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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26Mar2007
Posted by Joe
in HTC, Hardware and Specs.
We’ve been hearing about HTC joining the UMPC party for a while. A while ago, we thought it was only the HTC Athena or the Ameo or the Advantage that they were talking about — NO. Engadget has done it again, they have some great news, HTC will soon be announcing the “Shift” the UMPC that we’ve all been waiting for.
…the Shift (codename Shangri-La), is officially announced today. We don’t yet have hard details on release date or price, but we do know it should be available in Q3 (we’d estimate for under $2,000). As for features, we know not to expect anything out of the ordinary (except lots of 3G)…
The specs of the device are
- VIA CPU (the one we tried had a 1.2GHz chip)
- Vista business (yes, it was running Aero)
- 7-inch sliding, tiling wide-touchscreen
- 30GB drive
- Tri-band UMTS / HSDPA, quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE
- WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0
- Biometric reader, front-facing camera
The design looks impressive, and the keyboard is very much the same as they have used it in their previous model. Hope the pricing will be as engadget puts it (under $2000) — that could mean $1999, but we’ll like it to be around a grand.
HTC Shift — the cellphone company finally goes UMPC [engadget] | Press Release [HTC]
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21Mar2007
Posted by Joe
in Asus and Hardware.
Fabian Dietrich over at Origami Project forums has shared some nice UMPC & UMPC like photos from the CeBIT. There are dozens of them. The US700 series seems to be the most attractive.
Fabian’s CeBIT Gallery [OrigamiProject]
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20Mar2007
Posted by Joe
in Hardware, Specs and Videos.
This one looks really slick and nice, JKK has posted a video on youtube from CeBIT, Take a look
Via Origami Project
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20Mar2007
Though TabletKiosk has been selling UMPCs for the past year or so, this seems to be a new product that’s built for some sort of rugged usage.
eo TufTab™ v7112XT
As TabletKiosk’s first Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) designed to endure physical stress and withstand harsher environmental conditions than a standard computer, the eo TufTab™ v7112XT is the ideal solution for field work, warehousing, mobile point of sale, data collection and other jobs in which a computer endure excess handling. Its rugged construction compliments the 7″ UMPC form factor when used for accessing touch screen applications, taking handwritten notes, entering data and communicating over a wireless network.
The eo TufTab™ v7112XT, available in either black or white, features 802.11 b/g wireless LAN, Bluetooth® 2.0, a sunlight viewable 7″ TFT LCD touch screen with LED backlighting, SD-IO slot and a PCMCIA Type II PC card slot for maximum connectivity and expandability. For enhanced security, the eo TufTab™ v7112XT also features an integrated biometric fingerprint reader.
Powered by a 1.2GHz VIA C7-M® ULV processor and preloaded with a choice of Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Business, Windows® XP Tablet Edition or SUSE Linux, the eo TufTab™ v7112XT was designed to deliver a productive and efficient mobile computing experience.
“VIA is excited to have the rugged TabletKiosk eo TufTab v7112XT join the elite group of ultra-mobile devices based on the VIA C7-M® ULV processor. Durable x86 devices like the eo TufTab™ are an incredible resource for industries demanding long battery life, rich connectivity, and wide application support,” said Bjorn Stromberg, International Product Marketing Manager for VIA Technologies…
Continue reading ‘TabletKiosk’s all new UMPC — eo TufTab™’
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