Remember Elite Group H70 UMPC that went mainly unnoticed among all the hype surrounding Microsoft Origami project and first official UMPCs from Samsung, Asus and Founder?
Well, it seems ECS H70 UMPC is coming to the U.S. soon. Last week Elite Group has been granted FCC approval for this UMPC and now we can find some pictures and draft user manual available on FCC site.
ECS H70 UMPC will be sold in two configurations - Value and Premium. Value configuration will have:
Intel Celeron M ULV 900 MHZ processor
Intel GMS + ICH6 -M chipset
256 MB DDR 400 SO-DIMM SDRAM
7″ WVGA (800×480) TFT display
Intel GMA 900
30GB 4200rpm 1.8″ HDD
3-in1 card reader (SD/SDIO/MS/MMC)
1.3 megapixel camera
Touch screen with Stylus Pen, Synaptics pointing stick
HD 7.1 channel Audio, Built-in speaker and microphone
3 cell Li-ion battery pack 11.1V 2400mAh
Bluetooth Module
802.11b/g WLAN card
Dimensions: 225.5×144x.23/25mm
Weight: 830g
With Premium configuration you will get faster Intel Pentium M ULV 1GHz chip, 512MB of memory and 60GB hard drive.
One interesting thing that we noticed while scanning users manual is that Elite H70 is being positioned as normal Tablet PC and there’s no reference to Microsoft TouchPack software in it.
But there are a lot of pages intentionally left blank in the manual and with all other features fully compliant with Origami specification it would seem downright stupid to forgo additional convenience and marketing opportunities provided by new UMPC category.
This seems to confirm a report by Origami Portal that ECS H70 is not Origami device. It still sounds pretty stupid to me. Why go to all the lenghth producing a device fully compliant to Origami specs and then miss all the marketing opportunities provided by Microsoft?
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[…] – Rob BushwayDailyTech.com ( via UMPCNews.com )has an interesting report regarding ECS’ new UMPC – the H70. According to DailyTech, they are saying that the H70 will be marketed as a Tablet PC and not a UMPC. That is pretty strange considering that it has all the features of a UMPC / Origami. ECS markets a UMPC sized device as a Tablet PC with FCC approvalElitegroup Computer Systems has just received the Federal Communications Commission’s thumbs-up on its version of an ultra mobile PC.The H70 is an Intel Pentium M powered UMPC which will come in two different models: Value and Premium. The Value model comes with an Intel Celeron M 900MHz CPU with a 400MHz front-side bus and 512KB L2 cache, 256MB of DDR400 flavored SDRAM, and a 30GB hard while the Premium model will come with an Intel Pentium M ULV 1GHz CPU with a 400MHz front-side bus and 2MB of L2 cache, 512MB of DDR400 SDRAM, and a larger 60GB hard drive. It feature a 7-inch WVGA TFT display at 800×480 resolution, a 3-in-1 flash reader, a 1.3 megapixel camera, high-definition 7.1 channel audio with built-in speaker and mic, 802.11b/g WLAN and Bluetooth capabilities, and a touch sensitive screen with a stylus, which is standard on UMPCs, and a Synaptics pointing stick. Ultra Mobile PC 05/05/2006 14:19:57 (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00) Comments [0] | Trackback […]
[…] However it is rather strange that Sony is not using Tablet PC OS on Vaio UX UMPC. Decision not to put a Touch Pack software on Ultramobile PCs can be understood and has already been done for ECS H70 UMPC. This software does not bring very significant improvements to Touch Screen optimized Tablet PC OS and if there are some additional costs involved some vendors might just drop it. Especially when they do not really need Microsoft marketing muscle behind them. […]
[…] Elite Group H70 UMPC is coming to US soon. It was announced on the last CEBIT together with Samsung and Asus. ECS H70 is powered by Intel Celeron M ULV 900 MHZ processor and Intel GMS + ICH6 -M chipset. It features 256 MB DDR 400 SO-DIMM SDRAM, 7″ WVGA (800×480) TFT display, 30GB 4200rpm 1.8″ HDD, 3-in1 card reader (SD/SDIO/MS/MMC), 1.3 megapixel camera. As input device it has touch screen with Stylus Pen and Synaptics pointing stick. Audio part is presented by HD 7.1 channel Audio, Built-in speaker and microphone. It has both Bluetooth and WiFi along with ‘grab and go’ docking for maximum connectivity. […]