![6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a5e193cb970c 800wi UMID M2 with 1GB RAM and Windows 7 NOT priced at $499 [Updated]](http://www.pocketables.com/images/old/6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a5e193cb970c-pi.jpg "Umid_idf")
That's a photo of the original UMID M1 you see there on the right, but the new M2 prototype that is literally being shown right now at a pre-IDF Intel event is pretty much cosmetically identical to it apart from the inclusion of an optical mouse and mouse buttons, a better screen angle, and standard ports (no more dongles!). Update #1: Photo and video screen captures below.
The even better news about the UMID M2 is what's happening inside the casing: up to a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB RAM, and Windows 7. Pretty much everything we all wanted, right? Perhaps even better is that the device is due in the US later this year (everything from late October to late December was mentioned at some point, but I think we're looking at November). Update #2: Unfortunately, I have been told by UMID that the previously reported $499 price actually refers to a much lower spec'd model with 1.2GHz Atom CPU, 512MB RAM, Windows XP, 8GB SSD, and no webcam. The price for the high-end version has not been set yet, but it is "absolutely not" $499.
Keep an eye on MID Moves for videos, photos, and hands-on impressions of the M2, as I believe Steve is being allowed to take the device back to his hotel for a sleepover tonight.
![6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a58b32ef970b 800wi UMID M2 with 1GB RAM and Windows 7 NOT priced at $499 [Updated]](http://www.pocketables.com/images/old/6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a58b32ef970b-pi.jpg "Umid_m2_sample")
And now for some blurry still frames from Steve's video demo:
![6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a5e1a367970c 800wi UMID M2 with 1GB RAM and Windows 7 NOT priced at $499 [Updated]](http://www.pocketables.com/images/old/6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a5e1a367970c-pi.jpg "M2 2")
![6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a58b10d8970b 800wi UMID M2 with 1GB RAM and Windows 7 NOT priced at $499 [Updated]](http://www.pocketables.com/images/old/6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a58b10d8970b-pi.jpg "M2 1")
![6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a58b12b0970b 800wi UMID M2 with 1GB RAM and Windows 7 NOT priced at $499 [Updated]](http://www.pocketables.com/images/old/6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a58b12b0970b-pi.jpg "M2 4")
![6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a58b126a970b 800wi UMID M2 with 1GB RAM and Windows 7 NOT priced at $499 [Updated]](http://www.pocketables.com/images/old/6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a58b126a970b-pi.jpg "M2 3")
![6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a5e1a3d1970c 800wi UMID M2 with 1GB RAM and Windows 7 NOT priced at $499 [Updated]](http://www.pocketables.com/images/old/6a00d83451c9ec69e20120a5e1a3d1970c-pi.jpg "M2 5")
Oh, ouch. Aesthetics took a couple steps back.
Yeah, it looks a bit chunkier (I guess to accommodate the standard ports?) but it’s not the production version so things could still change.
Some reports it has an optical mouse
Sorry, I see you’ve got that already!
What about 3G for Europe?
ewwww… looks chunky…
BUT I MUST HAVE IT O_O
UMID slowly seems to be evolving into my perfect device!!
Yes!!!!
Hi Jenn.
More pics in the gallery now.
http://www.umpcportal.com/gallery/v/UMIDM2/
The new redesigned UMID feels like a no brainer to me. Finally no more dongles, a mouse, AND the screen goes all the way back. Can’t wait until its released.
What a piece of cake now a brick. I also wonder how much weight added and/or how much shorter the battery life is. Well, that’s what you’ve been begging for. I’m glad I have a M1, this M2 seems no longer so pocketable, not my cup of tea.
Thanks, Steve. I added a link to the gallery beneath the first photo as soon as I saw your tweet about it.
They certainly seem to be going the right way. Hopefully the M3 will be a tablet with an active digitizer and a proper thumb keyboard. And the mouse thingies to the right of the keyboard.
Well…the no brainer part is correct…another Atom chip….Yawn….
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the active digitizer, John….
As for mouse thingies, poiinter to the right of the display and mouse buttons to the left of the display. They’re not on the keyboard half of the M2….
Wow those are definitely netbook specs! Any word of this coming to the UK??
Nice device and nice to see that they are improving their devices quite fast!
I want to have one
UMID M2 with Mac inside would be perfect!
Now this is more like it. Just hope the performance good & I might add one to my collection.
Well shoot, just when I thought I was going to be satisfied with the Netwalker, this comes out!
As far as the chunky factor goes, I for one like the style. I think matte finish would be preferred, and hope they can swap that out for the actual release model.
This addresses all my issues with the M1: more RAM, optical mouse, and full-size ports. I agree with teh.sean, matte finish would make the device look much better.
And could it possibly have a larger battery now that it has more room?
I do like what i see so far, but I think I am still looking at the NetWalker and the N900.
I like the refresh. What I want to know is if 1 GB is going to be enough power to run Windows 7. I’m assuming it will have windows 7 starter edition. There are going to be alot of MIDs announced this week so hopefully some of them will actually see the light of day, not just concepts. I know UMID will deliver on this one. But I am still stuck between something like this and Nokia N900. I know they are not even comparable, but Im looking for something that can be a pocketable mobile communicator for twitter, facebook and light micro blogging.
Hmm…in my opinion, with the future intro of the XPPHONE, and perhaps the UMID M2, the Nokia N900 is a nice interim device if U have the dough to spare…! Yes, MAEMO on the Nokia has potentials, but as much as many people are in this love/hate relationship with Windows, it’s one of the most used OS in the world…so there’s tons of software developed for it…and at the end of the day it is the software that one needs to run in order to access business docs, vpn networks, homegrown internal apps, etc…when mobile…
That’s basically the claim that U see on the xpphone.com/en site…the availability of gazillion apps currently available for Windows…! We R in a mainly x86 world, with some RISC processors here an there sprinkled behind big servers (e.g. Sparc chips from Sun, Power chips, etc, etc)…sure, there are tons more cpus, but as far as systems where end users, and business users interact with, the choice is obvious…
Update on that pricing.
$499 is for WinXP, 512M and no cam.
http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/09/update-on-umid-m2-pricing-and-availability/
I’m in the same boat minus the N900. I’ll wind up getting both of them in the end, but it will be a good fight between the two.
Thanks. UMID got in touch with me as well with the corrected price info (and to stress that the Win7/1GB model was “absolutely not” going to be $499). I’ve updated the post.
How about using a wifi chip that is supported a bit better under a modern linux distro?
Double ouch. For a few brief moments today I was thinking about swapping the S5 for this, living with the tiny keyboard and the… chunky looks; hey, I managed to do okay with the U2010. But 512MB on the entry level = NG.
Definitely crucial improvements. The looks aren’t as good, though. But if I have to choose between looks and 1GB RAM, proper ports, properly opening screen and an optical mouse, of course I’ll go for the latter. What art its size measurements?
But still no word on what higher end pricing will be?
Judging from UMID M1 release, there were A LOT of options covering a big price gap. What did the ‘dictionary’ model cost? ~400 USD? And then the uber model was around ~$600. And all that was before black plastics and 3G. I don’t even know what those ran, like $700+ for the big boy model?
No, not yet.
The 3G black M1 I have with 32GB SSD was $900+, so the price for the best M2 (not sure if 3G comes standard or if it’s just an option) might not be very attractive. I don’t think it’ll be as high as the 3G M1, which technically still isn’t officially available in the US, but maybe $700 or so?
The fact that UMID told me that $499 was “absolutely not” the price for the top-end M2 suggests that the final pricing won’t even be close.
The M1 is 6.2″ x 3.7″ x 0.7″, so the M2′s final measurements should be close to that (though probably a bit thicker).
I had the Umid M1, 1.3Ghz with 16GB SSD. Did some tinkering with it, modded the case and wound up selling it within a month. A clamshell is just not the right form factor for something that you put in your pocket. It has to be a slider or ditch the keyboard completely (something I am not in favour of). No dongles – good thing. 1GB RAM, excellent. Screen is too small to be useful, since there is no simple way of zooming in and out like on an OQO or UX. I bought mine for work to do call reporting and had it “docked” back at the office. Yes, it was not the right device but there just wasn’t anything else since OQO went bankrupt.
Build quality, LCD brightness were the straws that broke my back on keeping it.
Chunk form factor gives more base room, not nec. for ports. M1 was a soldered machine, hopefully the internal architecture here is more interfaced, SATA2, SODIMM, etc. The battery is in hinge I assume, larger hinge. Hopefully it’s swappable. This appears to be a netbook. The psixpda form factor is more phone-like. Personally, I’ll just be happy with a wallet sized computer so I can travel with it.