04Jun2006
Posted by Joe
in Software.
John Takosh should have called it the UMPC Button Profile Manager, anyways it does the job, remember the trouble with remapping those buttons that he had shared a few days back. Yes after some solid time with it he has come out with a Software that does the job for ya, Best of all it’s FREE.
Tablet Button Profile Manager (tbpm) is a utility designed for users of Microsoft Windows XP, Tablet Edition. It is especially useful for owners of Origami (UMPC) devices.
Tablet PCs often have a few buttons that can be mapped with the Tablet Settings/Tablet Buttons control panel. For users who like to change these mappings frequently, the control panel is cumbersome. TBPM helps keep track of the groups of Tablet Button settings you like to switch between and automates those settings.
Great Job & Thanks for sharting Takosh. Grab a Copy for yourself
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04Jun2006
When Gates announced the prices of UMPCs to be atound $500, we were having high hopes. When the actual first product (UMPC) from Samsung arrived it way too much at $1100. Then there was the TabletKiosk with the Via Chips that was less than a Grand starting at $900. Now comes the interesting part how about UMPCs that are around $700 or less - sounds great right… TMC Net reports that
After seeing the unsatisfactory debut of the world’s first Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) this spring, Samsung Electronics is planning to sell the next version of the mini PC at a bargain price, starting this fall.
The upcoming UMPC will hit the market around September at a price under 700,000 won, down from over 1.2 million for the initial Q1 model, a company insider said Friday.
To lower the price, Samsung will use CPUs made by AMD instead of expensive Intel chips, the Samsung official said on condition of anonymity. Also, subsidies from KT for its WiBro wireless Internet service contract may help drop the price further, he said [...]
Read the Full article at [TMC Net]
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02Jun2006
Well we’ve read a lot of reviews now, this one on the other hand does not give us a good idea about the device… You know it’s their opinion (named here as a review) and every one of us have our own.
When we first began testing the Q1, we found that having to touch the icons, rather than pointing and clicking, takes a lot of unlearning. As the novelty of the Q1 wore off and the frustration wore on, we became rather disenchanted. We could not find any real purpose in using it [...]
Verdict: While a few things impressed us about the Q1, we think the price is exorbitant for a hand-held device that has no clearly discernable purpose. Maybe a second generation Q2 will make a better impression [...]
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02Jun2006
Posted by Joe
in Hardware and Samsung.
Gizmodo has posted some good quality pics of the unboxing of the Q1.
They also say that it’s a review unit, so we should be having another detailed review of the Q1 anytime.
View the Pics at [Gizmodo]
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02Jun2006
Remember the post that we had yesterday about the new Sony approval on the FCC, looks like it might be just the temp name for the Vaio UX180 that will be sold and listed on Sony’s Website.
Reggie of MicroPC Talk, prompted us (thanks reggie) that it’s the UX and nothing else and interestingly that sony might have been working on such a product even before microsoft announced the UMPC.
While the FCC shows that they have approved a Sony handheld device with model number PCG-1J1L, we believe that this is the Sony Vaio UX180P. PCG-1J1L is obviously a temporary model number since nowhere in all the
FCC documents mentioned �Vaio� when the image found in one of the documents clearly has a Vaio brand at the back (�aio� visible) .
It is also interesting to note that Sony requested confidentiality of the device from the FCC on March 24, 2006, only a few days after the official announcement of the UMPC. This might mean that Sony was already hard at work designing their Micro PC probably way before the UMPC concept
was even thought of.
Check out the image which compares the FCC pic with the Vaio UX. Micro PC Talk has added arrows to show how the the PCG-1J1L is exactly as that of the Vaio UX 180P (VGN-UX180P)
Read the full article at [MicroTalk PC]
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