14Mar2006
Posted by Joe
in General.
According to the analysts, the market for UMPCs is fully dependent on the Price & Features; So More features and less price (oh yeah! we are all for it)
While device makers will be determining their own prices, Microsoft is expecting the first generation of devices to be in the $599 to $999 per unit range, officials said.
The new devices are expected to weigh in at less than 2 pounds, with 7-inch screens offering a variety of stylus, touch and keyboard input choices.
Read the full article @ PC Mag
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14Mar2006
Posted by Joe
in General.
Oh Well, we all were kind of settled, thinking the viral campaign of microsoft’s “Origami” was revealed and looks like we are missing something, UMPC Buzz pointed out an interesting article by Paul Thurrott, he says
As predicted, Microsoft’s mysterious Origami project is simply a hardware reference design for a new generation of small Tablet PC devices now called the Ultramobile PC. First revealed at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in 2004, these devices will run on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 and feature 7-inch touchscreen displays. Though touch screen support will be built into the Tablet PC software included with Windows Vista, XP had to be augmented with additional software for this feature to work.
Read the full article of Paul Thurrott [via UMPC Buzz]
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14Mar2006
Posted by Joe
in General.
This is not connected to any hardware or touchpack or anything, thought it would be interesting to share something that we found.
UMPC Buzz had a posting on the domain name which is for sale for $10000.00, and how it sees it [click here to read the article]. There was another posting on UMPC community site, related to the same [read it here]. Now UMPC.com was originally owned by Health Club, which i guess they had it for sale from September 2003 for $1950.00 The price of the domain went up to $3725.00 on March 2005.
No idea on when Intel bought it and for how much but here is how the site looked back then
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14Mar2006
Posted by Joe
in General.
For those of you who visited our previous site OnlyOrigami.com, we had this posted before the UMPC were unveiled. Now that we know what the dimensions of various UMPCs that will hit the stores - here is the comparison again. There should be a way to make these much smaller - Don’t you think ?
Let’s get real: UMPCity (umpct.com) has a great snap of comparing the Nokia and the Samsung Q1, oh BTW both sport the same resolution of 800 X 480 Click here to view it
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14Mar2006
Posted by Joe
in Deals and Shopping.
Oh Well, this is great; except for those few lucky ones at CeBIT no one had really a chance to look at the device (leave alone playing with it) this company is already taking pre-orders
This first-to-market Ultra Mobile PC is the latest technology for people on the go. Sleek and powerful, the TabletKiosk is everything you ever wanted in a mobile PC. Delivery is expected at the end of April and we will ship units on a first-ordered, first-served basis. Pricing on units, memory and hard drive upgrades has not been finalized, but the numbers you see should be very close. Of course, our Allegiance “Happiness Guarantee” is always in effect.
List price is estimated at $899 but this could change depending on the final configuration.
We are not sure when the product would actually start shipping though(they say it’s the end of april): Click here to View the site
UPDATE: Thanks to Layne Heiny who let us know that Martin (TabletKiosk) has not finalized pricing and this is ONLY an estimate
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