Asus Transformer Prime not with Ice Cream Sandwich

Ice Cream Sandwich is the newest operating system. It is to bridge the os of smartphones and tablets. The first smartphone running this OS is Samsung Galaxy Nexus, but we have yet to see a tablet sporting Ice Cream Sandwich OS. Motorola announced that their new XOOM 2 will have Ice Cream Sandwich. Asus claimed that [...]

Asus Eee Pad Slider pre-order

The Asus Eee Pad Slider is powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and runs Android 3.1 Honeycomb OS. The 10.1-inch IPS touch display has nice a 1280 x 800 resolution. The keyboard slides out to give this tablet netbook its name. The Asus Eee Pad Slider has two cameras [...]

Asus Eee Pad Slider release UK and Germany

We have posted on Android 3.0 Honeycomb Asus Eee Pad Slider netbook/tablet while back and even though released date has not been clarified as yet we are noticing signs of release havoc in Germany and UK. Amazon in Germany is taking emails for notification and UK Asus facebook is stating that EeePad Slider release will [...]

Sharp RD-PM1 MID – nothing great about this MID

Sharp has rolled out another great looking MID: RD-PM1. This design employs use of slider mechanism.

It comes with a 4.3-inch touch-screen and a rather shabby resolution of 480×272. It has a sliding keyboard which it cleverly hides itself beneath its screen when not in use. It is powered by Windows CE 5.0 operating system. It has 8GB flash-storage, micro-SD slot (upto 16GB supported), built-in Bluetooth and WiFi. It is set to carry a price-tag of $290.

To be honest, we were more impressed by the two other MIDs that the Sharp rolled out (Sharp PM-MID and Sharp PC-Z1). At least, they sported better resolution. Whats up with the pathetic resolution in RD-PM1? Heck, even iPhone has better resolution than that!

Toshiba releases 3 new MIDs – Toshiba K01, Toshiba K02 and Toshiba L1 – Run Windows Mobile

Toshiba is showing off 3 new MIDs: K01, K02 and L1. All of them sport touch screens. First MID, the K01, comes with an 4.1-inch slider touch screen and has thickness of mere 0.6 inches. Second MID, the K02 has an 3.5-inch screen having 800×400 (WVGA) resolution. It is equipped with a 10-key keyboard.

Third one, the L1 has a bigger screen than aforementioned 2 models. It has a massive 7-inch screen. These MIDs will be released by end of the year 2010 and will run on Windows Mobile 6.5.

Commentary: It is interesting to see manufactures still churning out MIDs based on Windows Mobile platform. This means that there is still a good market for the Windows Mobile MIDs since it also has its own advantages over the webOS, iPhone or Android OS., apart from the bucketfull of disadvantages when compared to other mobile operating systems.