New MIDs and XP phone expected at Computex 2009
Computex 2009 kicks off in Taipei next week and while there are still bound to be some surprises, a decent amount of info about what attendees can expect to see there has already been revealed. Here's a quick rundown of some of the highlights:
- NVIDIA Tegra-powered MID products will surely make an appearance, especially considering the 600 series chip's inclusion in the show's product directory.
- Viliv is promising an invitation-only showing of its new 4.8-inch MID equipped with a hardware keyboard. A thinner slider-style S5 Premium, perhaps?
- An AMD-powered slider phone (shown above – bigger image below) that runs full Windows XP on its 4.8-inch WVGA touchscreen will be shown by Chinese company ITG. The unimaginatively named xpPhone features WiFi, GPS, 64GB SSD, and a QWERTY keyboard that includes mouse buttons, a touchpad, and a number pad.
- The Atom-based LonMID M100 MID phone doesn't look like it will actually be at Computex, but I'm lumping it in here because there's talk about a June 6th launch date that fits in nicely with the June 2nd to 6th show in Taiwan.
There will be other product announcements at the event too, of course, but these are the MID-related ones that should probably interest Pocketables readers most.
