the upper hand. Nvidia, for example, said it will use its Tegra chipset and Windows CE to create a mobile computing platform that could cost as little as $99. That’s pretty cool, but in talking with Nvidia’s Michael Rayfield, general manager of the mobile business unit, about the device I was struck by how far the divide between the carriers and the computer makers remain. [...]

By: Mobile Broadband: It’s Still Gonna Cost You

Mobile Broadband: It’s Still Gonna Cost You — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:35:37 +0000

[...] to buy (and use the web via) laptops, mobile Internet devices and/or some type of smartphone, they need to offer a price plan for data that doesn’t involve paying $45-$60 a month for 5GB a month on each [...]

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:07:41 +0000

Sorry, Stacey – missed that that was your post, not Om’s.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:01:12 +0000

OM – I find your spin on this interesting. Intel created the MID concept to combat the UMPC (and VIA). There have been a lot of announcements of MID devices, but almost everything is still “Next Year”. ARM and ATOM are getting close to equivalent computing power. ARM still has the lead on power consumption. Intel still has the computing power edge. What is new is the inclusion of voice on the MID platform. If Microsoft ever ports Windows to ARM then Intel will be in big trouble at the low end. But that would seriously damage Windows Mobile.

By: Pronostic Fotbal

Pronostic Fotbal — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:39:27 +0000

I seems that Motorola is loosing. Maybe that is why Macintosh company does not use Motorola chips anymore.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:57:01 +0000

Intel is pretty desperate. Starting this year, ARM vendors are going to eat Intel’s lunch not only in terms of being 10x better than Intel MIDs for compact devices, but especially for providing cheaper laptops running perfectly usable Ubuntu or Android Linux distributions and having much longer battery lives and weighting less. Also, especially, ARM laptops are not going to have any of the Intel/Microsoft imposed limitations on netbooks such as screen size, storage, ram, HD digital outputs to HDTVs, video inputs, disc drives and more.

ARM is about to eat Intel for lunch.

By: ramakrishna

ramakrishna — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:50:21 +0000

Technology is making the lives much simpler…we can image through the different stages..Computer of a room size, desktop, laptop, now Mobile……can things be even smaller than this in the near future…? got to wait and see

By: Francis Simisim

Francis Simisim — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:59:54 +0000

Interesting… technology will just become cheaper and cheaper and more powerful in the near future. Can’t wait for the product of this partnership.