Well looks like HTC Advantage Portable Office is the official name for the device, though this device is not a full featured PC and might not be defined or filed under the UMPC category it’s a good alternative.
HTC has launched a site dedicated to the device with lots of information.
Detailed spec after the jump… Continue reading ‘HTC — Athena, Ameo and now the Advantage’
CNEW reviews the Asus R2H. Compared to other UMPCs that they have reviewed this seem to be getting a better rating.
The R2H did manage to impress us with its decent battery life–usually a weak point for UMPCs. It ran for 3 hours, 41 minutes on our MobileMark battery life test. Both the Samsung Q1 and the Sony VAIO UX50 offered less than 3 hours of battery life on the same test. This is especially impressive given the R2H’s larger screen.
Asus R2H Ultra–Mobile PC [CNET]
The US site “MedionUSA.com” says
Due to overwhelming demand the MEDION UMPC is currently out of stock. To ensure you don’t miss out, place your pre-order on (866) 633-4660
When we called them to confirm if the device has the GPS and the Docking station that was supposed to be in the package, the only information that they know of is the one on the website. The site spec does not show these two. We noticed that after reading this at Origami Project.
Interestingly the support person said that the support center will be moved to UK in another 4 days! and since they don’t have any more information that what the site says and when they move the UK support teams might have more information.
Oh BTW the price of the device is $999
The Soon to be launched Ameo (HTC Athena) from T-Mobile might cost you more than an average UMPC. Sources indicate the price of the device will be around $1500 USD. This device seems to be one of the original OEM device, Not a T-Mobile branded one and has the HTC logo on the top left.
MS Mobiles has posted some key points from the original Russian version.
- estimated price: 1500 USD, release date: first half of 2007
- built-in TV out connector and VGA-out connector (yes, you can connect even external monitor to this phone!)
- operating system: Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition with AKU 3.3 - not Windows Mobile 6.0 Crossbow what means: release of this phone is imminent
- display: 640×480 (VGA)
- communications: GSM/GPRS/EDGE, UMTS/HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, USB 1.1 Host
- cameras: 3 megapixel + VGA (for video calling)
- battery: Li-Ion of capacity 2200 mAh (approx. 2 times the capacity of small Pocket PC phones)
- dimensions: 133×97x20 mm, weight: 350 g
- the construction of the phone is very solid and in HTC incarnation it is available in black color
- stylus does not give solid impression as the construction of the phone itself and is transparent
- in the front, in left upper corner, a small joystick is located (very similar to the one that can be found in Toshiba Tablet PC computers)
- this phone is clear a 2 handed device and after one attaches the keyboard it looks like a mini-notebook
- detachable keyboard uses magnet to attach to the phone so one should be careful not to place credit cards near this device - in order not to damage their magnetic strip
More Pictures after the jump — Continue reading ‘Ameo — First look & more pics’
Remember the HTC Athena, Yes according to sources, the PPC is getting ready to released by T-Mobile named the “Ameo”. Not sure if this will hit the US markets anytime soon.
Specs for the new reigning king of HTC’s expansive Windows Mobile lineup include a 5-inch VGA display, an 8GB hard drive to supplement any Flash you might have stowed in the miniSD slot, on-board GPS, quadband GSM plus HSDPA (sorry, yanks — 2100MHz only), 3 megapixel camera, an XScale core clipping right along at 624MHz.
Though this might not be categorized as a UMPC, the screen size is pretty decent at 640X480.
