12Apr2007
Frank more known as CTitanic has been hinting that he was busy doing something and today he says it all. He has also released the HID drivers for Samsung Q1. If you are wondering why you need those drivers? Get the answer here.
Sometimes it’s sad to read stuff like
I included a readme.txt file with instructions, please follow them. Remember, this is a “AS IS” release, and even when I can guarantee that it works you ARE ON YOUR OWN. Do not count on Samsung for help (these guys are busy making money) and do not bother EETI either (these guys are really busy doing a good job).
Great Stuff Frank — Details & Download here
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12Apr2007
It’s a great news, If you’ve been following the UMPCs you sure know him. He has been an evangelist for the Tablet PC and UMPCs.
Today Hugo Ortega & GottaBeMobile announced that they are adding their first international member to their team — “Hugo”. Sure enough we’ll see more vidoes and and InkShows from them.
Congrats guys.
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12Apr2007
Posted by Joe
in Shopping, Sony and Specs.
Well these are Refurnished units but were / are sold as new for $1800. This is a great deal.
HOLD ON: If you apply for the Sony Card, you get $100 off your first order and 900 X 5 = 9500 points (that’s another $45 off) making the final price to $855 — Sweet!
Specs:
- Intel® Core™ Solo Processor U1400 (1.20GHz1 , 2MB L2 Cache)
- Genuine Windows® XP Professional (Service Pack 2)
- Front Side Bus Speed 533MHz
- Intel® 945GMS
- Integrated Wireless LAN
- Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (802.11a/b/g)
- Integrated Wireless Wide Area Network (WAN)132 accessing Cingular Wireless National EDGE Network with SmartWi™ technology
- Bluetooth® Technology
- 4.5” Wide5 SVGA LCD, Touch Screen (1024×600)
- 30GB4 4200rpm Ultra ATA Hard Drive with G-Sensor™ Shock Protection - Hard Disk Drive Protection
- 512MB PC2-3200 400MHz DDR2 SDRAM
- Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with 128MB dynamically allocated shared RAM/Video memory
- Fast Ethernet 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX (RJ-45)
- Sound System — Windows® sound system compatible with Built-in monaural speakers
- Microphone jack, Headphone jack
- Memory Stick® Media Slot — 1 - Supports Optional Memory Stick DUO™ media with MagicGate® functionality
- Other Interfaces — 1 USB 2.0 port, port replicator connector, DC-in (1)
- 64 keys with 0.15mm stroke and 8.6mm pitch
- Mouse Left, Mouse Right, Scroll, Magnify Screen (Zoom In/Out), Capture, Center Button, Wireless LAN On/Off, VAIO Touch Launcher
- Power Requirements — 41W+10%
- Standard Battery: 2.5-4.5 hours13
- 2 Built-in Cameras (front: 0.3M pixels and back: 1.3M pixels)
- Built-in microphone
- Biometric Fingerprint Sensor
Supplied Accessories
- Cingular SIM Card
- Standard Lithium-ion battery (VGP-BPS6)
- AC Adapter (VGP-AC16V7)
- Port Replicator (VGP-PRUX1) - 1 4-pin i.LINK® interface6, 3 USB 2.0, Ethernet, VGA-Out, A/V-out and DC-in
- Soft Carrying Case
- Power Cord
- Stylus
- VGA/LAN Adapter - Ethernet, VGA-Out and A/V-Out
- Strap
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10Apr2007
Stevy has it, no no not that Stevy — Steve of UMPC Portal. The Samsung Q1 Ultra had wonderful things to say about, when they lunched the product at CeBIT. There is no official word from Samsung on the availability & pricing, but steve says he has it.
Initially it was speculated to be a whopping $2400 and now looks like it is getting the actual price point.
…Samsung have told our contacts that they have now fixed their Q1 roadmap and that the base Q1 Ultra with HSDPA will be offered for 1200 Euro. I’m almost reluctant so say that again because it sounds too good to be true. Especially after all the pricing chaos of earlier today. But as I’ve been assured that this is the final price and 100% conrrect info, I’m going to go out on a limb and say it again.
Q1 Ultra with HSDPA - 1200 Euro. Availability in May 2007 (thats around US $1600)
Q1 Ultra now 1200 Euro. May availability | Pre-Order in Germany
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06Apr2007
Posted by Joe
in Analysis and Hardware.
We’ve been hearing about the new Intel platform for UMPC for sometime now. Today HKEPC gives us more details about the product. This is codenamed “McCaslin” and to be released 18th of this month. They are reporting a while lot of details some of which are too hard to believe, but really encouraging — like by 2010 Intel expects 10% of the total PC users to be using UMPCs.
…McCaslin adopts the north bridge codenamed Little River, which occupied a space of 22mmx22mm, and approximately 34% of space is freed when compared to the previous model. Little River also supports 400MHz FSB and DDR-2 400 memory modules up to 1GB. In addition, Little River contains Intel GMA X3000 and supports the DirectX 9.0c, as well as achieves Vista Premium. On the other side, the south bridge adopts ICH 7U which is the simplified version of ICH7-M. ICH 7U supports 8 groups of USB 2.0 ports, occupied space is 15mmx15mm, and around 77% space is saved…
Intel expectes the share of UMPC in the PC market will continually go up and score around 10% raising or above by 2010. Therefore Intel has sketched out the detailed future plan for UMPC. By the 2nd quarter of 2008, the Menlow platform will be launched, and all spaces will be further shrunken as the single-ship design will be adopted by the chipsets. The processor will also shift to the 45nm manufacturing. In 2009, memory controller and IGP engine will be further integrated into the processor, and new chipsets will be taken up. It is expected that efficiency will be heightened 2 times when compared to that of two years before, and the runtime of battery will be greatly heightened to 12 -24 hours.
Intel Launches a Brand-New UMPC Platform: Stealey Walking to Micromation [via engadget]
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