BenQ has announced that their latest Mobile Internet Device a.k.a MID ,BenQ Aries2 is ready to be launched in the Europe within couple of weeks.The company’s Free Surf UI, which allows users to shake the device to minimize and align active windows, impressed the judges with its “unprecedented operation experience of mobile Internet and complete removal of consumers’ usage barriers in handheld devices.”

Externally the device is surely eye catchy with 4.8 inch WXGA display with 800 x 600 resolution .The device is powered by Intel Atom 800 Mhz with 512KB Cache and has 512MB RAM and 4GB SSD storage.The extra features supported by it includes wireless connectivity through WLAN 802.11b/g , Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and it supported HSDPA networks.

The price of the BenQ Aries2 is not yet known.

Just a month after Sony’s last sale of VAIO UX series of UMPC’s , Sony has announced re-awakening of the series with a lot of “serious” upgrades..The new members in the VAIO UX series are UX72 , UX92S and UX92NS.

Intel Core 2 Solo CPU’s which are 64 Bit [ U2200 - 1.2 GHz and U2100 - 1.06 GHz ] are also offered along with 32 bit Celeron processor.Another option being provided by Sony is of the Hard Drive, you can now opt a 64 GB NAND SSD drive instead of the good-old 40 GB HDD.Plus its going to be shipped with Windows Vista edition.

BlackBerry will be announcing their latest upgrade to the BIS, BIS 2.4 probably today.The upgrade features numerous improvements like support for vCard , MP3 , PDF and RTF attachments.Other features includes the ability to login into your Blackberry account without a username and password, this works by using the identification of product.

The new going-to-be-released-in-Q4-2007 Sony W960i phone has some interesting features like :

• Animated Walkman visualizations.
• Symbian UIQ OS.
• Its designed elegantly , Sony has paid enough attention to it in making it look like a normal cellphone though its a smartphone
• 3.2 Megapixel camera with LED flash
• .8 GB internal memory
• Bluetooth with A2DP enabled
• and best of all, its claiming a 9 hour talktime battery life. Beat that Nokia !!!

More detailed pics after the break.

Here are some pictures that got into net through Planete-nokia.Enjoy them.

The Q1U-SSDXP is the SSD storage option of Q1 with 32 GB SSD backing the storage department.

Specifications of Q1U-ELXP

• Processor : 600 MHz A100 Ultra Mobile Processor
• Storage : 40 GB HDD
• Memory : 1 GB DDR2 RAM
• Price : $999

Specifications of Q1U-XP

• Processor : 800 MHz A110 Ultra Mobile Processor
• Storage : 60 GB HDD
• Memory : 1 GB DDR2 RAM
• Price : $1149

Specifications of Q1U-ELXP

• Processor : 800 MHz A110 Ultra Mobile Processor
• Storage : 32 GB Flash NAND SSD [ Solid State Disk ] , resulting in improved battery life
• Memory : 1 GB DDR2 RAM
• Price : $1649

The U1 UMPC’s Q1U-SSDXP, Q1U-ELXP and the Q1U-XP are equipped with biometric security options like fingerprint recognition [ AuthenTec Scanner with Omnipass security Software ]

Other Features that are common to all Q1 Series UMPC’s includes integrated 802.11 b/g WiFi , Bluetooth 2.0+ with EDR.

Samsung Announced Three New Q1 Ultra UMPC Models

Asus Eee is rumored to be having a 7 inch display and a 4GB flash based hard drive and RAM of 512MB.Another feature that’s present is WiFi.

Asus

By its looks, its gotta be the original n official picture of [tag] Palm [/tag] Centro [tag] Smart Phone[/tag] running Palm Garnet OS.

This pic confirms that the Palm Centro will be offered by Sprint and if it is like that.Its going to be priced at $99 as a contract.

Palm Centro Photo Leak

Centro is also supposed to be available in two OS flavors , Windows Mobile Edition and the mentioned Palm Garnet.The Above picture is that of the Windows Mobile Version.

Here’s the Palm OS Garnet Version, this one is certainly less wider.

The Centro looks small but the keys in the full keyboard are a bit too small and adjacent to each other.In any case its the smallest [tag] Palm [/tag] [tag] Smartphone [/tag] reported to date and it has [tag] EVDO [/tag] enabled . And oh, the Smartphone is a having a touchscreen.

In US the phone will supposedly go for $99 with contract in with 90 Days from release exclusivity from Sprint.

Palm shows off ‘Centro’ smart phone

Now the specifications of the Meizu Mini One are known to us , still they are a bit more clearer now.here are the specifications and more pictures [ just after the jump ]

Specifications of Meizu mini One M8:

• Dimensions : 59mm x 107mm x 11.8mm [l x b x h]
• CPU：667MHz + ARM11 video decoder / encoder video CODEC , the processor is thought to be from Samsung
• Memory : 128 MB DDR SDRAM with built-in cache
• Format : GSM + EDGE (2.75G)
• Operating System : Windows CE6.0 core with self developed add-ons
• Screen : 3.4-inch TFT touch screen with 720 x 480 resolution and 16 million colors
• Camera : 300W pixels with auto(http://www.carinsurancerates.com) focus but no flash. Well we can adjust without the flash at this awesome price. cant we?
• Battery : 1400mAH around
• Other functions : Wi-Fi Bluetooth 2.0 ,TV Out , USB port.
• [tag] GPS [/tag] functionality through USB or Bluetooth

The price is expected to be around 2380 Yuan for 4 GB model and 2880 Yuan for 8 GB and the the current release date is on December 30 but it could be changed according to the tests undergoing now.

New Meizu mini One live pictures

Nokia’s Director of Open Source , Dr Ari Jaaksi said that the new WiMAX enabled Nokia N800 will be having WiFi and [tag]Bluetooth[/tag] and the interferences problem will be reduced in the near future.According to him, N800 will initially support only [tag]Mobile[/tag] WiMAX which is actually a stripped down variant of WiMAX.WiMAX enabled Tablet means high speed broadband net access on the move!.