14Mar2006
Posted by Joe
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The Origami Project Team lead Dustin has an article, which has more information and answers for lot of our questions like
- Does the origami have instant on?
- Origami doesn’t have Voice Recognition for better accessability!
- Apple is better and their products are sexier and better designed!
- No one will look twice at a device that has a life of 3 hours.
- I still see a big disappointment: where is the good old keyboard?
- Is there any restriction on being able to download iTunes to this?
- I’ve seen it asked “Will Vista run well on the UPMC?”
Read the full post @ Origami Project
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14Mar2006
Posted by Joe
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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
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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
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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
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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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