So what does that mean? Your guess is as good as mine but it seems that the Origami team is ready to wind up the marketing machine once again. (Be careful lads!) if this post is anyting to go by.
We already know that there will be a number of new devices but Dustin at Origamiproject is telling us that the all new UMPC is ”the best product work my team has ever done.”
Reading between the lines I think we’re going to see many of the new devices with keyboards. Selling a notebook PC without a keyboard is tough work. In fact, they might have realised that the 7″ device is not the sweet spot they hoped for. I think we’ll also see a trend towards a consumer device with 5″ or 6″ screen (think PMP, Navigation, Browsing)and a business device with an 8-11″ screen. The 3G modem is also neccesary if anyone wants to see cellular carriers picking up the devices and introducing them to the mass market.
In the coming year we’ll see new hardware manufactures enter the market, new designs that offer built in keyboard functionality, and even the reality of “always connected” with integrated 3G access.
UMPC2007 has already been talked about by Microsoft but I’m really interested to see if they still use that Origami word.
Steve.
December 14th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
Ok, and all new UMPC, the best the team has ever done.
Well lets compare this to a car model. A) I would home that a 2007 model is new compared to 2006.
b) If the new model is not the best, what have you done to improve yourself?
and IMHO, it is still an Origami (product, device, etc.) I cringe at the thought of refering to the device as yet another acronym.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
On the one hand, this is great news…onward and upward as they say.
On the other hand, I feel that the BIOS/driver updates that the various current machines need are rapidly slipping further from becoming a reality.
I’d like to think that the hardware manufacturers won’t leave the early adopters out in the cold, but that seems to be the way it’s going.
Cheers
Neil
December 15th, 2006 at 10:17 am
Nooooooo don’t say that, I was all geared up to buy a R2H finally