Intel's Mobile Internet Design contest gets great concepts

Design is one major factor on a personal device...

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Intel had this design contest at Czech Republic November 2008. Here are some of my picks from them:


" Grand design prize to the design by Petra Matyščáková, an industrial design student at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology.
“The famous adage, ‘Simple is beautiful,’ is absolutely true about this winning design. The simple concept is perfectly designed for the typical user model of mobile devices,” raves Martin Drdúl, Market Development Manager CEE at Intel. "








" The design winning jury’s highest acclaim was submitted by Petr Kubík, an industrial design student at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology. His approach to MID closely resembles a mobile phone, but once you open it, it looks like a book and a notebook at the same time. The design reflects the need for a wide display for comfort when reading and working while seated, as well as for ergonomic controls that can be used when walking. "







Some great new ideas...

.. what's your favorite? Me likes the the basic black/silver slider with keyboard and track pointer... and the sliding/folding thingy on the last pics.

Check the rest of the designs at MediaKom ( translated ]

Buffalo pcie SSD vs RunCore pcie SSD on Asus Eee PC 901

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All test on Eee 901 at Super Performance mode






So Buffalos new SSDs are better than the old ones, but RunCore eats them alive...


Thanks X-Gadget for Buffalo tests [ translated ]

How-to: 3G HSDPA to HP Mini 1000

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Yep, It was BIOS locked, but there is always away to go around.... Bad HP, bad!

Next up with HP Mini 1000: SSD and HDD options


My favorite 3G modems:

Novatel EU870D 3G modem at MobilX

with SIM slot on the modem:

Novatel EU850D 3G modem at MobilX



Details, News and Links for HP Mini 1000

Video preview: gOS Cloud, instant internet

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6 seconds and you are online with gOS Cloud..

..I will be testing it soon too.

Thanks Sascha! [ translated ]

gOS Cloud homepage

Samsung NC 10 dissected

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Thanks EeePCNews

Uups, I did it again: Life on the Wicked Stage Ink Blot Award

YEAH!

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The Annual Life on the Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards have been published, and jkkmobile got one!

The Give Me a Netbook and I’ll Mod It Award: jkkmobile!!!

Me happy!

There are other winners too, so remember to hit the link on the bottom to see them all.

Some pics:

The Put A New Best Foot Forward, Then Put Foot in Mouth, Then Shoot Self In Foot Award: Intel on the Atom powered Netbooks and Intel’s VP of Sales and Marketing, Stu Pann for his recent comments about Netbooks.

Best We Can’t Believe People Really Like These Things, So Let’s Make One in Every Size and Configuration We Can: Asus and the Eee PC.

The Ernie Banks Wait Until Next Year Award: Intel for MIDs

Best Ultra Mobile Device Blogger: Steve “Chippy” Paine

Best and Hands Down Unbeatable Ultra Mobile Device Data Base: UMPC Portal

Best New Mobile Tech Blog: Liliputing

Best Geek Meetup Bloggers: UMPCFever

Best Get Down and Dirty with Mobile Devices Blogger: Jenn at Pocketables


Check the whole list of winners

Buffalo to make SSDs for Dell Mini 9 too

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Buffalo will be making 16GB and 32GB MLC SSDs for Dell Mini 9. Shipping soon, but in Japan only.

Prices are looking good, starting from 60 dollars, but there is no info about the speeds. If they are same as their Eee PC versions, they are too slow..

I will try to get one for testing, but without the speed info, I would still get one of the RunCore ones, as they are proven good and have the USB plug for easy cloning.

Best thing still is that netbooks are getting goodies and competition makes them even better.

Via Engadget

Buffalo product page [ translated ]

Aigo P8895 3G enabled MID shipping soon

Yeaah! No need to hack 3G to it...

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3G, wifi, bt, ssd, gps and touch... on 300g mobile qwerty computer. And finally in black!

Shipping 19th December.

Get yours from MobilX

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HP Mini 1000 dissected

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Testing more on HDD/SSD and 3G... some good news and some bad news coming...

And remember to check my unboxing video... I "unbox" the device itself on it too.

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Aigo MID XP update: VGA and Standby now working

Drivers ..drivers..

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It really should't be this hard INTEL!!!

But step by step we are getting XP to our MIDs too...

Grab the VGA driver from Fujitsu U2010

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HP Mini 1000 SSD and HDD speeds...

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Speed test on HP mini HDD version:


And SSD version:



HP Mini 1000 has slow SanDisk® pSSD™ Solid State Drive and as you can see the HDD is not much faster either...

.. so next i will be testing some other options for it.

The current SSD / HDD are ok for basic use, but a bit too slow and laggy for my taste.

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HDD speed test thanks to CNET Taiwan

RunCore pci-e SSD on Dell Mini 9

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Tests on original SSD on Dell:


RunCore SSDs on Dell Mini 9:



Next I will test RunCore's Dell SSD on Eee 901's internal slot with another one on the 2nd slot.. video coming soon..

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Unboxing HP Mini 1000 SSD version... fully.

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Testing SSD and 3G stuff now... more soon..

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