It’s all go at Eston’s render labs this week, with two new tablets in the offing. The company has sliced off the hardware keyboard from their MID-02 and produced the touchscreen-only MID-05, a 5-inch handheld running either Android or Windows CE. If your fingers are too chubby for that, Eston also have the N97 MID, with a larger 7-inch touchscreen and integrated 3G.
Is it the morning for Android-based MIDs? Jenn over at Pocketables has turned up evidence of two devices both running Google’s open-source mobile platform, in the shape of the Eston MID-02 slider and a video of French carrier SFR’s M! PC Pocket running the OS. Eston’s device – which is also branded as the M4301 – has a 4.3-inch resistive touchscreen and can dual-boot Windows CE 6.0 and Android.
Video demo after the cut
It’s hard enough bringing your new MID to market without someone stealing your prototype, but that’s what Eston Technology have had happen at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair. Tech-On! stopped by to check out the touchscreen slider, which is based on an Intel processor and uses either Windows CE or Linux, but was told that someone had “walked away” with the mockup shortly after it was unveiled.
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