More mobile internet kit coming soon

These days I’m getting more and more excited about the growing range of kit available giving people access to the mobile internet.

In the last week two new devices have been announced. One is an Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) from Asus, called the R3. The other is a device called EB, or Elecktrobit, which is being called a ‘MIMD’ – that’s a Mobile Internet Multimedia Device.

Tech-heads among you might be more familiar with MIMD standing for Multiple Instruction stream, Multiple Data stream - so I’m not too convinced about the name and it doesn’t even roll off the tongue!

Nevertheless, the point is there is a now a vast amount of investment underway on getting these kinds of devices out to market - like the Medion UMPC, the WiBrain B1 UMPC and the Packard Bell EasyNote XS which are all being launched in 2007.

At the same time, CPU makers are at work to create new processors that will use up to 10 times less power than today’s average laptop. All of which will make the mobile internet much more accessible for everyone.