received confirmation of a meeting at CeBit with the UMPC product manager and in my reply I mentioned the availability date. Alas, just a few minutes later and just seconds after I had hit the publish button on the 'its coming' story, I had a reply saying that the data on the website was wrong. Screeeeeeeech! Unpublish. Just in time. I don't think it got into any RSS feeds. 
I’ve been keeping a close eye on the delivery times for the Medion UMPC. Its been sitting at the 20 day mark for a while. Yesterday it dropped to 14 days signaling the start of the countdown and a very likely availability date of the first day of CeBit. At around the same time as writing the ‘its coming’ post. I 
received confirmation of a meeting at CeBit with the ultra mobile PC product manager and in my reply I mentioned the availability date. Alas, just a few minutes later and just seconds after I had hit the publish button on the ‘its coming’ story, I had a reply saying that the data on the website was wrong. Screeeeeeeech! Unpublish. Just in time. I don’t think it got into any RSS feeds.
Today I got a bit of clarification on the issue. Apparently there have been a large number of orders and the stockpiling is taking longer than expected. Medion Germany will wait for a second shipment of devices from the OEM to ensure a smooth flow of deliveries at launch date. It makes total sense I suppose but its really frustrating. I first reported on the Arima OEM device at the beginning of November last year.
I’ll try and get down to the nitty gritty on the Medion at CeBit. Is the keyboard good or bad and will the VIA C7 be able to handle Vista Media Center!
The German website ‘counter’ has been reset and its now stating ‘more than 20 workdays.’
