Tag: UMPC
The Future of Mobile Computing?
This is Intel’s take on the future of mobile computing. These slick devices will have impeccable speech recognition and connect seamlessly to your watch, your car and your home. Will notebooks and keyboards be a thing of the past? I wonder how long it will take for today’s clunky and expensive UMPCs to evolve [...]
OQO Model 02 Gets Verizon EVDO
OQO will offer its the model 02 computer with integrated EVDO Wireless WAN capability compatible with the Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess service.
Samsung Q1 UMPC Solid State Disk
Greg Berg from Samsung shows off the Q1P Ultra Mobile PC with a 32 GB Solid State Disk (SSD). Samsung’s SSD is shock and pressure resistant, while offering faster seek times and lower power consumption. There is quite a premium for the SSD, with the Samsung Q1P starting at $1,999. Samsung’s Q1 with rotational hard [...]
OQO 02 UMPC Ready for Preorder
The OQO 02 is the world’s smallest fully-featured Windows XP machine. It features a 1.5GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, integrated EVDO wireless broadband, active digitizer touchscreen, touch-sensitive scroll-area, and an outdoor-readable 5″ TFT. The OQO 02 is available for preorder from dynamism.com.
UMPC-ish thing…
The S-XGen from Seamless Internet has got to be one of the most clunky device we’ve seen. What the company calls “radically designed” and a “PDA on Steroids” features a fold-out keyboard and runs on Windows CE. The thing is bulky, like a brick and what annoys me most about this product is the [...]
A Tablet PC Wedding
Tech blogger Chris Pirillo got married recently and was able to convince his bride to read their vows off a pair Tablet PCs. He picked up a pair of TabletKiosks v7110 UMPCs for the ceremony.
Samsung Launches First Notebook and UMPC with NAND Flash-based Solid State Disk
Samsung will release the world’s first PCs embedded with a 32 GB NAND flash-based solid state disk.This marks the first time that NAND flash has moved into a commercial mobile computing application and is a breakthrough that will pave the way for replacing hard disk drives with NAND flash-based memory disks. The Samsung Q1, an [...]
UltraConfusing PC’s
Samsung Electronics, Intel and Microsoft Korea execs couldn’t get a simple presentation to work on a Samsung Q1 UMPC to work during a press conference.
Samsung to Ship $700 Ultra Mobile PC
Prices for Ultra Mobile PC’s have crept up from the few hundred dollars range, to the mid-$1,000 range.
