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BenQ is slowly venturing out of the mobile phone arena and into the UMPC battle ring with this intriguing new device which will supposedly be an Atom-based little PC. Details and specs have been very slow to come but we now have a somewhat relatively clear picture of it, and just about all of the necessary info you’ll need to know in case you intend on purchasing it.

Apparently, this little number is going to be somewhat like a miniature Eee PC, with specs that resemble that UMPC’s very closely. BenQ’s MID will reportedly have an 800 MHz Silverthorne processor, 512 MB of RAM, a 4GB SSD and a Poulsbo chipset. The connectivity options, meanwhile, range from HSDPA, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. The screen looks large enough and presumably readable even under direct sunlight. Already this looks like a formidable Nokia Tablet competitor, and I haven’t even finished detailing the other specifications yet.

This little number from BenQ will also offer the option for a built-in GPS antenna, a custom MID OS, and BenQ’s so-called G-Sensor for direct touch and free movement on the MID screen. So far, this seems really far better than most existing UMPC’s and Internet tablets, not only because it comes with all the basics, but because it doesn’t rely on a weakened and shrunk-down Windows OS. The only bad thing about this piece of news is that there have been no details on the release date and pricing as of this time’s writing. And that isn’t even that bad, so I’m sure you can just ignore that and move on; more info will be posted here as they become available.

Via [SlashGear]

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