C-motech Mangrove – Best Windows Mobile device/MID ever?

Here is a MID from C-Motech that comes with the mighty 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. It is powered by Windows Mobile 6.5. The most interesting thing about this MID is its 7-inch display that has WVGA (800×480) resolution (which is the maximum a Windows Mobile device supports).

C-Motech has worked hard to make this look as sleek as possible. Its huge 3200mAh battery should keep your device running for days. If that was not enough, there is an optional 4000mAh battery, which we think is way too much for a device that is based on ARM-platform. Despite its huge dimensions, it still manages to stay light at 300gm.

It is every single radio that you can imagine: 3G, WiMax, WiFi and GPS. For storage, you get 512MB and for running apps, there is 256MB RAM, which is more than enough for any Windows Mobile application out there.

Nokia N900 being tested in Helsinki

According to thenokiablog.com, the recently unveiled Nokia’s Internet tablet, the N900 is being tested in Helsinki. Nokia’s services sales manager, Chanse Arrington, is testing N900′s apps (like Bounce, Twitter apps etc) before it is officially launched. Oddly, Nokia still believes that there flagship device is still Nokia N97, which they think is “more mass consumer friendly” than the Nokia N900.

“It’s not a hard concept. It won’t be positioned as a phone, but will be positioned as able to make phone calls,” he said

Commentary: This is weird. We fully agree with the fact that Nokia N97 is more consumer friendly, but that does not makes it the flagship device. The Nokia N900 runs better, more sophisticated OS whereas the Nokia N97 runs old Symbian OS for which I should rather not go into details. The Nokia N900 has bigger and better screen and is powerful enough for being a MID (Mobile Internet Device). Can you think of N97 as a MID? NO

READ our huge post about Nokia N900

Thinkfree Office suit for netbooks released

Here is yet-another-office-suit for your netbook, this time coming from Thinkfree. Just like Corel Home Office suit, the Thinkfree Office suit also gives you the ability to view and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint files. It is optimized to run on 1024 x 600, which is the most common resolution in netbooks. It needs just 256MB RAM to run.

To make the overall package attractive, Thinkfree is also giving away free 2GB of online storage to its customers. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac for a price of just $24.95

ThinkFree Mobile Netbook edition is designed to help you manage and sync all your documents easily. It allows you to upload documents to your netbook and share them with all your PCs, office software and operating systems whenever you need to edit or create. laptop, mobile internet device, netbook or desktop PC.
Office 2.0 and beyond. ThinkFree Mobile Netbook edition is a modern productivity suite that comes with enhanced features. You’ll never go back to using a traditional office suite again.

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Nokia N900 coming – Nokia Tablets are not dead!

Nokia is soon going to release Nokia N900, a MID (Mobile Internet Device) running Maemo OS. It is going to be equipped with WVGA display, 32-48GB storage memory, a 5MP auto-focus camera with flash (!). It will hit European retailers in the month of July.

Although, we are not huge fans of devices, which do not run Desktop OS like XP or Ubuntu, but we are happy to know that Nokia has not completely forgotten its loyal Tablet fans. Also, it is great that Nokia is bumping up the storage memory to 32GB, which will allow the users to store a lot of data, but the overall package could have become better if they had decided to bump up the resolution to something like 1024 x 600. WVGA (800 x 480) is commonly found in HTC Phones and MIDs need to have some sort of edge over the phones.

HTC TOUCH HD as a Mobile Internet Device (MID)- Review

This time we are going to review it from a different perspective – AS A MOBILE INTERNET DEVICE. If you have been following the windows mobile scene from the past couple of years, you must have observed that the display size of the mobile phones has decreased in size over the years. Whether we all like it or not, but it was the iPhone that brought the big screen to attention to the mobile phone manufactures.