TG Daily has a nice article covering the major things that happened in the past week and the pricing.
Seoul (South Korea) - The Korea Herald reported Friday morning, Seoul time, that Samsung, Microsoft, and Intel have jointly announced the price and availability of the first UMPC to reach retail stores worldwide, Samsung’s Q1, unveiled last month in a worldwide event, and at the CeBIT show in Hannover. It will be available on 1 May (ironically, in “Q2″) under the brand name “Sens Q1,” and will sell for a suggested $1,250, though some sources are reporting pre-orders are being taken for as high as $1,400.
While sources following the UMPC scene - if there is one - are casting new theories about the possible rising cost of the new form factor, a Samsung source told the Herald that observers should take into account that the company’s own mainstream laptop system, the Q30, sells for easily twice that amount (about $2,500) in Korea.
Samsung’s Q1 UMPCThis news came as one of the new UMPC blogs trumpeted an announcement from Averatec, that had apparently been delayed days earlier, of a UMPC system called the AHI. Like the Q1, the AHI would run on an ultra-low-voltage Celeron processor, have Windows XP Tablet PC Edition pre-installed, and promises a battery life of six hours - instead of the 15 minutes the Q1 prototypes were displaying at CeBIT. The price, according to a source who had attended an Averatec briefing - and had taken home slides to prove it - would be just over $1,000, and may first sell to the European market [...] | Read on
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