UMID is presenting new products at the Global Mobile Vision 2008 that is taking place in Korea, and one of them is this tiny mobile internet device named MID.

The computer has a small touchscreen that measures 4.8-inches, which is enough for a resolution of 1024×600 pixels. In the inside you can find an Intel Atom processor at 1.1GHz or 1.33GHz depending on what you need, and the memory RAM can go from 512MB up to 1GB of DDR2. On the other hand, the hard-drive is on the SSD category and offers 32GB.

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I don’t know if you remember the dual touchscreen concept laptop we’ve shown you a while ago but we today we have confirmation that it was actually made by a big laptop manufacturer. Asus has a dual touchscreen laptop which might see the light of day in the first quarter of 2009.

The laptop will use Windows 7 of course, but other features are not known yet. And I might come up with a few reasons against such a fast release for the unnamed prototype. I’d definitely want to touch it though!

LG KP500 or the LG Cookies is a touchscreen handset with a 3 inch TFT touchscreen display, a 3 megapixel fixed focus camera, EDGE and quadband GSM, but no 3G. There’s an accelerometer, a virtual QWERTY keyboard and support for various widgets.

Not exactly an officially launched and Apple seems ready to be moving on. … iPhone, but not a bad phone at all, this LG will cost around 170 Euro or $230 before taxes and subsidies, so who knows how much the device will actually costs when it hits the shelves. We don’t know when that’s going to happen but stay tuned for more info!

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Is RIM going to launch a Bold-like BlackBerry device with touchscreen support anytime soon? Is AT&T going to pick it up? Is the new device going to arrive earlier than the actual Bold?

We have this photo which, as usually, is really really blurry. Or it’s very badly photoshopped. You get the point. People say the device in the picture was announced at Wireless Enterprise 2009. If you happen to be present at WES then go ahead and talk to RIM representatives and drop us a line.

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We already know about Asus‘ intentions to release a touchscreen Eee PC. But the computers manufacturer won’t stop there. In preparation for Windows 7 which will show officially up next year, Asus will have several laptops with touchscreens waiting for Microsoft’s new OS. There’s not much info about the new computers but it’s said that Asus will worki with AU Optronics or Chi Mei Optoelectronics 11.6 or 12.1 inch versions. We’re in for a long wait. 2009 is still far away and Asus has plenty of time to announce features and prices for the upcoming touchscreen laptops.

A lot of us have been looking forward to the new Asus Touchscreen Eee PC. Well, it seems like we won’t have to wait long. Reports are saying that the touchscreen Eee PC is due to arrive in the UK towards the end of November.

The new desktop, which is named ETP1602-WT-X0010, is Asus‘ biggest screen Eee PC yet. It has a 16:10-ratio and a 15.6in touch-sensitive panel. Behind the screen sit all the usual small, cheap components: 1.6GHz Atom CPU, Intel 945GSE integrated chipset and 1GB of 667MHz DDR memory. This model comes with a 160GB 3Gb/s SATA hard drive on which Windows XP is pre-installed.

The Eee has on-board 802.11n Wi-FI and Gigabit Ethernet. there are six USB ports - two on the side, four at the back - audio sockets and a multi-format memory card reader. Despite the touchscreen, the Eee comes with a mouse. A keyboard is bundled too.

In case you liked the first Prada phone from LG then you’ll definitely enjoy its successor too. The Prada II is almost similar to its predecessor but it has a very useful slide-out, full QWERTY, thin keyboard. Besides that, the touchscreen device comes equipped with 3G via HSDPA, video calling, a full HTML browser, a 5 megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens and WiFi connectivity.

The new Prada will be available in Italy, UK, France, Germany, Spani and the Netherlands some time in Q4 2008 and it’s going to cost you 600 Euro or about $815. Intersted?

Nokia has just had a tiny taste of the touchscreen phones world with its 5800 XpressMusic phone. We’re expecting more phones to follow that trend in the near futures. At a recent Nokia event in New Delhi, the marketing director of Nokia India, Devindere Kishore said that: “We will have lots of touchscreen phones coming up, including an N-series device very soon.” Not that a future N-series to sport a touchscreen is such an unexpected move but we have at least a small confirmation from a Nokia official.

Nokia has released yesterday their first touchscreen phone. If you’re already writing long letters to Santa about how you’d been a good kid this year and how you’d love to find a 5800 XpressMusic under the Christmas tree, maybe you should stop. I know Nokia promised us worldwide availability by the end of the year. It might just be that the whole worldwide concept has different meanings for Nokia ane me.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will certainly be available in: India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the UAE, Spain and Russia. That’s Nokia’s worldwide. China, North America and quite a few European countries are left out. Not to mention South America, Africa or Australia.

Is it worth waiting for 2009 to get your hands on the 5800. I’d say yes. Although by that time Nokia might launch a better touschreen phone.

Here’s what you might be interested in waiting for:

• Symbian S60 5th Edition
• 3.2-inch TFT touchscreen with 16 mil. colors and 360 x 640 pixels
• Quad-band GSM, dual-band HSDPA connectivity
• GPS & A-GPS
• Accelerometer
• Wi-Fi, full Web browser
• 3.5mm audio jack
• MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player, MPEG4/WMV/3GP player
• 3.15 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, flash, autofocus and VGA video recording
• 81MB of internal memory
• 8GB on a MicroSDHC card

Nokia just proved it can manufacture a touchscreen device. The 5800 XpressMusic is not the high-end smartphone you would have expected but it has lots of useful features. On top of those is the iPhone-like appearance and the touchscreen itself which will become a standard for future phones.
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The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is here! Nokia’s first touch screen phone is among the company’s first devices to support Nokia’s “Comes With Music” service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalog.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic features the Media Bar, a drop-down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, as well as web and online sharing. With Flash support, you can enjoy a bigger slice of the web. The phone comes with 8GB of memory, a graphic equalizer, and most importantly, a standard friggin’ 3.5 mm jack. The phone also boasts surround sound stereo speakers.

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LG has announced yet another cellphone that has touchscreen as one of the main features. The LG KP500 was announced today and will be officially in the shelves on late October, for an unknown price.

There aren’t many specific details about the new KP500, but we could gather that it will come with a 3-inch touchscreen accompanied by a Stylus, making the usability better and the probability of smudges popping up much smaller, unlike with happens when using the iPhone…

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A couple of days ago we heard that Nokia will be launching the Tube on October 2nd. If it was only a rumored piece of news then, it has just been confirmed by Reuters. The date for the Nokia Tube or the 5800 XpressMusic is October 2nd.

Everything will happen in London, just as we heard before. That means next week we’ll have more news about the actual specs of the Tube and official pricing. Hopefully the first Nokia touhcscreen phone will be more than just an mid-range phone with a cool screen.

Fujitsu U820 or the U2010 received the FCC okay about two months ago. Despite that the new UMPC wasn’t available for U.S. customers yet.

It looks like all that is going to change. The PC showed up in the support section of Fujitsu’s American site. The U820 appears in the drop-down selection list already and there seems to be a BIOS update from July 31st for it. (more…)

So… A Nokia touchscreen phone! Where do I sign up for it? Who do I have to sleep with to get one? I had my share of Nokia phones and they have always turned out to be very dependable devices. The Nokia Tube might be is Nokia’s touchscreen idea and it’s rumored to arrive on October 2nd in London.

I am sure it will be a very successful phone although it might be overshadowed by the G1 released yesterday and the expected BlackBerry Storm. The photo above looks like a press photo, but there’s no press release filled with hot details to confirm the Nokia Tube.

We don’t know if this is the real deal or not but if it is, ASUS might have created just the right cell phone to ward off the touchscreen heat that is building up right now. The above picture shows what looks like a simpleton with not much inside, but if the rumored specs are true, this handset could very well rule the roost in the coming months. The ASUS P565 is said to be powered by a blazing fast 800MHz Marvell-Tavor processor, something that hasn’t been heard of on a cell phone until now, and a 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen (not big enough for the touchscreen fanatics of course, but it’s VGA!). ASUS also seems to have crammed every known wireless solution into the device including WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, HSDPA support, and also GPS. The fast processor along with a decent 128MB of RAM should keep Windows Mobile 6.1 on its toes along with ASUS’ own Glide touch-control software to round out a pretty impressive feature set. There’s not a peep on its pricing but rumors point to an October release, enough time to change your mind if you are saving up for something else.
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We’re constantly checking on Nokia to see when they’re finally going to release their fist touchscreen phone. Usual rumors say the 5800 Tube will be ready by the end of the year but it looks like we might have an earlier UK release. October 8th is the date people say the Nokia Tube will come out for the public.

Besides the introduction of the touchscreen, this device will be the first to run on Symbian S60 5th Edition. Is Nokia going to have it done in exactly one month from today?

We have seen two cell phones that can boast of a 8-megapixel camera as of now, but the LG KC910 has another trick up its sleeve, a touchscreen. Built along the lines of LG’s successful Veiwty, the KC910 is endowed with a 8-megapixel camera with a Xenon flash, auto and manual focus, face tracking, and smile/blick detection. It can also record videos at a whopping 120 frames, although that would probably mean recording in QVGA instead VGA resolution. Apart from the camera, the KC910 is also a multimedia behemoth, being capable of playing DivX and Xvid movies while putting out excellent sounds by way of Dolby technology. Coming to its connectivity options, this touchscreen cell phone has WiFi, 3G/HSDPA support, and built-in GPS for turn-by-turn navigation. There’s also a Jogging Buddy feature for the fitness fanatics, which uses GPS to track the user’s jogging routes and provide useful information. Photogs won’t have to wait long to get their hands on this device, as the KC910 is scheduled for an October release with an undisclosed price tag.

Although that Nokia sits fearlessly at the top of the mobile phone industry, they certainly want to keep up to date to latest trends when it comes to cell phones and smartphones. Currently what Nokia really lacks is a touchscreen handset. We’ve all witnessed Apple’s success at selling their second generation iPhone. Despite it’s their second cell phone, they managed to sell 1 million units in the first weekend. That’s incomparable to the million phones Nokia sells every quarter but still it points out a fact. Toucscreens are popular. Smartphones with touchscreens are popular. Samsung has the Instinct and the Omnia, HTC has a few Touch devices. Even RIM is working on their first one. So Nokia simply has to follow.
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That’s right folks, we have pictures with the actual keyboard from BlackBerry Thunder. Sure it’s a exactly the same touchscreen keyboard the iPhone has. Well not exactly the same identical one but the same concept. You get my point right? From what we can see here, and if it’s not photoshopped, the Thunder looks good. I don’t think anyone will miss the real QWERTY classic keyboard. We’ve heard some weird rumors about the Thunder last week but from this pictures everything seems to be going fine, with RIM on its way of releasing another best seller.

Let’s not forget about the haptic feedback system this BlackBerry is going to have. Hopefully it’s going to work out just fine and we will get that great touch and feel experience when dealing with RIM’s touchscreen. And besides the actual tactile feeling you will get a click sound similar to the sound a pressed key makes. It’s weird why we feel the need to receive a response when touching a screen. Did I say touching? I mean multi-touching of course. That’s right, multi-touch is rumored to be available.

Waiting for more picture and facts about this BlackBerry here. Bad news or good news we’re covering all kinds, just send it in!