Its been a nice day for UMPCs.

There was the Pepperpad 3 news, then the IDF UMPC prototype, the ASUS R2h launch and then my new i7210 turned up.

I ordered it through the Scandinavian TabletKiosk distributor Coxion in Finland (who are also developing another mobile PC, the WebBook 3G.) They aren’t selling devices direct to the public but are providing mobile-computing related professional services into Europe. For those of you wanting to buy a single i7200 series in Scandinavia, I’ll try and find out from Coxion who’s reselling them.

I’ve barely had time to play with it but it looks (once again) smaller than I expected. Its a lot more stylish than I expected too. I like it a lot more (style wise) than the white Paceblade Easybook P7 (eo v7110 / Amtek T700) I had for a while. The docking station is also going to be very very useful.

On the negative side, theres just one thing at the moment. The little speaker is terrible. I have a better one on my mobile phone. Actually, I think it’s the worst speaker I’ve ever heard on a PC. No actually thats not fair. The Sinclair ZX81 was worse.

I’ve got the first photo-set up on the gallery now so there’s time to play around a bit. I’ll write up first impressions tomorrow.

One little test I’ve just done though - Playing the 6.8mbps HD video ‘Coral Reef’ from the Windows Media HD showcase. Not a single glitch. Perfect.

See the product portal for more specs on the i7210 and the Celeron based i7209.

Steve / Chippy.

tags: TabletKiosk, Founder mininote, i7210, umpc

Note that the keyboard in the image above is not included with the i7210. It’s a Level One Bluetooth Keyboard.