Samsung Mondi MID With WiMAX Available Soon
Best Buy and Clearwire stores will start selling the Samsung Mondi MID on August 1 in the three U.S. cities with live WiMAX service. The Mondi runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and is powered by the ARM-11 processor. The interface has been customized by Samsung, allowing widgets to be placed as desired on the screen for a tailored user experience.
The unique MID has a 4.3-inch screen (WVGA) with a sliding QWERTY keyboard. The inclusion of Windows Mobile makes this more of a PDA, although with the very fast WiMAX connectivity. When used outside the WiMAX coverage areas the Mondi falls back to Wi-Fi. Note that the Mondi doesn’t offer traditional cellular voice support — there are settings to use VoIP, however.
(Press release via pocketables)
At long last, something I feel compelled to replace my old HP iPAQ hx4700 with-and it’s NOT a smartphone, with the small screen and price tag associated with such devices!
Yeah the hx4700 is a bad boy…especially with newer WM rom from xda.
I think this might be more attractive if it also offered 3G connectivity to complement WiMax and WiFi; there is a big gap there at least here in the US. Nice specs though…
great design.
terrible hardware (where is the Omap3?)
terrible OS (why windows?)
i don’t want to discourage MID makers, but it has to be a decent product before i’ll get excited.
In my case, Windows Mobile is actually a key selling point.
Yes, it’s a horribly kludgy OS in need of some massive UI refinements.
However, when loaded with Pocket Informant, SoftMaker Office, TCPMP, Resco Explorer, XnView Pocket, Skype 3.0 beta, Opera Mobile 9.7 beta or Iris, and numerous other apps, I get functionality that simply cannot be matched by any other platform. If I were to get a Clear subscription, I would presume that I could also turn it into a Wi-Fi hotspot with WmWifiRouter.
ESPECIALLY PIM, with the Pocket Informant + PocketBreeze or Spb Diary combo. The only thing that could possibly surpass it would be the old Newton MessagePad 2000/2100, and that would come at the cost of multimedia and Internet capability, not to mention pocketability. (The MessagePads, with 6″ screens, are somewhere between a large-screen PDA/MID and a Tablet PC portability-wise.)
As for hardware, while I’d love to see a Cortex-A9 in there somewhere, what’s in there should suffice so long as I can play back H.264/AVC video without dropping frames.
I could just buy an Open Pandora handheld and be done with it (it’s Cortex-A8 equipped), but that means giving up the Windows Mobile software library. Not happening until I see a worthy PIM suite as well as good multimedia and Web browsing apps.
I just got mine a week ago. Clear is not and probably will not be where I live, but the wireless internet works great. I’ve mostly used the GPS function, but have loaded a few movies on it and it seems to run just fine. No phone functionality, it runs Route 66 for the GPS software, the camera is decent (it takes great panoramic pictures.)
Other than that I haven’t used many of the features…. and probably won’t as I won this and really had no use for it beforehand.