Tag Archive for 'umpc'
Take some known innovators in the tech world, put them in a room with some felt-tip pens, paper and the command to mash up a few topical niches, and you might end up with the seven-strong group that today announced their intention to bring a Linux-based UMPC to the market in early 2009.
As product sneak-previews go, this one will be hard to stretch: so far all we really know about Tronic’s PMG-03 UMPC is that it runs Microsoft Vista with one of VIA’s ultra-low voltage CPUs, has a 5-inch touchscreen, the VX800 chipset and - somewhat obviously - a slide out QWERTY keyboard.
With a quiet bang HTC have launched their European site for the Shift UMPC. Packing enough connectivity to confuse a network admin - it has 3G/HSDPA, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 - as well as Microsoft Vista and a 7-inch touchscreen, the price may not be tiny at €1,200 ($1,700) but then neither is the [...]
There is the 14.1” F8S that weighs 5.5 pounds. It has a C2D T7500 processor, 2GB of DDR2, 1GB of Turbo Memory from Intel, a Radeo HD2600 mobile with 512MB of video RAM, 250GB HDD, WiFi of the a, g, and n varieties, and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR.
Next is the R2E, a 7” UMPC that has [...]
With sales of Vulcan’s FlipStartsuper-compact PC branching out into Europe, the team behind it is doing their damnedest to make sure the device doesn’t fall into the same trap so many other niche products have succumbed to: “it’s a great toy, but what do I use it for?” Mobile pro’s in need of image [...]
Sony’s historically cavalier attitude towards product naming - sometimes dozens of different names for different locations and slight hardware changes - and tendency to suddenly discontinue products has left fans nervous of changes in the company’s catalogue; when the UX-series UMPC disappeared earlier this month there was as much talk of the project being canned as [...]
As UMPC manufacturers put their embarrassing early attempts behind them, it’s interesting to see what direction each takes as they refresh their model lines and try to cater for that elusive “mobile professional”. While Samsung caved to the QWERTY brigade and included a dinky thumb-keyboard, ASUS is standing proudly by their touchscreen-or-the-highway morals with their [...]
If you’re working up close and personal with the next-gen of gadgetry and hardware (or even the gen-after-next if you’re really lucky) then the temptation must always be to blurt it out and share the joy; that’s obviously what has happened to Intel, who set up their Channel Intel project last week and are already [...]
It weighs less than two pounds and has a touch screen which seems to be the more important qualifications for a UMPC. On top of that there is a full keyboard, no num pad though.
The screen is seven inches and has a resolution of 800×480. The StudentMate has both WiFi and Ethernet connectivity options. It [...]
If you need connectivity everywhere, but don’t want to carry around a bulky laptop, then chances are you’ve considered a UMPC. The good news for those that are still considering one is that OQO has updated their 02 lineup.
