Meet the Aigo Mobile Internet Device (MID)
UMPCFever has gotten a first-look at the Aigo MID, or Mobile Internet Device. The MID, manufactured by Hong Kong company Aigo, is a hybrid between a UMPC and Mobile Phone. It is designed primarily for hand-held computing (similar to the BenQ MID) and features a touchscreen, stylus and slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
Apart from its small form factor, the Aigo MID weighs just 200g. That is even lighter than Raon’s minute Everun UMPC. The Aigo comes with a 4.8 inch display at 840×480 pixels. In tests, the device ran smoothly under its install of Linux and even sported iPhone like features such as a sliding program launcher.
The Aigo MID centers around Intel’s competing concept (to Microsoft’s UMPC) of the Mobile Internet Device, a highly connected device that is set to compliment or replace your Mobile Phone. In a way, the MID’s large screen size relative to that of phones and it’s hand-held design fills the gap left by the slowly fading PDA market. However the Mobile Internet Device bests the Personal Digital Assistant by sporting a more powerful Silverthorne or “Atom” processor and is truly an x86 machine capable of running even stripped-down versions of Windows XP or Vista.
To read the hands-on review of the Aigo MID, go to UMPCFever.
