The first thing I did this morning was check the Flipstart forum at Handtops.com for any thoughts and updates. Unfortunately there’s nothing new to be said. The teaser campaign continues.
Kevin Tofel (jkOnTheRun) got a hands-on demo of the Origami Experience and was impressed. I agree. Its a significant and impressive bit of software even from where I’m sitting. Its good to know that the Samsung Q1 is running Vista too. If you look in the comments you’ll see a hint that Samsung might be ready with Vista on the Q1. I hope this doesn’t mean more confusing model numbers. Q1-V Q1-VP Q1-VB Q1-VSSD Q1-VPSSD?
Someone finally reported from the Intel UMPC display and took some images. Warner reports that they will have a video up soon.
This is the UMPC that got a bit of buzz last year when it was associated with Yahoo and Yahoo GO. [news] This one has still got the Intel logo on the screen frame and its being called a concept UMPC as before. Maybe developers are working with Intel’s Santa Rosa platform which won’t appear until mid 2007. That’s good news for VIA and as the Yahoo Desktop site appears to be offline now, (its here but unlinked) maybe there are delays.
Dell didn’t come up with any UMPC-related announcements in the Keynote speech so unless someone squeezes news out of the people on the Dell stand, this one is off the list.
One last note, not CES related for a change, is that Arima have announced their intention to roll out 8 PDA-based smartphones in 2007. It looks like (link) they will mostly be 3.5G devices and there will be some focus in ‘niche’ markets. Arima already produce devices for O2 (The Flame, above, is a VGA screen high-end smartphone) and Sony-Ericsson. If anyone wants to go head-to-head with Apples iPhone or HTC’s Athena or Omni, they will have Already considered Arima. Arima also designed the the Medion MD 1000 UMPC which was shown on the CES keynote video so there’s a definate UMPC feel to this news.
Steve.
