Pocket-Lint have just posted a news item saying that the ASUS R2H will launch at £799 That’s exactly the same price as the Samsung Q1. Incredibly, they report that this includes 768MB RAM a 60GB HDD and an external DVD Dual D/L Drive. If this is true, Samsung have a problem on their hands. There is a link to ASUS on the news story but no source quoted for the news. Lets wait and see if more details emerge from ASUS today. Steve / Chippy. tags: asus, r2h, umpc View […]

This is cool. Currently XP Media Center doesn’t contain the features of XP Tablet Edition and Tablet Edition obviously doesn’t have the Media Center capabilities. But when Vista comes, this will change. Some versions of Windows Vista will include both Tablet PC and Media Center. [ref] A touch-enabled mobile media center solution is not only going to be very cool, its also going to be pretty much unique amongst operating systems. Neither Apple or Linux can offer that level of out-of-the-box integration yet. This guy, Stephan Torres, thinks the media […]

Update: Ripberger left a comment to correct me on the names of the devices. The Pepperpad Plus was the original name of the pepperpad 3. The current Pepperpad is known only as ‘Pepperpad.’ Thanks Ripberger. Pepperpad have just sent out an email covering pretty much what we said in a previous post. That’s 2 Pepperpads for $1000 then! The original Pepperpad Plus Linux-based web tablet device is being cleared out for under $500 (was over $800) on both Amazon.com and e-cost.com to make way for the new Pepperpad 3 device. […]

A quick scan through the Carrypad ultra mobile PC links page shows me I’ve got some updating to do. Of the 38 sites listed, no less than 10 seem to be stuck in the water. That is they’ve had no updates for a month or more. Not only that but 3 of them seem to be ‘made for google’ now and have no real content on them at all. This is in addition to the 10 or so more that I’ve found that I never bothered to add to the […]

OK, perhaps ‘pulled’ is the wrong word. Lets just say they’re not re-stocking any more. JKonTheRun noticed yesterday that the UX180P had disappeared from the Sony Style website and when I checked it today, it still wasn’t there. Over at MicroPCTalk however, they’ve had confirmation that it really has been pulled phased out. we got word directly from Sony USA that they are currently out of inventory for the Vaio UX180P. A new “refreshed model inch will be posted in SonyStyle on September 19. I wonder if the cellular deal didn’t work […]

The almost-too-good-to-be-true Vega ultra portable PC now has a price.

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On the Raon Digital website [url=http://www.raondigital.com/shopping/k_shopping.asp]here,[/url] the price is clearly shown.

256MB $710
512MB $750

No-one has actaully seen a good test of these yet but [url=http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-12325-Vega+the+UPPC+reviewed+by+Suze.html]Akihabara[/url] (again!) are reporting that threre’s a report due soon from ‘Suze.’ so keep an eye on Akihabara.

via [url=http://www.carrypad.com/journal/2006/08/vega-uppcumpc-review-and-pricing.html]Carrypad[/url]

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It looks like Sony has launched a UX50 with a 1-seg digital TV receiver in Asia known as the UX70. [url=http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-12336-VAIO+UX70+1Seg+powered.html]Akihabara[/url] has a very brief news item here on the topic.

The Averatec AHI, first seen through a PDAFrance back in April and pencilled-in for a Sept launch has been delayed.

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Latest information is that it has been re-planned for an early 2007 launch.

The Averatec was rumored to have an Origami-like spec but raised eyebrows (and some hopes) when it was shown with a slide-out keyboard.

We assume that the race to get the Christmas market production run complete was too much of a tall order and thus it has been put on hold until the next round of announcements, probably a month or two before CES or CeBit.

[url=http://www.carrypad.com/products/product.php?id=20]Specs at Carrypad.[/url]