Back in March we broke some news about Mobitia (also trading as Mobits) and their UMPC developments. Its seems that they are making progress as the 7″ and 5.6″ UMPC’s (previously shown as ‘Bebos’ devices) look to be moving towards production. Pictures and specifications are now available on their website along with a ‘coming soon’ teaser.
The UMPC’s are both VIA-C7-M based devices with the new VIA CX700 integrated north/southbridge chipset with hardware MPEG-4 and WMV-9 decoding support. (not just mpeg-2 as in the eo and Easybook UMPC’s.)
Also very interesting is the LAN port, the TV-out port and the SD card slot. These are three things that a lot of people wanted on the Tablet Kiosk Eo / Paceblade Easybook P7 devices.
The synaptics mouse pointer is included (a proven advantage on the eo and Easybook) along with fingerprint sensor and options for Camera/GPS/DVB-T/DVB-H modules on board. DVB-T would be great in Europe for the World Cup right now!
The images show a product very similar to the eo/easybook although the casing looks like its a pre-production mould. It certainly could do with a bit of colour and trimming. In our opinion, the thin-framed version shown at the top of this article looks the best of the two. The image name (X15-5) suggests that it’s the 5.6″ version although its difficult to tell which one actually has the bigger screen.
Confusingly the web page title is called ‘Adam 8.9′ but the images are titled ‘X15′ so we’ll call it the ‘X15′ for now. (The ‘Adam’ name is from a different, but also interesting UMPC-like product range.) The Mobits website has been updated slightly and now shows a few more images including the Beacon 5.6 and 7 products with keyboards that we find very interesting. These could be variants of the Bebos but there isn’t any detail available on these.
In a previous email from Mobits (a trading name of Mobitia) we were told that production is planned for August. It is more than likely that the devices will not be sold under the Mobits brand. Like the Amtek 700, they will probably be sold through resellers. We’re trying to get an update from Mobits and will, of course, report as soon as we know.
Latest product specs will go into our database here (X15 5.6″) and here (X15 7″)
Regards
Steve / Chippy.
June 12th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Steve,
Did you note that the mo-bits site says the Display as “7” TFT LCD (800 x 480), 5.6” TFT (1024 x 600)”
Due you think it’s a mistake or the Fact ?
June 12th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Hi Joe.
Yeah i’ve seen that.
Personally I think it’s a mistake and i’ve entered what I think is correct into the product database. I hope to have it confirmed in the next 24 hours though.
Regards
Steve / Chippy
June 13th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
I don’t think it’s a mistake. I’ve seem some of the higher-end portable PCs that have the 5″ screen with 1024 resolution. This must use the same kind of LCD.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:10 am
No mistake. TMDisplay produces a very nice 5.6″ 1024 x 600 display panel.