Looks like Samsung has both negative and positive feedback about its UMPC, but wait looks like the negative is all because of Microsoft’s hype with the Origami Project (atleast according to Samsung) PC World reports…
Feedback from customers who have bought Samsung Electronics’ Q1 device suggests that a pre-launch teaser campaign by Microsoft might have backfired, according to a Samsung executive [...]
“Feedback has been quite mixed,” vice-president of marketing for Samsung’s digital media business, David Steel, said.
A positive or negative response was generally related to how much of the pre-launch Origami hype the person had been exposed to, Steel said.
Over a period of several weeks prior to the platform’s March launch at the Cebit trade show, Microsoft ran a teaser campaign in which it slowly disclosed Origami details. With few specific details released, expectations were quickly raised among IT professionals, bloggers and journalists about what Origami would be. At the same time a price tag of between $US500 and $US1000 for the devices became known [...]
Consumers who had encountered the Q1 with no prior knowledge were generally positive about the device while those who read a lot about the Origami platform prior to seeing the Q1 had been more negative, he said. “Particularly from someone [with prior] understanding of Origami, [they have been] saying ‘We expected this and expected that’ and comparing specification and price with laptop computers,” Steel said.
Via [PC World]
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