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SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 22 2011

Chris Burns — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:44:16 +0000

Well hello there all you morning readers, haven’t seen you around for a while! We’ve been to Barcelona and back and now we’re back in the New York Groove to get you all the news you want in the tiny package you love the best – SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up! Have a look at a HTC Inspire 4G Review, the winners of the Android Community Big Fat Android Toy Giveaway #1, and the Motorola XOOM Street Egg Ad that’ll swallow you up whole! Don’t forget the odd Motorola Roadster [In-Car Bluetooth Speakerphone] Review – talk in your car all day! Have a look at a slew of Lenovo item releases: the ThinkPad W520 quadcore desktop replacement, the Lenovo ThinkPad T420s, T420 and T520, and the Lenovo ThinkPad L420 and L520 entry-level notebooks. All of them very black with a red nose. Then while you’re mind is still at it, get the official price of the Verizon released Motorola XOOM.

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SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 22 2011 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Vega not in vogue at pocketables

Chris Davies — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:44:42 +0000

SlashGear loves reviewers that tell it like it is – whether that be waxing lyrical about the latest must-have product to steal their heart, or heaping scorn onto flawed and fail-worthy rubbish. So it’s good to see Jenn over at pocketables pulling exactly zero punches in her review of the Vega UMPC, Raon Digital’s WinXP-running handheld PC with a 4.3-inch passive touchscreen.

Despite lacking internal WiFi or Bluetooth, the Vega has managed to score pretty well in past reviews, so if there’s any overall lesson to be learnt here it’s that the success of any mobile device is vastly dependent on the needs and lifestyle of the individual using it. Jenn criticises the no-longer-competitive price ($879 from Dynamism, in her case), sub-par text-entry methods, unattractive design and poor performance as an impromptu laptop-replacement.

The USB WiFi adaptor Raon Digital supply does the job, but it’s not exactly an aesthetically pleasing or convenient solution – seriously, couldn’t they find a more suitably shaped device?

Review: Raon Digital Vega [pocketables]

Vega not in vogue at pocketables is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Getting your car connected – Vega as a Carputer

Chris Davies — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:29:21 +0000

People have been putting computers into their cars for years now, and manufacturers are playing (slow) catch-up themselves, but for the DIYer it’s generally been a tricky bout of origami fitting all the screens, boxes and cables in for a neat install. Well, Microsoft -perhaps unwittingly - made things a whole lot easier with, ironically, their Origami concept (later to become UMPC, the butt of many myopic reviewers’ scorn); a full computer with a seven inch touchscreen that manufacturers are often offering with an in-car mount. All of a sudden it’s ridiculously easy to put a PC in your car, and then the struggle becomes picking the right hardware and interface software for your needs. Enter Steve over at The Carrypad UMPC Journal.

Steve is currently trying out how well the Raon Digital Vega UMPC works in his daily ride, and has posted the first of a series of three articles designed to help budding carputerists find the best system for them. Well worth keeping an eye on if you’ve ever thought “it’d be really useful to have GPS/my music collection/internet connection right now”.

Carputer Day at Carrypad. Pt1 of 3 [The Carrypad UMPC Journal]

Getting your car connected – Vega as a Carputer is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Raon Digital Vega gets a thorough thumbing

Chris Davies — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:11:15 +0000

So we’ve had the unboxing, now comes the nitty-gritty. The good folks over at the Carrypad UMPC Portal have done a full-on review of the Raon Digital Vega UMPC, and found that - while the lack of built-in bluetooth or wifi is a chore – it’s a great addition to a mobile lifestyle. Of particular note is their section on using the Vega as an in-car entertainment and navigation tool.

Raon Digital Vega review [Carrypad UMPC Portal]

Raon Digital Vega gets a thorough thumbing is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Exclusive Unboxing Video: Raon Digital Vega Ultra Mobile PC

Vincent Nguyen — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:57:21 +0000

Hurry, click, click the video below to watch Hugo Ortega (misguided yet very lucky dude) the man of the hour just got the shiny, new Vega UMPC by Raon Digital. Instead of ripping the box apart, he waited to capture the unboxing experience for the rest of world to lust over. Thanks Hugo – a job well done. Also big thanks to everyone that sent this into SlashGear. Click over for the video (183MB, 25 minutes)!

Exclusive Unboxing Video: Raon Digital Vega Ultra Mobile PC

Hugo Ortega gets to New UPPC [via UMPC Buzz]

Exclusive Unboxing Video: Raon Digital Vega Ultra Mobile PC is written by Vincent Nguyen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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More Specs and Pics on the Vega UMPC

Vincent Nguyen — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:26:28 +0000

Korean company Raon Digital listed their one and only product – the Vega UMPC on their website. I know we’ve covered this device on SlashGear, but the follow-up with more info and images will help give you a better view of the product. It’s a shame it doesn’t have an integrated keyboard of some sort.
View the entire product specs after the jump.

Microsoft Windows XP Home

CPU

AMD Goede LX800
Cache Memory – L1 64KB-I / 64KB-D L2 128KB
Instruction set – X86 + Integrate FPU + intel MMX + AMD 3Dnow
Main Memory – DDR400 / PC3200 256MB
Main Chipset – AMD CS5536

HDD

Toshiba 1.8″ 30GB 4200 rpm

Graphics

High Performance 2D graphics controller
Microsoft Windows GDI GUI acceleration
Hardware screen rotation
Video Processor – Video scaling / Mixing / VOP
Display Controller – Upto 1920×1440x32bpp 85Hz

Sound

RealTek ALC203
EAX / DirectSound3D / A3D / I3DL2 compatible
Speaker – 0.7W + 0.7W stero speaker
Headphone – 50mW / 20 Ohm
Microphone – 1 internal / External mono jack

LCD

4.3″ (93.6×56.16mm) WVGA
800×480 resolution 16M color 60Hz
Contrast Ratio / Luminance – 400:1 / 200cd/m2
Viewing Angle – 80 / 80

Battery

Li-Ion 10.8V 3300 mAH standard pack
Li-Ion 10.8V 1100 mAH compact pack
Battery Life – Upto 5.5 Hrs (standard pack), 1.8 Hrs (compact pack)
Charge Time – 3Hrs (80% charge)

Physical

Dimension – 160×80×27.5mm (standard pack)
Dimension – 160×80×22.5mm (compact pack)
Weight – 480g/350g (standard/compact)

Vega UMPC works with GPS [Via NaviGadget]

Vega – a tiny UMPC for tinier wallets

Chris Davies — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:14:32 +0000

The glitz, the glamour, drunkenly ringing your step-mom at 3am to tell her you’ve married a transgendered hooker called Analise… it’s the high-tack spirit of Las Vegas that Raon Digital has summoned to perfectly gloss the latest on the “is that a PC in your pocket?” catwalk. Flaunting the same 800×480 resolution of its UMPC brethren, only squeezed into a UX50-alike 4.5 inch screen, this “Ultra Portable PC” appears to have pitched its tent firmly in the multimedia/gaming camp. Noble aims, but given reviewers’ general lack of excitement when hands-on with the first generation of UMPCs, you’d be forgiven for harbouring step-mom-like suspicions that the relationship between gamer and Vega won’t last.

Like Analise, however, the Vega has a few hidden surprises, not least under the hood. For there, glistening proudly, lies AMD’s oh-so-special Geode LX800 processor with its cluster of graphics wizardry, capable of spitting out 3D graphics that might have some PSP owners wondering what they’d get for trade-in. Because here’s the kicker: Raon Digital are hinting at a bargainous $700 for the Vega, nicely undercutting far-chunkier UMPCs. Okay, you could pick up a few PSPs for that, or – as naysayers will doubtless bleat – one of Sony’s finest and a cheap laptop from BestBuy, but how likely are you to whip your laptop out on the subway to check email, or bother hooking up a DMB tuner (one of the Vega’s optional accessories) to watch TV? Add that to the 5.5hr promised battery life and the deal gets sweeter.

The big question, of course, is when. Lucky Korea gets the Vega sometime in September, apparently, with International release “very likely”. We could sob over the few specific details, yes, or we could concentrate on saving up our milk money. After all, you could spend more on an Elvis-themed wedding.

Gadget Korea [via GottaBeMobile.com]

Two New UMPCs

Chris Davies — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:14:57 +0000

Variety is the spice of life, they say, and unless they’re talking about the drivel that was my high-school Variety Performance I think they’re right. So it’s with baited breath I wait for new models of UMPC, in the hope that one day some clever manufacturer will manage the delicate balance between Alienware performance and Electrovaya battery life.

Innovation takes one step closer to tech nirvana, today, with the announcement of two new UMPCs. Firstly, for those of us who like our computers to be as S&M rubber-clad as our basement dungeons, the Mo-bits VX3 champions “ruggedised design”; so far it’s unknown as to whether that means “you can kick it about on an oil rig and still get a DOS prompt” or is just a fashionable way of describing textured grip panels. What is known is that it’s based on a reference design that will go into production this September (only without the masochist costume) and wields VIA’s clever VX700 chipset that takes the strain off your UMPC’s overtaxed processor by natively supporting WMV and mpeg-4. Clever stuff, if only the software was written to take advantage of it; users of rival UMPC the Easybook P7, also featuring VIA’s native mpeg support, have found that video is just as processor intensive because media software supporting hardware decoding is pretty thin on the ground.

[via Carrypad]