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Samsung Mondi Mobile WiMAX Device First-impressions

By Vincent Nguyen on Monday, Jul 27th 2009 4 Comments

It seems a long time since we played with a non-functional prototype of Samsung’s Mondi WiMAX MID back at Mobile World Congress in February. Only last week the Windows Mobile 6.1 handheld saw its official launch, to take advantage of Clearwire’s slowly spreading CLEAR WiMAX network, so imagine our surprise when a Mondi dropped, unannounced, through the SlashGear letterbox. After the cut, check out our walkthrough video and an initial hands-on gallery, together with some early feedback in advance of our full review.

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Samsung Mondi WiMAX MID previewed: keyboard poor & WM6.1 sluggish

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 23rd 2009 No Comments

Samsung’s Mondi may be tricky to find for retail right now, but an early unit has dropped over at PC World for them to try out. Taking advantage of Clearwire’s CLEAR WiMAX network, the Mondi MID has a slide-out keyboard, 4.3-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen and runs Windows Mobile 6.1; unfortunately, reviewer Ginny Mies found that while the screen is “gorgeous” the keyboard is too flush to be comfortable and the OS does its usual job of making things sluggish.

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Samsung Mondi launches as CLEAR WiMAX spreads to Las Vegas

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 21st 2009 1 Comment

Samsung have officially released their Mondi MID, the Windows Mobile based WiMAX handheld, to coincide with Clearwire’s CLEAR WiMAX service rolling out in Las Vegas. That takes the number of WiMAX markets to three, with Clearwire claiming around 1.7m residents have now been covered with the new service rollout.

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Samsung Mondi gets ARM11 CPU: doubts over MID performance

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Apr 8th 2009 No Comments

Samsung’s Mondi WiMAX MID had something of a stretched out launch – first being demonstrated at MWC as the SWD-M100, then getting a quiet mention through the company’s own RSS image feed, before Samsung finally came clean early this month. What we haven’t known until now is the processor powering the Mondi, and anybody hoping for something esoteric and interesting will be disappointed: it’s an 800MHz ARM11 chip.

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Samsung announces Mondi mobile internet device

By Steven Grady on Wednesday, Apr 1st 2009 No Comments

Today at CTIA, Samsung announced the Mondi, a small, Windows Mobile powered device, featuring WiMax and WiFi capabilities. The Mondi has a 4.3″ touch screen, packs Bluetooth 2.1, a 3MP camera with video capture, a full slide out QWERTY keyboard, HDMI out, and 4GB of internal storage.

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Samsung SWD-M100 WiMAX MID video demo

By Vincent Nguyen on Sunday, Feb 22nd 2009 No Comments

It was at Intel’s booth rather than Samsung’s at Mobile World Congress where we got our hands on the Samsung SWD-M100 Mobile Internet Device, and while the unit they had to play with was mysteriously non-functional, the hardware is certainly promising. Hidden behind a 4.3-inch touchscreen there’s a full slide-down QWERTY keyboard, together with WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and – its crowning glory – WiMAX.

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