17Apr2006
Posted by Joe
in Analysis and General.
There were a lot of discussions about the target market for the UMPCs. We even had a poll asking “Where do you think UMPC will fit in the Most?” with Personal, Business, Education and All of these as choices and about 50% felt it was a personal device. Now Darrly of Geekzone explores the posibilities of UMPCs on the Sky, If you are thinking as your personal device as a passenger you might not have all the fun (may be for about 2 to 3 hours with current batteries) But as a Pilot device this thing might rock! (well i’m not a pilot either. so if you are one, it might)
Interesting enough jkOnTheRun has a posting on Ultra Mobiles being used on aircrafts (this was with a Sony U-50/70 ultra-portable PC). So what do you think?
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17Apr2006
Posted by Joe
in Contests.
Well well well, what do we have here, Origami Project has a contest “I Love UMPC” on. Go ahead, who knows you might be one of the winners to walk away with a Samsung Q1 UMPC and a Sling Player.
Write an essay (no more than 250 words!) telling us why you think the UMPC concept is so great and what plans you have for yours once you get one. We’re looking for entries that fit the theme and are creative and original, and for our sanity, it helps if they’re well-written too. 
Yeah Yeah! we know, it sucks when UMPCians in other countries (other than the US) can not participate. Sorry guys ! So does that look like somthing you want, go ahead give it a shot. (if you a legal resident of the US)
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14Apr2006
Posted by Joe
in Analysis.
TG Daily has a nice article covering the major things that happened in the past week and the pricing.
Seoul (South Korea) - The Korea Herald reported Friday morning, Seoul time, that Samsung, Microsoft, and Intel have jointly announced the price and availability of the first UMPC to reach retail stores worldwide, Samsung’s Q1, unveiled last month in a worldwide event, and at the CeBIT show in Hannover. It will be available on 1 May (ironically, in “Q2″) under the brand name “Sens Q1,” and will sell for a suggested $1,250, though some sources are reporting pre-orders are being taken for as high as $1,400.
While sources following the UMPC scene - if there is one - are casting new theories about the possible rising cost of the new form factor, a Samsung source told the Herald that observers should take into account that the company’s own mainstream laptop system, the Q30, sells for easily twice that amount (about $2,500) in Korea.
Samsung’s Q1 UMPC
This news came as one of the new UMPC blogs trumpeted an announcement from Averatec, that had apparently been delayed days earlier, of a UMPC system called the AHI. Like the Q1, the AHI would run on an ultra-low-voltage Celeron processor, have Windows XP Tablet PC Edition pre-installed, and promises a battery life of six hours - instead of the 15 minutes the Q1 prototypes were displaying at CeBIT. The price, according to a source who had attended an Averatec briefing - and had taken home slides to prove it - would be just over $1,000, and may first sell to the European market [...] | Read on
Source [ TGDaily ]
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14Apr2006
Posted by Joe
in Samsung.
Finally, it was first in UK then for Korea and then for US. Well we are hoping the price would be a lot less than what we have been seeing for Q1s.
CNET reports
Samsung has scheduled an event for next month to mark the U.S. release of its Q1 ultramobile PC, the first brand-name device to launch using Microsoft’s Origami concept.
The Korean electronics giant did not offer any new details on the product in its e-mail invitation to journalists, but said it would launch the product at an event in San Francisco on May 1.
Samsung showed off the tiny tablet at the CeBit trade show in Germany in March, ending weeks of intense speculation over Origami. Microsoft and Intel also both talked separately about their visions for the category of devices, which they hope will someday amount to a device that costs as little as several hundred dollars and has all-day battery life [...]
Source [CNET News] Via Engadget
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13Apr2006
Posted by Joe
in Averatec and Hardware.
We had Samsung, Asus and Founder, Then came the TabletKiosk and the SmartCaddie. Wish the talks about toshiba becomes true, but as we reported a few days back about the Avertec AHI, being a kind of UMPC, today engadget talks about it too.
Though this devidce does not fit in exact definition of an UMPC but well has all that you need. Wondering though why does all these gadget come in only 2 colors White and Black, be it iPod or TabletKiosk or this Avertec!
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