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Engadget already told us about upcoming new Samsung Q2 UMPC. Looks like this device will be officially announced in a couple of days during CeBit Trade Show.
Only instead of Q2, it will be marketed as a part of Samsung Ultra edition and will be called Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC. At least that’s what Samsung’s Taiwanese site is telling us:
A new model of Sony VAIO PCG-1J1L and 1K1L handheld PC has been approved by the FCC.
Unfortunately the user manual and pictures of this PC are not disclosed yet, but from what I was able to put together from the label info, picture and test reports that are available, it looks like a good candidate for the UMPC category:
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Sony VAIO PCG 1J1L and 1K1L. Another handheld or UMPC?
Samsung has just announced the commercial release of first computers with NAND flash based solid state disk (SSD), that replaces traditional hard drive. And one of the first devices to get this NAND based flash is none other then Samsung Q1 UMPC.
NAND flash based SSD drives are the new generation of hard drives that can be used in a PC. They are very quiet and twice as light as the smallest 1.8″ HDD. NAND SSD’s are also much more reliable in portable applications - can withstand two times stronger impacts then traditional hard drives and are much easier to recover data from when dropped into the liquids or spilled upon.
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Samsung Q1-SSD: First UMPC with NAND Flash-Based Solid State Drive
When UMPC Origami was first released by Microsoft in March there were a lot of discussions and speculations about what this device is good for. Now the patent filed by Microsoft in December and made public last week reveals some Microsoft ideas about what it’s portable devices can be used for.
The patent, called “Portable Computing Device-Integrated Appliance” talks mainly about how PDA’s and Windows Mobile devices that can be used as a control panels for various home appliances. However this concept can be easily expanded for the UMPCs.
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Can Origami cook me a dinner? UMPC as a Control Panel for Home Appliances
It may not be Origami, but Pentagon just got their own Ultra Mobile PC. And it really is an impressive piece of equipment. Produced by General Micro Systems, P630 Spartan UMPC features:
Doesn’t matter what everyone does, Sony likes to do it their way. It seems that they’ll do it again with UMPC. Sony had ultramobile Vaio U in the market for a few years already and now they plan to release Origami spec’ed Sony Vaio UX using Windows XP Pro.
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.
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Elite ECS H70 UMPC (non Origami?) is Coming to U.S. soon.
One of the major drawbacks for choosing UMPC device - is it’s power requirements. 2-3 hours of battery life just aren’t enough for ultra mobile device. And the biggest power drain - anywhere from 30 to 65% of the total power consumption comes from the LCD screen.
Today Samsung has got some good news for us. Korean vendor announced that it has developed first amorphous silicon (a-Si) 7″ single chip WVGA (800×480) TFT-LCD. While uses for this screen does not specifically mention UMPC, WVGA screens of the same size and resolution are actually used in all UMPC devices launched so far.
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New power efficient 7″ screen from Samsung
In-stat research has released a report on the future of UMPCs and it looks really bright. They predict that 7.8 million UMPCs could ship in the next 5 years. Key factors driving the sales of UMPCs are their functionality bridging the gap between usage limitations of smart phones and PDAs and portability limitations of laptop computers.
The research also states quite an obvious - that there’s no size fits all solution. So even though the first generation UMPC devices will not have many unique features and will try to create a new usage model at a price points affordable for early adopters, we can expect a lot of experimentation and innovation later as processing, storage and power saving/storing technologies catch up. Continue Reading »
7.8 million UMPCs to ship in the next 5 years
Is Apple working on it’s own Origami UMPC device? Well, judging from patent applications filed by Apple in recent months, it seems so.
Does this picture look familiar:
It looks just like variation of Microsoft Touchpack software, except it is a single arc QWERTY keyboard, instead of two split panes in Touchpack. This drawing comes from the latest Apple patent application filed today describing “activation of virtual keys of a touch screen keyboard”. The form and shape of the keyboard doesn’t appear to give any benefits to larger tablet PC or laptop sized devices and seems best suited for a small portable computer just like UMPC. Continue Reading »
Apple Origami UMPC? Looks likely
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