Whether or not it is selling (or legal to) in the US, and even though it has dropped off the radar for many, The HTC Shfit still continues to attract interest. The Boy Genius Report has published a full review with some interesting pros and cons about the device now that they have been hands on. [...]
It certainly looks like there were quite a few UMPCs and mobile devices on hand at the UMPC Meetup at CeBit, sponsored by VIA Technologies. And it certainly looks like Steve “Chippy” Paine was in his element, surrounded by about 40 attendees as well as all those devices. Read more about it on UMPCPortal. [...]
jkkmobile and Steve “Chippy” Paine, the CeBit boys, managed to get quite a bit of good video at CeBit, including this one of the Asus R70a and the R50 UMPCs. Between the Asus UMPCs and the GigaByte M700 UMPC, at least there are some slate (meaning no keyboard) UMPCs about to be on the market. [...]
According to Bjorn Stromberg, the Gecko UMPC, which is priced at $300 is targeted at the developing world and is designed by Norhtec, some of the same folks who came up with the OLPC. It will run Linpus Lite. Running VIA’s C7–M CPU at 1.0GHz it comes with a 40GB HD and up to 1GB [...]
jkkmobile and Steve “Chippy” Paine teamed up at CeBit to check out the MID and UMPC news and have been feeding the world some reports. They are promising more to come and if this tag team approach is any indication, we should find out what “new” news there was (I really didn’t see a tremendous [...]
Rob is still having difficulties downloading the iPhone SDK, probably because the servers are slammed, and yesterday he posted that ““Apple grabbed the UMPC/Mid Market and took it away.†I have to agree with my friend and colleague and even go further. Apple opened a big door with the announcement and shut quite a few [...]
It looks like the HTC Shift is finally available in the US. At least one on-line retailer is advertising it. On The Go Solutions is showing the HTC Shift as in stock and available for the steep price of $1629.99. Intriguingly if you click on the details and accessories link, you’ll find the GBM early [...]
Here’s an interesting looking rugged form factor. Pansonic is showing off their Atom-based (formerly Sivlerthorne) ToughBook UMPC at CeBit. What’s intriguing about this form factor is the keyboard that places the numeric keyboard in the middle of the keyboard, splitting up the QWERTY alignment. According to Impress this rugged UMPC is headed for a fall 2008 [...]
Yesterday’s CeBit reports brought news and pictures of GigaByte’s M700 UMPC. And guess what, no keyboard. That’s right, a slate UMPC. Most thinking and most of what we’ve seen in the last several months had left those looking for keyboardless slates wanting, but if GigaByte can make the M700 UMPC go, at least there will [...]
Well, don’t look for TabletKiosk’s Gail Levy on an upcoming episode of CSI New York, but she did get to spend some time behind the scenes of the show on a recent trip. She talks about it on her blog, Mobility Matters, in her ongoing series chronicling her Tablet Tuesdays. She drops the news that [...]
jkkmobile and Steve “Chippy” Paine continue their CeBit coverage with this video of the Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium. Not they did some video recording and editing during their testing. Don’t forget to check out our GBM CES videos of the Q1 Ultra Premium here and here. > Tags: Samsung+Q1+Ultra+Premium+UMPC, UMPC
Intriguing. Very intriguing. The Samsung Anycall SPH P9200 has caught many an eye is the last 9 months or so, and now we’ve got some pretty good video to examine it with thanks to Bjorn Stromberg at Ultramobilelife.com. I have to say as a convergence device that includes a phone, and with that foldable keyboard this [...]
The Boy Genius Report got their hands on an HTC Shift and did an unboxing. Now BGR is giving one away if you head here and leave a comment. I hear they are shipping in places in Europe (for real) but still no word here in the US. Tags: HTC+Shift
Nothing like seeing a device under glass at a trade show. jkkmobile has some pics of the Inventec UMPC 7–A from CeBit. Check out more here. Tags: Inventec+UMPC+7-A
UMPCPortal.com has some good pictures and hands-on reports on Asus’ newest UMPC – the R70A Specs: 1.6 ghz Centrino Atom – reports are that is slow, like a 900 mhz Celeron 1024 x 600 hard touch screen Embedded 3G 4 hour battery life
Silverthorne and Menlow have officially been named Atom and Centrino Atom, respectively Press Release: The Intel ® Atomâ„¢ processor will be the name for a new family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and a new class of simple and affordable Internet-centric computers arriving later this year. Together, these new market [...]
I have been to WIPTE the past 2 years and I can say that it’s been a great place to hang out and meet other Tablet PC folks focused on education. This year’s event has now been scheduled for October 15-16 and information is up on their site. WIPTE is open to anyone with an [...]
This probably voided his warranty, but an enterprising hacker by the name of ‘guryhwa’ has posted details of how he replaced his Eee PC’s Celeron processor with a Pentium-M. Note, this technique is not for the faint of heart…
Well, I guess that’s confidence. HP must think they’ve got a winner on their hands, and I’m surely hoping they do. According to reports from DigiTimes they’ve ordered up 2 million of the yet to be released Compaq 2133 UMPCs that we and everybody have been following. As Engadget points out, that’s 10% of HP’s [...]
We got a chance to see the NanoBook reference design for ultraportables at CES, including the tote along removable Skype phone. The Tango X from Sungjut follows that design spec, but is adding a Touch Screen, and an intriguing way to handle some of the complaints about a screen that doesn’t fold down or flip [...]
CeBit 2008 is just around the corner and information is starting to come out about UMPCs and MIDs ahead of the show. Both jkkmobile and UMPCPortal’s Steve “Chippy” Paine look they are heading to CeBit so I’m sure we’ll see lots of great coverage from both of them. (I hope they have time to do [...]
Several UMPCs have been in the news lately, some in a positive manner, and some not so. First up, The Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium UMPC appears to be shipping from a few retailers and getting into users hands. Head over to the Origami Project forums for a list of retailers and at least one early [...]
I may be getting senile and we may have mentioned this before but I’m coming up dry searching for it. No matter, TechTicker is running some hands on pictures and thoughts on HCL’s MiLiap Y series, which comes in both an X series (900MHz Celeron processor) and a Y series (A110 Processor). It comes with [...]
Remember the supposed Samsung P9 UMPC Concept video we ran the other day? CTitanic was very excited by this, but even then we had our doubts. Turns out out doubt-o-meter was correct. It is indeed a concept, and not even from Samsung. Too bad. One of the prettiest concepts we’ve seen. Tags: UMPC
Things just keep hopping about HP’s Compaq 2133 UMPC that may or may no be due this spring. We’ve reached out to HP but so far the slience is deafening. Of course that just breeds more speculation, so maybe one day these companies will learn that lesson. See The HTC Shift story. But anyway, this [...]
We mentioned the HP UMPC the other day and now it looks like Engadget has gotten their hands on some pictures and specs on the device. The HP Compaq 2133 is called a “lifestyle accessory” according to Engadget, and comes with a 8.9 inch screen running a 1366×766 WGA resolution. Other specs include and ExpressCard [...]
CTitanic leads his post about this video of the Samsung P9 UMPC with the following: Everything that you know or you may have seen about UMPCs is nothing compare to what you are about to see in this next video > I’m not sure, given that we don’t know much about specs and details, if [...]
Crave is reporting that HP might be releasing an UMPC this spring. While specs aren’t available from the article, some intriguing surmising is. Here’s a quote: In fact, according to one HP staff, “you won’t even need to consider this purchase. You’ll buy it like a handphone without a thought”. At this price range, we [...]
We’ve talked in the past about the blurring lines (and horrible branding) when it comes to mobile devices like MIDs, UMPCs, and the like. It looks like those blurry lines are going to continue to become even more fuzzy from the Personal Media Player (PMP) sector. Electronista is reporting that Archos is readying a new [...]
Looks like HTC is finally shipping the Shift, at least in Europe. Word is it is now available in Europe for 1119 euros. It also comes with the new Origami Experience 2.0 included and from what I’m reading still only 2 hours of battery life. Now, when is it going to head to this side [...]
Yes, the phrase is borrowed from Apple, but Intel also looks to put the Internet in your pocket with the introduction of the MIDs running on the Silverthorne processor. The Menlow platform is comprised of the Silverthorne processor and Poulsbo chipset. Wired has a provoking article that leads off with some great info on the [...]
GBM reader Gavin Miller sent us a link to Register Hardware, where they claim the HTC Shift will actually go on sale at Expansys.com on Feb 19. Expansys is a UK based retailer who also sells in the US. (The former MobilePlanet.com now links to Expansys USA.) Checking the US site, it appears the device [...]
Steve Van der Hoeven, Fortune Fountain‘s Product Manager for DialKeys , has written a GottaBeMobile.com guest tutorial on how to take pictures with your UMPC and have them automatically uploaded to Flickr – all using DialKeys Gen 2. Utilizing GPS, the pictures also get geo tagged. Read the full tutorial here. Up until now the [...]
As everyone eagerly awaits the first shipping MIDs, we have to appease ourselves with what news we can get, and this is an interesting nugget. One Voice Technologies, Inc. released an announcement today that they will be demoing voice control for MIDs at the Mobile World Congress conference next week. Obviously voice control has been [...]
The man behind the UMPC, Otto Berkes, has written a blog entry about his thoughts on the Asus Eee PC that is worth a read. The title? Sweet Spot. Here’s an excerpt: “The Eee adheres to some of the core tenets of the ultra-mobile PC – a low-cost, highly mobile, full-fidelity companion computer. In fact, [...]
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