It’s about a little more than a year since the launch of UMPC. We’ve seen varied reaction from consumers and media so far. The main stream media seems to be rethinking what they stated during the initial times of UMPC.
Walt Mossberg has reviewed (kind of an overview) the Samsung Q1 Ultra and states this is far better than the first generation of UMPCs. The article titled “This Time, Samsung Has Made a Tiny PC That’s Practical to Use“. Here is the video
GottabeMobile has posted yet another story including this on David DeJean of Information Week taking a complete “U” turn on the Origami concept with the article that goes “OK, So I Was Wrong About Origami“. It’s interesting to see how the hardware has improved & implications has changed drastically over in a years time.
But this is not last year’s Origami. Ultra-mobile PCs have come a long way in a short time. While the UMPC is still a long way from being an established category of PC hardware, designers have come up with interesting takes on small devices with most of the capabilities of a full-sized notebook PC…
JKK has linked to another video from CNBC about Q1 Ultra, and a short interview with Senior Product Manager, Mobile Computing products — Samsung America
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