Hot vs. not: Viliv's S5 vs. UMID's Mbook M1 - Engadget
Thu, Feb 26th, 2009
While neither has officially gone on sale yet here or abroad, two anticipated MIDs, the Viliv S5 and UMID M1, both went on pre-order last week in their home nation of Korea, and while the S5 sold out of its initial allotment of 1,000 units in just 8 hours, UMID still has unclaimed devices from its first batch of 500.
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