According to Akihabaranews, New Launches.com and a lot of other sites, there’s new info about the Lucoms Solo M1 UMPC available. I’m struggling to find the new news myself as most of this has been reported before. It looks like Daewoo just announced ‘availbility’ and Telekoms Korea picked up on it.
As a refresh, the Daewoo Lucoms device is also sold under the Founder Mininote and ECS H70 brands which were shown back in March.
The specifications are standard UMPC fayre apart from the S-Video out on its useful looking docking cradle (enables use as a PVR), a 1.3Mp camera (enables use as a videophone), SD card reader (good for photographers) and a DMB TV receiver (good for selling the device with a TV contract where coverage exists.) The new pictures on some of the reports also show the docking solution (at last) and a sleek design. I like the look of it.
The price in South Korea is reported to be just over $1000.
The news we’re really waiting for is that this device will be marketed in the U.S. and Europe. As yet, we’re not aware of anyone carrying it or importing it. Not even Dynamism.com who seem to be able to get their hands on most asia-only devices.
Hopefuly, by the time is reaches the U.S. and Europe, it will have a better processor than the Celeron 900 and longer battery life.
Founder/ECS/Lucoms Data sheet.
Founder/ECS/Lucoms livelinks.
Regards
Steve / Chippy.
