Kohjinsha PA Series – This is what Kohjinsha PM MID should have been!

Last month, Kohjinsha launched a rebranded UMID M1 Mbook called PM series, that too with lower specs. Now, they have unveiled a device of their own: PA series. Sporting a 4.8-inch display with 1024 x 600 resolution, it has nice touch screen display and comes with an Intel Atom Z520 processor that runs at a clock speed of 1.3GHz. It has 32GB SSD for storage and 512MB RAM for running apps. It runs Windows XP Home SP3 and weighs 400gm. It has a Micro-SD port, TV tuner, WiFi (b/g) and BT 2.0 + EDR. Kohjinsha claims that it has battery life of 7.5 hours, although we are a bit skeptical about those figures.

512MB RAM in year 2009. What is Kohjinsha thinking anyway?

Kohjinsha PM MID (UMID M1) compared to Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker

PCwatch has compared two of the recently unveiled MIDs, Kohjinsha PM MID and Sharp’s PC-Z1 NetWalker. The Sharp PC-Z1 Netwalker is longer than the Kohjinsha, but that allowed Sharp to fit in a bigger keyboard than Kohjinsha PM MID. Sharp Netwalker has slightly wider buttons and has six row of function keys.

Kohjinsha PM MID relies solely on touch screen for navigation whereas the Sharp has managed to fit in a optical mouse. Sharp Netwalker MID has better battery life which is very important for such a small on-the-go device.

Both of these are not available officially in either US or EU

One very important thing that PCwatch forgot to mention: Kohjinsha PM MID is a x86-based device, which means that it can run almost any desktop OS (limited by storage memory). It comes installed with Windows XP, whereas the Sharp Netwalker has a non x86 hardware and runs Ubuntu