07Jun2006
Remember the rumors about the upcoming Averatec UMPC about a month back? Engadget reports that the company is moving ahead with its plans and has made progress, Now Engadget does not state who gave them this information and neither has any links to any of the official announcements or press or anything like that. So we hope it was tip from either the readers or may be even from averatec (you know they have this new images of the device)
This sleek unit is supposed to have
- less than 2 pounds
- VoIP
- videoconferencing
- viewing live TV and VOD and
- apparently even gaming
- voice recognition systems (presumably for use with GPS guidance and the like)
- a docking station
- from the prototype we can see a camera
- and is set to be priced under $800 for Q4 2006
wish they make it the way it is presented here. via [engadget]
Some preliminary specs here!
- 1GHz Celeron M
- 30 or 40GB drive
- Up to 1GB RAM
- 1.3 megapixel webcam
- Bluetooth
- 802.11b/g
- WWAN optional
- 4-in-1 card reader
- External VGA
- Audio out and
- A 5-inch 800 x 480 display (so does it fall under the UMPC Category? well I don’t care, I Love it.)
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15May2006
The rumored Sony UMPC seems to be coming closer and closer to reality. Today, a few screenshots of this device have appeared on the net. Now whether or not these are real is up to you, but no one can argue that they look sweet. What’s interesting is that some new information has been revealed about the Vaio-branded device. To be honest, these specs seem a bit too detailed to just be fiction. My guess is that Sony can’t miss out in this new market, and is making a huge splash with this UMPC.
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24Mar2006
Posted by Joe
in General and Rumors.
Yesterday GottaBeMobile has something interesting for us, Now it Hugo’s turn and he says….
While you were sleeping, Australia was still awake. Knowing that I was nearing Toshiba Utopia (UMPC), infamous bloggers like James Kendrick and Rob Bushway did some investigating of their own. It was mostly Rob that could not let this little Aussie Blogger get away with the UMPC scoop of the blogging era. Even though JK thought I should “get a life,” I thought to myself “tonight’s not the night mate, tonights not the night!” LOL 
Barely 48 hours had passed since I sniffed out a Toshiba UMPC and the blogosphere was ablaze. Most of our readers were not nearly as concerned with the significance of such news, but the inside crew made up of Warner Crocker, James Kendrick, the Uberly passionate Rob Bushway and I, were!
So what did I get up to today?
Today I rang Dan Warne, Journalist of APC Magazine Australia, and decided to get more info. Due to copyright protection neither Rob or I were granted permission to publish the article that sparked this riot. Here’s what I did found out:
[The following is a reenactment of the conversation – omissions are the small chit chat]
Hugo Ortega: “Hey Dan, tell me about Toshiba’s UMPC�
Dan Warne: “I know as much as you do.�
Hugo Ortega: “You conducted an interview with Toshiba Australia’s Product Marketing Manager, Matt Codrington, in regards to a new concept device. When was that interview conducted?�
Dan Warne: “Let me check my diary…on the 26th of January�
Hugo Ortega: “That explains all the veiled talk of Origami while other OEM’s are now touting UMPC. What made you write this up; did Matt submit a Press Release?�
Dan Warne: “No, I’ve known Matt for a while. We bumped into each other at the launch of Core Duo in Australia; over coffee we discussed several topics of which this one caught my attention! So I decided to run with it. I contacted him later in regards to the matter.�
Hugo Ortega: “Did you have a face-to-face?�
Dan Warne: “No, we conducted the interview over the phone.�
Hugo Ortega: “When I read the article I felt that it reeked of UMPC…you agree?�
Dan Warne: “Sure sounds like it to me! I’ve pointed Matt Codrington to your blog, let’s see what he has to say!�
Read the full story @ [Hugo's Blog]
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23Mar2006
A few days back, Hugo blogged about this (Some one tell me when is Toshiba is coming out with the UMPC?) and reffered to an article that might come up in APC Magazine soon. Now GottabeMobile has the answer for it.
I checked with a source of mine at Toshiba and he had this to say:”Sorry, but my inquiries with product planning are coming up blank. Nobody knows what he is referring to… wish I could help.”
I then contacted Dan Warne, the author and News Editor at APC Magazine. He sent me an image of the actual article titled “Toshiba’s Secret Project� where he interviews Toshiba Product Marketing Manager, Matt Codrington. He asked that I not post the article or transcript it due to copyright issues, but that I could relay the facts of the article to you. I’m going to honor Dan’s request and not post it ( I don’t want to get sued ), but I can attest to you that the article is real and I’ve seen it. Here is a summary of what Matt Codrignton told Dan Warne.
- Dan asks Matt if this “mysterious device� is going to compete with the Nokia 770. Matt admits that they have a project underway, it is nothing like a PDA, it will support tablet pc functionality with a strong focus on a much “more natural user input.�
- The device will have loads of connectivity options
- That devices smaller than 7� are difficult to use all day every day.
- That the devices like the one they are working on will need to handle rich digital multi-media.
- Dan asks him if it is another Tablet PC. Matt tells him that there will be support for pen input, but wouldn’t want to classify it in the Tablet PC category.
- He also says that it will be different in terms of weight and form factor.
- The context of the article, the direct questions and direct answers, all point to an upcoming Toshiba UMPC.
Source [GottaBeMobile]
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23Mar2006
Posted by Joe
in General and Rumors.
With Apple having a major holding in the education, Microsoft is now making its move with the UMPC to get a piece of it. But engadget reader today pointed out at some mysterious device on the Apple Website today, is that a Table PC? iTablet, iTab…
So for some reason, eagle-eyed reader Jacob S. was checking out the Apple website’s page on educational initiatives, and stumbled upon a picture of a bunch of smiley dentistry students at the University of Michigan using Apple products to enhance their studies. In the photo we see a pair of Mac laptops, a trio of iPods, and….a tablet PC? That’s right — the future dentist at the bottom of the photo is clearly scraping off some virtual tartar or tightening a set of of virtual braces on what is definitely some sort of pen-based computing device. Our money says that is simply a case of some jokester slipping a Microsoft-based product onto the set for kicks, because surely Apple wouldn’t be so careless as to publicly reveal a secretive product like the mythical iTablet in such a way, would they? Would they?
Update: The consensus among engadget’s readers seems to be that this is a Compaq TC1000 series TabletPC we’re seeing here; if so, kudos to Apple for publicizing the sensitive issue of mixed-OS working environments.
With lot of patents that apple had filed for touch interface, people were expecting a iTablet (sort of) a device but nothing YET is announced from apple. Though interestingly there are some prototypes that the guys at “The Place for it all” have created iTab out of an iBook.
Apple’s Mysterious Device page | Source Engadget
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