In today’s webcast, Motion Computing and Intel announced the results of their usability study of the C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant Tablet PC. Here’s the press release and a snippet of the announcement. Intel Corporation and Motion Computing ® today announced the results from several clinician usability studies completed by leading medical centers. The C5 mobile [...]
Don’t forget to watch Motion Computing’s and Intel’s live webcast, in which they talk about the C5 Tablet PC and usability results. When: Today, December 4th, from 10:00 – 11:30 am PST Where: http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=44228 Technorati Tags: C5, Motion Computing, Tablet PC, Healthcare
According to this report from Digitimes, Intel is aiming to get MID prices down to the $199 – $299 range by bundling the MIDs with telecom carriers. Intel expects to be volume producing the MIDs in the second quarter of 2008. $199 – $299 MID prices would be a major blow to UMPC OEMs. via [...]
For those that have been around the Tablet PC space from the very early days, Sierra Modro is someone you have come to know, trust, and respect. I came to know Sierra through our working together on TabletPCBuzz.com, and got to know her more through various conferences and meet-ups we would attend. I’ve always appreciated the [...]
The mobility landscape seems to be in a constant state of flux as of late, as software companies and OEMs are listening to consumer feedback. Just look at this story from today from Mozilla, Arm, and MontaVista regarding their Linux based UMPC news as a prime example. As the MID / Linux UMPC scene continues to [...]
Layne Heiny, of UMPCBuzz.com, has some very insightful commentary on the state of the ultra-mobile pc space and how it lines up with the Intel MID. Layne doesn’t mince words when he says: Sitting back and considering the events over the past six months, one can easily get all excited over the silly drivel about Intel [...]
Loren Heiny, a Microsoft Tablet PC MVP, has written up a fantastic essay on his thoughts regarding the Moorestown prototypes and the MID devices rolled out during Intel’s IDF conference. Intel is squarely marketing its platforms as a Mobile Internet Device, not a UMPC–even though they toss in UMPC support every now and then. It [...]
Several sites are doing a bang up job of reporting the MID news from Intel’s IDF Forum. UMPCPortal.com is running point on the Asus R3 that was unveiled during a keynote. jkkmobile has some great shots of the Moorestown based MID prototype – looks like a fascinating device for sure and quite iPhone like. Anandtech.com [...]
Keynotes and ultra mobile MID news are coming out of the Intel Developers Forum today, and Chippy and jkkmobile from UMPCPortal.com are on top of it all. Monitor UMPCPortal.com for the latest and we’ll provide some wrap-up coverage later. Technorati Tags: IDF, Intel, MID, Mobile Internet Devices
Yesterday we posted about Intel getting ready to roll out the MID platform, aiming for 2008. Today, jkkmobile posts up a link to a quick video from the Intel Developer’s Forum (IDF) showing off BenQ’s version of the MID. If you want to follow the IDF news more closely, Steve “Chippy” Paine has set up [...]
Looks like Intel is gettng ready for the push into MID Land. The Mobile Internet Devices (big clue in that name as to the target) run on the teeny-tiny Silverthorne chipset. Steve “Chippy” Paine has been scouring the Internet and notices that Intel is posting up some content on Channel Intel. Tags: UMPC, Intel, [...]
Josh Bancroft has some just released some video footage of the Intel Menlow running Windows XP, courtesy of the Intel bloggers attending IDF. Very, very cool stuff. I love the size and the slide-out keyboard, and the fact that it is touch-enabled. This could really give OQO Model 02 a run for its money. If [...]
UMPCPortal.com has some great info, both here and here, on what to expect next week from Intel. What piqued my interest was the Linux based consumer focused UMPC, called a MID ( Mobile Internet Device ). Here is a screen shot, courtesy of UMPCPortal.com, of the differences between a MID and the UMPC. In addition, here is [...]
Prolific blogger, Om Malik, points to this video by Intel of their vision of the UMPC, which we hope to hear more about next week. Some very cool stuff, and totally speaks to the companion device place of the UMPC
According to these slides from HKEPC.com, Intel is about to announce some new cpu and hardware specs for the Ultra-Mobile PC, largely resulting in much improved battery life, a smaller display, and smaller footprint overall. I think the best thing to happen to Intel, in regards to the UMPC platform, is Via! Checkout the slides [...]
As a follow-up to Motion Computing’s press release today, we are learning from cnet.com’s Tom Krazit that on February 20th, Motion Computing and Intel plan to demonstrate the Mobile Clinical Assistant that was announced at Intel’s Developer conference last year. The demo will be held at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center. Motion [...]
Intel’s Josh Bancroft is continuing to put out the good stuff from Intel – this time an interview with Aaron Tersteeg, Community Manager for Intel Software Network. Aaron’s job is to foster a community of developers in order to help them build mobile-friendly applications – applications that run on laptops, tablet pcs, and ultra-mobile pcs. Good stuff coming from [...]
As promised, Intel’s Josh Bancroft is digging in to Intel for information that folks want to know. One of the most interesting so far ( to me anyway :-) ) is a video with Charles Congdon, who goes into depth about Intel’s Multi-Core architecture, what it means for you, and what it means for the [...]
Josh Bancroft, a blogger I’ve been following for a few months, wants to start a conversation. Big deal, you say. Well, he works for Intel and is opening up the mic to talk about anything you want to know about Intel. The title of his post says it all ” Ask me anything about Intel, and [...]
- Engadget and Expansys are reporting a source of new accessories for the Samsung Q1 Ultra-Mobile PC. The source is a Samsung Q1 PDF brouchure that has some pretty good info on the UMPC in general. Some of the items listed are: Keyboard Car mount Optical Disk Drive Case options 8 cell battery pack The [...]
– UMPC News is reporting that Intel has applied for a patent on keyboards for Ultra-Mobile PC’s. Makes sense to me! I confess — as a Tablet PC user and evangelist for several years now, I do not see the fascination with being be to be “totally” keyboardless. Yes, I like having a slate only [...]
– This is an awesome video done by ZDNet. A really nice demo of some of the hardware features, but also some software demos. They also spend some time looking at actual functionality and feature set, and this really does demonstrate what the difference is between a regular small Tablet PC and the UMPC. Here [...]
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