11Jan2008
Posted by Joe
in Hardware and Samsung.
Samsung must have been really busy with their mainstream products like TVs and Mobile phone and PMPs, but they managed to squeeze in a premium version of their Q1 ultra UMPC. The interesting thing is the battery life at 7.5 hours!
According to JKK — “The initial Q1 Ultra Premium UMPC – Model: Q1UP-XP, Part Number: NP-Q1U/P01 – is based on the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet Edition operating system, and will be available for an MSRP of $1,399.00. To make room for this new model, Samsung will be lowering the price of their entire family of Q1 Ultra UMPC systems.
Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium gets official [jkkmobile]
18Oct2007
Posted by Joe
in Hardware, MID, Nokia and Specs.
When Nokia initially launched the Internet tablet, one of the main issues was the lack of keyboard (if only had a on-screen one). With N810 fans of Nokia have the sliding QWERTY built in to the product and a GPS receiver. The N810 will be powered by maemo Linux based OS2008, which just means it’s open for any one to write other apps…
More details after the jump Continue reading ‘Nokia announces the N810′
07Sep2007
Looks like Asus Eee PCs will force the prices of the UMPCs and Laptops to be lowered. With the price advantage that they have other manufacturers are worried about the market.
According to DigiTimes Systems
…With its price advantage, Asustek expects its Eee PCs to make headway into the consumer notebook segment starting the second half of next year, with total shipments of Eee PCs to top three million units for all of 2008, company vice president Jerry Chen has said. Asustek plans to start delivering the low-cost notebooks in the latter half of this month…
…Intel’s planned introduction of its Menlow-based mobile Internet devices (MIDs) is likely to be adjusted, and Samsung Electronics, which has been following Intel’s steps to develop UMPC, would also be affected, the sources contended…
Asustek Eee PCs to push down ASPs of notebooks, UMPCs and other portable digital devices, say sources [DigiTimes]
06Aug2007
Posted by Joe
in Hardware.
Look mama UMPC. the design looks like it’ s from the 80’s. Looks apart the specs are really good and the price even better at about US $650 – $760.
The specifications are
- a 4.8-inch touchscreen LCD with 1024×600 resolution
- runs on VIA C7M ULV CPU/VX700 GPU
- 802.11b/g WLAN
- Bluetooth 2.1
- 0.3M camera
- also planned with GSM/GPRS/EDGE 4 band and HSDPA 3band
- Qwerty keyboard, scroll wheel, buttons for page(up/down) and mouse(left/right) and hold key.
- choice of 1GHz, 1.2GHz and 1.6GHz & 512MB and 1GB memory
- HDD(30GB, 60GB and 80GB)
Business UMPC ‘B1’ enables you to select CPU and HDD [via Engadget]
10Jul2007
Posted by Joe
in Hardware and Rumors.
Well there seems to be two major rumors which hints on new UMPC players.
- Engadget shows us a new device might-be successor of the N800 with the full QWERTY keyboard, which potentially could be an UMPC or a MID. The details are really slim but the images says more.
- On the other hand there are hints that DELL (finally) might enter the UMPC market — now take this with a grain of salt, because its not confirmed but looks like a possibility. — Details here
- Looks like HTC is getting its next concept ready, though the Shift is not yet out, they are working on the next generation named the “omni” which looks more slim and might compete with the MID markets
More Details here
