Gail Levy of TabletKiosk has an interesting post about the UMPC is Dead meme. Her point is a good one. UMPCs may in fact be well on their way out as a consumer device, but she still sees some life in the 7 inch Tablet PC form factor. From her perspective within TabletKiosk, they are [...]
I don’t know if this means WiBrain is out of the woods yet, or things are just simply confusing. Yesterday we picked up on reports from UMPCPortal and other sources suggesting that it looked like WiBrain might be folding their tents. This morning, Steve “Chippy” Paine reports that the latest WiBrain i1 is being shipped [...]
Lots of confusion about what is or is not going on with WiBrain this morning. According to Steve “Chippy” Paine at UMPCPortal, WiBrain might be going out of business.
AMtek has what appears to be a new UMPC – the T10L Touch. No word on pricing, availability, etc, or when T10L Touch might see the light of day, but here is an overview of the specs:
Remember the Asus R50a UMPC that we told you about in January? Well, it appears Asus wasted no time at all in bringing it to market and, in an apparent attempt to actually not sell any, has priced it $1,839. For that price you get: 1.33GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 32GB SSD [...]
Last week we told you that Steve “Chippy” Paine at UMPCPortal was running a four part Buying Guide for Ultra-Mobiles. The series is some terrific work on Steve’s part. Well, if you want to take a look at it off-line now you can. He’s put it together in a PDF file for you to download [...]
There may have been others, but this is the first report of Windows 7 running on an early (read Celeron processor) Samsung Q1 UMPC that I have seen. Ian Dixon gave it a whirl and says the experience was certainly better than installing Vista on the device. Of course there were some issues, but was [...]
There’s a meetup happening in Cologne, Germany, sponsored by Eee PC News and EeePC.de and Steve “Chippy” Paine is on the scene and has captured video of the plethora of Netbooks that brought their owners to the party. From the looks of things, the Eee PC models outnumber the rest, but there are quite a [...]
Steve “Chippy” Paine and UMPCPortal have gone to a lot of work (with more to come) to create an Ultra-Mobile Computing Buying Guide. Part I is up with three more parts scheduled for publication. Part I covers a pretty darned good history of small devices and provides some great context for the ongoing debates about [...]
Sometimes it is enough to stoke the gadget lust fires just to look at pictures. Sometimes doing so makes you go check your credit card balances. Sometimes you just drool. UMPCFever had a recent gathering and the pictures and videos they have of the event reveal enough mobile devices to make any self-respecting geek get [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
