Nokia N8 Smartphone

Nokia introduced the Nokia N8, the latest smartphone that intuitively connects to people, places and services that matter most. The Nokia N8 enables people to create compelling content, connect to their favourite social networks and enjoy the latest on-demand Web TV programs and Ovi Store apps.
12mb Camera
The Nokia N8 introduces a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a large sensor that rivals those found in compact digital cameras. People can also make HD-quality videos and edit them with an intuitive built-in editing suite.
Unrivaled entertainment system
The Nokia N8 offers a true home theater experience with HD quality film and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound. You can plug the device to your home theatre system with an HDMI cable.
The Nokia N8 enables access to local and global Web TV services that deliver TV programs, news and entertainment from channels such as CNN, National Geographic, E! Entertainment and Paramount directly on the homescreen.
Social media
People can update their status, share location and photos, and view live feeds from Facebook and Twitter in a single app directly on the home screen. Calendar events from social networks can also be transferred to the device calendar.

Software
The Nokia N8 comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation, taking you where you want to be and showing you what want to see in over 70 countries worldwide.
Memory
The Nokia N8 has 16GB of in-built storage space, expandable up to 48GB with a Micro SD card. Large files can be easily transferred to a memory stick with the USB On-the-Go.
Symbian 3 advancements
Multi-touch and customizable home screens
Symbian^3 introduces several major advances, including support for gestures such as multi touch, flick scrolling and pinch-zoom. The Nokia N8 also offers three customizable home screens which can be loaded with apps and widgets.
The new 2D and 3D graphics architecture takes full advantage of the Nokia N8’s hardware acceleration to deliver a faster and more responsive user interface.
The Nokia N8 marks the global device debut of the new Symbian^3 software, featuring several major advancements:
• Usability enhancements across the user interface, including single tap, multi-touch and support for gestures such as “pinch-to-zoom.”
•Three personalized home screens on the Nokia N8, easily maneuvered through by a simple flick.
•Faster and more responsive user interface with new 2D and 3D graphics architecture that takes full advantage of hardware acceleration
•More efficient memory management allows more applications to run in parallel for a faster, more complete and efficient multi-tasking experience.
More Features:
HD quality imaging and cinematic sound
•Shoot and edit photos and video with supreme clarity of a 12 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics
•Dolby Digital Plus Surround Sound and HDMI connection to a home entertainment system
Personalization capabilities for a truly individual experience
•Personal touches come to life on three fully customizable home screens
•Instant access to Ovi Store’s apps, games and other cool content
•Web TV delivers local and global TV favorites right to the home screen
A seamless and fully integrated social network experience
•Get live updates from Facebook, Twitter, and RenRen pushed right to your home screen, with feeds visible at a single glance
•Connect from anywhere on your phone—your home screen, contacts, or map
•Enrich your social network experience with content from your phone including pictures, location and more
Free navigation, forever
•Free worldwide satellite car and walk navigation from Ovi Maps in over 70 countries
•Built in premium guides from Lonely Plan and Via Michelin for tips on travel, restaurants, weather, and hotels

Operating times:
•Talk time (GSM/WCDMA) –12/5 h 50min
•Standby (GSM/WCDMA) –390/400 h
•Video record –3 h 20 min
•Music playback –50 h
•Video playback –7 h
•Video playback with HDMI –6 h
•Web TV –3 h 20 min
Technical Profile:
System: WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 and
GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
OS: Symbian^3
Form Factor: Touch screen monoblock
Dimensions: 113.5 x 59.12 x 12.9 mm (L x W x H)
Weight: 135g
Display: 3.5 inch widescreen (640 x 360 pixels)
capacitive touch
Battery: 1200mAh BL-4D
Media Storage/Memory: 16GB mass memory + micro SD card
slot, 135MB internal memory, support
up to 32GB memory cards. RAM256
ROM512
Video Playback: Video recording, Performance: encoding
25fps, decoding 30fps, File Formats:
H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, H.263, Real Video
10, ON2 VP6, Flash video
Music Playback: FM radio, FM transmitter, MP3 player,
Supported codecs: MP3,AAC,eAAC,
eAAC+,WMA,AMR-WB, DRM support, DRM:
OMA DRM 2.0
Main Camera:
• Lens: Carl Zeiss optics
• Image capture: 12 megapixels
• Video capture: HD 720p
• Aperture: F2.8
• Focal length: 5.4
• Flash: Xenon flash
Connectivity:
• Nokia Adapter Cable for HDMI CA-156
• WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n
• BT2.1 with support for stereo
headsets
• Positioning with GPS, A-GPS, WLAN
and Cell-ID
• Micro-USB 2.0 high speed for file
transfers and charging
• USB On-the-Go
•Nokia AV connector 3.5 mm for audio
input/output and TV out
Available colors:
•Dark Grey •Silver White •Green •Blue •Orange

Aigo P8861H

Specifications (base version)
Manufacturer	Aigo
Model name	MID
Model id	P8860
CPU type	Intel Atom
CPU speed	800 Mhz
Graphics	Intel GMA 500
OS	Linux (Moblin core)
Display Size	4.8" 800 X 480
Display Type	LED b/l, Soft (Finger) Touch
Flash	3.9 GB
Keyboard	YES
Mouse Pointer	NO
Battery capacity	10 (Wh)
Weight	340gm / 12 oz.
Size (w/h/d mm)	152/80/23 mm
Size (w/h/d inches)	6/3.1/0.9

Physical Interfaces
Micro SD slot
USB2.0
Mini USB 2.0 (client)
Headset i/f (Mic+Line)
GPS Antenna socket

Gigabyte M528

One of the most popular MIDs on UMPCPortal, the Gigabyte M528, looks like it might be one of the first to launch and at a far more attractive price than we’d previously heard.

Official information at Computex and sent directly to us from Gigabyte today was that the specifications remain unchanged. We’re still looking at an impressive, pocketable combination of 800×480 touchscreen, 3mp auto-focus cam and 4GB SSD on 800Mhz Silverthorne/Poulsbo (Menlow) with integrated GPS and 3G modules all controlled from the Moblin-based software with it’s ‘Merry-go-round’ user interface. A full suite of applications includes a browser based on the Firefox 3 engine, Skype, Pidgin IM, OpenOffice 2.4 and many others.

The price? Including 3G but excluding any form of data contract (you’re free to drop your own SIM into this one unlike the other 3G-enabled MID that launched this week!) is a recommended $750 (end-user price) in the Taiwan market. That compares well with unsubsidised smartphones like the HTC Advantage and Nokia E90 and makes the OQO 02 3G look somewhat over-priced! $750 is ground-breaking for a 3G-enabled miniature computer although, despite its features, it seems it’s still going to disappoint many of you that voted in the poll (shown below.) 80% of people that voted said they’d only pay up to $600 for the device. 10% of you were happy with $750 though so that’s at least 70 of you that will be thinking about placing an order. [Don't forget to use our affiliate links in the product page and help out UMPCPortal!]

Availability will be late-July in Taiwan which is a slip from the previously expected launch date so I expect that we’ll start to see reviews in mid-July (hopefully here at UMPCPortal) where we’ll find out about battery life (our estimate: 2.5 working wifi/3G hours on the 10wh battery) the navigation capabilities (turn-by-turn included?) the quality of the cam (3mp auto-focus sounds impressive,) speed of applications, heat, noise and all the other questions that a spec-sheet doesn’t answer. Availability dates for other territories are not clear at this stage but August seems likely.

Pre-order is now available through our affiliate partners Expansys and Mobilx although they don’t appear to have pricing up yet. I’ve got my order in already though and am looking forward to being one of the early adopters of this new breed of pocketable PCs.

Acer Liquid

The Android meter is ticking. Acer want a piece of the pie. We all add two and two together. Yesterday, Acer didn't know the first thing about phones (if you can say that for a household name in notebooks), today they're betting on two horses in the mobile OS race. After their neoTouch running on Windows Mobile 6.5, Acer decided to dip their toe into another kind of water - the free and open source world of Android. This time attention goes to the Liquid - the company's second Snapdragon powered device.
We have to admit we weren't as impressed as we wished by the neoTouch and its almost naked Windows Mobile OS. It was less the price and more the really strong competition that drew our attention away from it.

We're certain it's not how Acer planned it to be and their answer was immediate - the sexy Liquid powered by Android 1.6. Just like the neoTouch, a Snapdragon core is ticking inside the Liquid and does all it can to run the OS flawlessly despite the slightly lower clock rates.

Key features

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• 3G with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 2Mbps
• Android OS v1.6 with Acer UI 3.0
• 3.5" capacitive touchscreen of WVGA resolution
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 8250 768 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with video recording
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and GPS receiver
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and turn-to-mute
• Digital compass
• Standard miniUSB port for charging and data
• Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
• microSD card slot with support for up to 16GB cards (2GB one included)
• Standard 3.5mm audio jack
• Direct access to the official Android Market

 

Main disadvantages

• Camera lacks flash or lens cover, has outdated features
• No smart dialing, no voice dialing, no video calling
• No web Flash support
• Acer UI 3.0 offers only minor changes to the original interface
• Somewhat limited 3rd party software availability
• No DivX or XviD video support or a third-party application to play that
• Poor MP4 playback performance - any videos over QVGA res are barely watchable
• No proper file manager out of the box
• No TV-out port
• No FM radio

Both lists give us a sense of deja-vu. It was a similar case with the neoTouch, but this time the situation is a bit different. Some of the Liquid's weaknesses are inherent to the Android OS (especially its first iteration, the Donut). It's not that they won't count against, but it's at least fair to note most of those are not Acer's fault. 

Nokia N800

The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet is a wireless Internet appliance from Nokia, originally announced at the Las Vegas CES 2007 Summit in January 2007. N800 allows the user to browse the Internet and communicate using Wi-Fi networks or with mobile phone via Bluetooth. The N800 was developed as the successor to the Nokia 770. It includes FM and Internet radio, an RSS news reader, image viewer and a media player for audio and video files.

• Processor: OMAP2420 microprocessor with a native speed of 400 MHz
  
  • Runs at an underclocked 330 MHz on OS2007, due to the fact that the DSP speed will be halved if run at full speed
  • Runs at the native 400 MHz on OS2008.^[1]
• Memory: 128 MiB of RAM and 256 MiB of flash memory.
• Connectivity: IEEE 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 (DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, HID profiles as well as A2DP/AVRCP and PAN via third party emulation), and USB 2.0 OTG high-speed.
• Display & resolution: pressure-sensitive resistive touch-screen LCD 4.1 inches 800×480 at 225 dpi (the same as the 770.)
  
  • includes PowerVR MBX acceleration, but the operating system does not include a device driver
• Expansion: 2 full-sized Secure Digital card slots, one internal and one external, each accommodating one card up to 32 GB capacity when using SDHC. Only cards up to 8 GB are officially supported by Nokia.^[2]
• Camera: built-in pop-up rotating webcam. (note the camera does not rotate a full 360 degrees).^[3]
• Audio: microphone, stereo speakers, FM radio tuner, 3.5-mm headphone jack (compatible with standard stereo headphones, but also containing a fourth pin with microphone input). The headphone jack also functions as the antenna for the FM radio.
• Operating system: Linux-based Internet Tablet OS 2007. In December 2007 the new OS 2008 was released for the Nokia N800 and the Nokia N810.
• The N800 supports Skype internet calls and Flash Player 9 as of July 6, 2007, which allows users to watch YouTube videos, play online flash games, and make free internet calls to other Skype-enabled devices.

Note that the USB port uses a mini-B socket instead of mini-AB so that a specially grounded adaptor is required to make full use of the USB OTG client/host auto-switching. Switching can be done in software with regular adaptors, though. USB OTG only provides 100 mA of power (versus full-size USB's 500 mA), so devices with larger power requirements will need to be used with a powered USB hub.

Dell Latitude XT2

Tap into the Future – With the Latitude XT2 

The industry's first tablet PC with multi-touch screen technology has taken superb to a new level with the Dell^TM  Latitude^TM  XT2. The XT2 lets you use natural gestures like a pinch or tap for scrolling, panning, rotating, zooming and more.

Innovative multi-touch responsive screen Dual-digitizer for low pressure, high touch accuracy New LCD-based wireless antenna design for excellent connectivity

Duo SU9400 1.4GHz (800MHz FSB, 3MB L2 Cache) 
Microsoft Windows Vista Business (32-bit)
3GB DDR3 1066MHz RAM (2GB + 1GB)
120GB Toshiba 1.8" 5400RPM HDD
8X CD / DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive) through docking station
Intel 5100AGN WiFi, Bluetooth, and 1Gb Ethernet
6-Cell 42WHr Battery 
Limited 3-year standard parts and labor warranty with on-site service
Dimensions: 11.7 x 8.7 x 1.1"
Weight: 3lbs 13.6oz
Price as configured: $2,253

Viliv X70

Model name: X70 EX Premium Air

• CPU type: Intel Atom (Silverthorne)
• CPU speed: Z520, 1.33Ghz
• Graphics: Intel GMA 500
• OS: Windows XP Home
• Display Size: 7″ 1024 X 600
• Display Type: Soft (Finger) Touch
• RAM: 1024 MB
• Storage: 32GB SSD
• Battery capacity: 29 (Wh)
• Weight: 660g
• Size (w/h/d mm): 210/117/23 mm

 Ports and features:

• 1xUSB2.0
• Video-out (analogue, component, S-Video, VGA, requires adaptor cables sold seperately)
• SD card slot
• Mini USB 2.0 (for data transfer)
• 802.11b/g
• BT2.0
• Internal 3G (Huawei EM770, HSPA/UMTS 850/1900/2100MHz, HSUPA: 5.76Mbps (UL) / HSDPA: 7.2Mbps (DL))
• 3G and SMS software
• Additional Specs and Accessories (can vary)
• WebCam 1.3mp
• GPS (Sirf III)
• Stylus
• Stereo speakers
• Built in Microphone