I normally dont bother about breaking news in this journal but this one is worth putting out as a simul-post with Origamiportal.com where I post news and participate in the forums. For comments, discussion and further information as it is uncovered, I advise you to go to Origamiportal.com.

Mobits Bobos confirmed as an Origami UMPC
Today I’ve had an email response direct from Mobits confirming that the Bobos device that I reported about in Origamiportal.com is an ‘Origami product.’ and that there is a 7″ and a 5.6″ variant.

Don’t get too excited just yet as these are products waiting for a customer to take them into tooling and production. Mobits, however are saying that they expect ‘MP’ (Mass Production) in August which shows a certain level of confidence that this device is going to make it through to customers.

The MoBits company has (or is part of) another company called Mobitia that has a website with more information on their prodcuts, a few other interesting devices and details about a common device chassis which has been developed.

Mobits UMPC’s
Also shown is the Adam/Bart, Victor and Irene variants of an 8.4″ device which, might not be Origami but its so close as to be a direct competitor. These devices utilise Transmeta, Via or Intel processors (Interesting that transmeta is included.)

Details can be seen of the carrying case, the handstrap, the stand and the cradle. Also given as options are camera, h/w codec card (I assume this means TV/Video codec) and fingerprint reader. There’s also an option for a 6-cell, 52w battery thats double the power of Origami batteries.

Origami with keyboard?
Another image is showing the Bebos 5.6 and two variants of a device called the Beacon. One is a 5.6″ variant and the other a 7″ variant. These two devices appear to have keyboards which will please a lot of people looking for that in their UMPC.

The carrypad dream moves a step closer to reality!!