Matt Propst has posted a review of the Samsung Q1b, VIA-based UMPC. There are some nice stats too. Minimum 3 hours battery life. That is really fantastic. Most ultra mobile PC device have a minimum battery life of around 1:30-1:45. Average battery life: 3.5 hours. No indications of max battery life but in the real world, you don’t need them. There are some images which show that it only has a mono speaker and that the U.S. version does not have the cellular radio slot. Like most ultra mobile PC […]

Dapreview has news about the Maxian PMP. Its got the same form factor as the Raon Digital Vega. However, I think its more of an advanced PMP like the I-Station Netforce. Its probably not an x86 (PC) device.  It runs Windows CE and has Wifi, DMB and an SD slot. Strangely enough it has no hard disk. Maybe they are expecting 16GB SD cards to come down in price a lot. Its only available in Korea so its a possibility. Again, we’re seeing devices being drawn up the chain towards ultra […]

From Akihabara News this morning comes a rather cool dictionary. Hold on. I’ll start that again….. From Akihabara News this morning comes a rather cool electronic device. What its running is not important to me but look at the design. Here’s another pic. There’s more at Akihabara News. Just like the Sharp Zaurus its a mini-convertible. I really think that if you could push the screen right out to the edges on this style of device you could have a useable 800×480 screen size. Its a wonderful form factor, it has […]

A car mounting solution is being talked about at UMPCBuzz, Origamiproject, UltraMobile PC Tips and at the local bring-a-bun coffee morning today.  more images at ToDoUMPC Its a rather tidy homemade car mounting solution actually and has got me thinking. Could the very sturdy metal stand in the i7210 be used with my universal PDA mount?  It looks like there’s a Dremel project coming up! Steve /Chippy Technorati tags: umpc, carputer View details of all Ultra Mobile devices in the ultra mobile PC product database. From N800 to Flybook V5, its all there!

The positively pornographic Proportable people have emailed me to say that they finally have stock on the R2H having just filled all their back orders. Proportable are shipping worldwide apparently so this post also applies to my reader in Azerbaijan! Engadget were rather nasty about the R2H the other day weren’t they? They recommended that if you want better battery life you might look at the Dell D420. Er. Hold on. The R2H is 50% the size! An R2H with enough spare battery for 12 hours life is still smaller and […]

A quick McBlog with coffee and the i7210 while I wait for someone… Hugo ‘Ubertablet’ Ortega has received one of the first R2Hs in Australia. News here Hugo has a nice technical understanding of the issues that are important to the customer and so I’m looking forward to hearing more. A couple of questions though Hugo. Does it feel slow and overloaded with software? This is something I’ve seen reported a number of times now. Steve. McSurfing tip: Use Bluetooth over your mobile data plan where possible. Quicker to set up […]

RSS feed sources are changing. New site-wide Feed: [updated: Watchlist link now works!] I’ve removed unconfirmed and rumored ultra mobile PC devices from the product portal now (along with end-of-life devices) and now made a Watchlist page here. There’s nothing in there that I haven’t already reported on but its good as a reference (and a nice reminder for me to keep hassling the product managers for information.) I’ve refrained from putting yet another RSS feed up for the watchlist but what I have done is cleaned the RSS feeds […]

Every few weeks we seem to get a flurry of blogs about keyboards. Despite UMPCs being touch-capable devices with handwriting recognition, dialkeys, on screen keyboard and speech input, you still need a keyboard. We all need a keyboard. Ideally you’ll get a ultra mobile PC which has a packaged keyboard (ASUS R2H for example) but if not (and if you haven’t fallen for the very practical convertible notebook design) you need to decide on a solution. Here’s some info from previous posts and a few new ones that have been […]