What Future for Mobile Internet Devices, or MID (Mobile Internet Devices), developed by Intel and its partners? Competing UMPCs, or Ultra Mobile PC invented by Microsoft, the MID are mini computers connected over 3G or WiFi equipped for most of a GNU / Linux.
But the MID are not always popular among the general public despite the democratization of netbooks incorporating a chip or the latest 3G smartphones like the Nokia N900. According to Digitimes, several companies have actually announced their intention to leave the MIDI (Mobile Internet Device Innovation Alliance), the Intel alliance designed to develop such products.
The latter would rather now instead develop a new range of products, SmartBooks pushed by Qualcomm of the digital book readers increasingly popular. What is the difference between a MID and a SmartBook? The latter also operates a GNU / Linux but has the characteristic to be optimized for mobile use, for instance by being always connected, even being on standby, like a simple mobile phone.
The question is whether Intel will encourage its partners - such as Quanta, Compal, BenQ, Gigabyte or Asus - to launch by mid 2010, mid exploiting its next mobile platform "Moorestown". And if mobile users the plebiscite.
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