More new images of the SmartQ 7 MID have emerged from China, including unboxing photos (which you can see in the gallery after the cut) and this comparison shot between the 7 and the SmartQ 5 with its 4.8-inch touchscreen. Both MIDs are ARM-based and run Ubuntu
One of Intel’s demo MIDs from IDF Beijing has shown up for a closer photoshoot, and its already got QWERTY-lovers drooling. The LonMID M100 bears a strong resemblance to some HTC convertible smartphones, but packs more grown-up specifications: an 800MHz Intel Atom Z500 processor, 512MB of RAM (1GB supported) and 4GB SSD, together with a 4.8-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen, WiFi b/g and Bluetooth 2.0.
The unnamed Chinese MID spotted back in March with a nifty pocket docking station has now been identified, as the Zhongyi S101 (no relation to the ASUS netbook of the same name). The S101 has a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen, Marvel PXA 628MHz processor and 128MB of RAM, and runs a Linux OS with Firefox, IM apps and PMP functionality.
HP have announced the ProBook S-Series, a range of value business notebooks with displays ranging from 14-inches to 17.3-inches. Each has an HD-capable display and uses either Intel or AMD processors; there’s also optional Qualcomm Gobi WWAN with the HP un2400 mobile broadband card.
Another update has seen the Linux version of the Boxee multimedia platform gain Hulu support, together with access to the App Box download system. Boxee V.0.9.11.5777M also gains a new GUI skin and brings the Linux version better up to date with the OS X version of the app.
Part of the OLPC project’s appeal has been its innovative Sugar OS; now Sugar Labs have released a public beta of Sugar on a Stick (SoaS), which allows anybody to create a portable Sugar environment that will run on any computer. Fitting onto a 1GB USB memory stick, SoaS combines a compressed version of Fedora 11 with the Sugar Labs amendments.
MSI are planning to demonstrate a netbook running Google’s Android OS at Computex 2009, according to the Chinese-language paper Economic Daily News. The company will apparently be using the event to sell the Android Wind reference design to PC vendors; the original MSI Wind netbook was a great success as a white-box product, rebadged by other companies.
Google have never been shy when it comes to their plans with Android, and consumers should prepare to see it on more than just cellphone screens. The next big market for the open-source platform looks to be the netbook; over at NetbookNews they’ve been playing with an i-Buddie Atom N270-based netbook running the latest build of Android.
Video demo after the cut
Shuttle has announced a new duel-core nettop for consumers: the X270V. The box is running SUSE Linux on Intel dual-core Atom 330 CPU’s with each core clocked at 1.6 GHz. The machine can hold up to 2GB of DDR2, and offers users one of the smallest footprints of any nettop computer.
Wired managed to save some photos of a new tablet that Web 2.0 personality Michael Arrington is producing. These photos were leaked and were up for a short period of time before they were taken down, one assumes, at the request of Mr. Arrington. The Crunchpad is a low-cost device that features a large touchscreen display, and low-end components that run a specially designed version of Linux. Crunchpads would compete directly with netbooks, offering consumers a keyboard-less option for accessing the internet on the go and for running software like Skype.
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