12Jun2006
Posted by Joe
in Hardware.
Remember BoBos, yes looks like Mo-Bits is going to launch their UMPCs soon, Carrypad reports
The UMPC’s are both VIA-C7-M based devices with the new VIA CX700 integrated north/southbridge chipset with hardware MPEG-4 and WMV-9 decoding support. (not just mpeg-2 as in the eo and Easybook UMPC’s.)
Also very interesting is the LAN port, the TV-out port and the SD card slot. These are three things that a lot of people wanted on the Tablet Kiosk Eo / Paceblade Easybook P7 devices.
The synaptics mouse pointer is included (a proven advantage on the eo and Easybook) along with fingerprint sensor and options for Camera/GPS/DVB-T/DVB-H modules on board. DVB-T would be great in Europe for the World Cup right now!
Read More at [Carrypad]
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10Jun2006
Posted by Joe
in Onlyumpc.
Thanks to all our readers, your support is the most inportant thing that keeps us rolling. I was working on a new design (for about a week now) to basically have a 3 coloumn site what can sport more information than what we had. Finally here is the new refreshing site.
Oh, BTW the previous logo was originally designed for “Only Origami” with the double “O” in mind, but then you know, all you need is an identity so changed that a bit. I’m still working on the Styles of the Forum, it might take a week to be updated.Feel free to comment and add your feedback.
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10Jun2006
Posted by Joe
in Analysis.
Inquirer has an article that simple states “UMPC - a disaster” Again, this is not the first time that we are hearing something like this, but in anycase they have a point. This is the first generation of UMPCs and sure enough there are going to be more and more umps which would be better, faster, efficient and lower cost.
From the marketing point of view, the UMPC is an attempt to create a new market. But it is not a empty market. It is occupied at one end by notebook PCs, and at the other by smartphones and PDAs. UMPC users already have experience with these devices, and they naturally try to use the UMPC in the same way [...]
The companies manufacturing UMPCs now are doing it to gain experience. They hope that the concept will take off eventually, and they will then be ahead of the pack.
Two things have to happen to make the Origami UMPC dream succeed. First, Microsoft should actually do what it claims to know best: write good software that meets users’ requirements. The current one-size-fits all approach isn’t right for UMPCs.
That’s tough, but the second step is even tougher. The UMPC really needs a lot of technological progress. Lighter, more efficient batteries would change everything. In the interim, new low-power components, like white LED screen backlights, and flash-based hard drives, will help too [...]
Well, again this article does discuss lot of factors which might sound appealing to a big crowd, I think we’ll have to just wait for the dream UMPC which again could be the “Haiku” project that microsoft is talking about.
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09Jun2006
Posted by Joe
in Analysis.
Rob of Paperless Undergrad (paperlessundergrad.co.uk) has a very interesting post on the UMPC. Obvious enough he likes the Tablets a lot (look at this domain name again). Rob goes with describing what aspects of the UMPC he likes and does not.
Well I battened down the hatches while the Internet literally rained UMPC (codename Origami) talk these past few months and I chose to keep quiet on the subject. However with the recent spate of first class video reviews hitting our ‘screens’ (such as Kevin Tofel’s excellent ongoing review of the Q1 and James Kendrick’s and Akihabaranews’ review of the Sony UX50) I’ve had the opportunity, albeit in a virtual sense, to see what these beasties have to offer. So if it is at all possible to pass an opinion based solely on third party interaction (probably not) and if the view of a lowly student end user, although one that feverously strives towards paperless living, is of interest to anyone then follow the jump to hear my take on this whole UMPC scene [...]
It’s worth, go ahead Read on
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09Jun2006
Posted by Joe
in Analysis and Software.
You bet, with such a portablity and the form factor Vongo is the perfect software for downloading and enjoying Movies. jkOnTheRun goes ahead with it and shares the good and bad about it.
I did run into two immediate problems, but found resolutions to both. If you’re beta testing the Office 2007 suite like I am you’ll have a .dll conflict when trying to run Vongo. A quick search online turned up the solution of renaming the offending .dll. I did that and Vongo launched without a problem; additionally, I’ve seen no ill-effects in Office 2007 as of yet.
The second problem had me totally confounded for about three days. After choosing a movie to download, the title would show up in my Vongo Download Manager and then simply disappear. No error message, no warning, it just disappeared. Thinking it was firewall related, I made changes and opened some ports to Vongo per some technical support information, but nothing seemed to help. This issue wasn’t just on the Q1; it was on my desktop as well, so I knew it wasn’t specifically related to the UMPC [..]
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