ASUS has just unveiled its new Eee Pad MeMO. The 7-Inch tablet was designed with cloud computing in mind making it perfect media device for the upcoming year as ASUS shifts its focus on the cloud. Coming with a built-in stylus, the MeMO has been optimized for a pen experience.

The device will run on Qualcomm Snapdragon and will be based on the Android operating system. With two cameras onboard, the device will be a great ultra-portable device and with its onboard pen, it will be a completely new experience for users.

MeMO features a 7-inch IPS multi-touch screen and will ship for $499-$600 in June.

While Nokia remains mum about the status of its first MeeGo handset, Doug Fisher, Vice President of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group and General Manager of Systems Software Division, is being decidedly more talkative. According to an interview published by Forbes, MeeGo phones and tablets are in the works but we’ll have to wait until 2011 to handle them. Specifically, Fisher says that MeeGo based cellphones won’t debut until the first half of next year, possibly at a large industry trade show. Hmm, could that be Mobile World Congress by any chance, scheduled for February 2011? It’s also worth noting that Fisher’s timeline coincides with plans for a MeeGo 1.2 release tentatively scheduled for sometime around the end of April.

This is of course disappointing — especially after seeing Nokia’s amazing looking MeeGo-based N9 (pictured) in that supposed leak. Though it’s hardly unexpected given all the executive level changes at Nokia. Remember, back in December Nokia had promised to “deliver” a Maemo 6 powered mobile computer in the second half of 2010. That promise was then seemingly reiterated when the joint MeeGo initiative was announced in February (MeeGo being the union of Maemo and Intel’s Moblin). It was during that announcement that Intel and Nokia promised to “launch” MeeGo devices from Nokia and other manufactures in 2010. We took that to mean retail delivery, not just a product announcement. In fact, we’ve already seen the first MeeGo tablet — the WeTab — ship in Germany. And Fisher says that other MeeGo devices like netbooks and Internet Connected TVs are still on track to ship this year.

Regardless of the semantics, we just want to see Nokia get this right, especially as MeeGo looks to be Nokia’s big play to win back the US market. If they don’t get this right, well, Nokia might not get a second chance — not with Android rapidly maturing, Windows Phone 7 set to launch, and HP getting ready to put its muscle behind webOS. Let’s give Skillman some time to perfect the user experience, shall we?

Intel says no MeeGo phones until first half of 2011, Nokia just shrugs originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s no amplifier substitute, but Line 6 has come up with something potentially even better for the budding songwriter buried deep within your rhythmic veins. The MIDI Mobilizer for iPhone and iPod touch is an app-based peripheral that lets you record, playback, store, and transfer MIDI sequences and parameters using the MIDI Memo Recorder software. While it does sound convenient in theory, we’ll have to wait until we can try the dongle out for ourselves. At this point in time, price of the Mobilizer is TBD and the release date is the ever-vague Spring 2010. As for the recorder app, it’s currently available on iTunes free of charge, although it’s more or less useless without the complementary hardware. For now, you’ll just have to settle with living vicariously through the promo video, after the break.

[Thanks, Fred]

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Line 6 peripheral brings MIDI and iPhone closer than you ever expected originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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