EviGroup Paddle looks nice; sports crazy price tag

EviGroup will soon be launching their very own Atom-powered tablet into the market called the Paddle. We don’t have the full specs yet, but it looks pretty good to us for sure, almost at par with the handsome hunk, iPad. Now, here is the absurd part – they have announced that it is going to retail for 699 Euros which rounds off to around $930. Well, here is our suggestion – do something about that price, otherwise, it will be a mere footnote of history

COWON to launch its first MID – That too ATOM-based!

COWON, a popular PMP maker, is going to launch its first MID, W2. The main highlight of this MID is that it will use Intel Atom processor.

It will also sport built-in bluetooth 2.0+EDR, WiFi and of course, high quality music and video playback.

Commentary: Using Atom processor gives the users and manufacture the option to use Desktop OS on a MID which means that we may see Cowon with Windows 7. Windows 7 has proved that it can run pretty nicely on hardware that does not have a lot of muscle.

Also, Atom processors are much more powerful than ARM processors that are mostly used in the MIDs. However, battery life does get a bit of hit in case of Atom-powered devices compared to ARM-processors, but still, Atom processors like entry-level Z-series Atom processors are considered very power-frugal.

So, using Atom processor may not be a bad deal at all for the consumers as-well-as for the manufacture

BenQ launches MID running Windows XP

BenQ has launched an Intel-Atom based MID in Taiwan. Since the MID is based on x86 platform, it is able to run Windows XP pretty nicely. The BenQ comes with an 4.8-inch display and will retail around $424 (NT$13,990). It is also being offered by a Taiwanese telecom service “FET” at $57 with a 3 year contract in which you will be able to enjoy the 3.5G (WiMax) speeds too.

According to BenQ’s general manager (Taiwan), they also have 4.5-inch MID in the tunnel that will be released in year 2010.

Viliv X70 – another Atom Powered MID [MID]

Atom powered MIDs seem to be on the rage now! Viliv has unveiled another MID based on Atom platform. It appears that most of the companies are now jumping from Arm-based architecture to Atom-based architecture. It comes with Intel Atom Silverthorne (Z520) processor clocked at 1.33GHz and a 7-inch WSVGA display (1024 x 600). Although, [...]