One of the first true Intel Atom MIDs is finally showing its face in the world. Actually the Aigo P8860 it’s showing its backside, profile and slide-out QWERTY keyboard thanks to fine coaching by video director Steve Paine. Don’t worry, the film is safe for all audiences… even with the gratuitous Bluetooth pairing scene. This was my first good look at the Aigo P8860 MID running Midinux and while there was plenty to be impressed with, I see a few things that need refining for sure.
There’s no question that a full-desktop type of environment in a pocketable package leaves you lusting. While the device comes with Coolfox, Steve has Firefox 3 installed and shows off how the full AJAX version of Google Reader works flawlessly. No need to run a mobile version, like I do on my iPhone for example, and that means little to no compromise. From my standpoint though, I currently don’t mind the compromise… in fact (continuing the example) the mobile version of Google Reader looks to perform a little faster on my current device. Hard to say from just a single video, of course.
All in all, I came away more impressed than disappointed because with more refining, a device like this could be very handy. It wouldn’t function as a full computer for me so I’d need to carry that, plus a phone, making for three devices on my person. That’s where I’m struggling with MIDs at the moment: without phone capabilities and not usable (for me anyway) as a full and productive computing environment, where do they fit?
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