About 10 months ago I put Carrypad.com, my original ultra mobile focused website on ice and continued to work on promoting ultra mobile computing under the UMPCPortal banner. Things have gone exceptionally well and UMPCPortal is now one of, or, according to a Google search for UMPC, THE most popular news and info site for UMPCs. Thanks to everyone who’s helped with that process and long may it continue. During the last 10 months we’ve talked a lot about sub-UMPCs, ARM-based devices, consumer Internet web pads, smartphones and MIDs and recently we’ve seen a lot of activity indicating that there’s going to be an influx of devices into this new product category. With that in mind, I’ve decided to re-start the Carrypad site as a news portal for these devices. On it I will be taking a detailed look at mobile, consumer-targeted and Internet-connected devices along with mobile Internet technologies and software. The Google phone, the iPod touch, the Nokia Internet tablet, the Archos WiFi range, the Pepper Pad and all the devices that haven’t even been born yet. In addition to that, Internet-capable smartphones (with VGA screens and above) will be covered and hopefully there will be a lot of hands on!
Nothing changes at UMPCPortal.com because I still believe that Ultra Mobile PC’s cover a wide and important range of PC-based activities. From the smallest Raon Digital Everun to the ‘big’ Flybook V5 they are all devices with a significant target markets but in terms of customer, UMPCs are mostly separate from the mobile Internet device category. I don’t want to confuse the issue by talking about iPhones and small-screen Internet applications on UMPCPortal. I need a space in which I can freely give my Internet gadget love and Carrypad will be it!
Spanning the two sites across all device categories though will be the existing product database, the gallery and the forum. Undoubtedly there will be news items that span both sites too but if it all sounds too complex, I suggest you just sign up to the RSS feed by using this link.
I’m looking forward to the emergence of the consumer-focused Internet device and hope you’ll join me for the start of this new and exciting product category. Long live the Carrypad!
Steve ‘Chippy’ Paine.
P.S. If you love the idea of Internet devices too and you want to help out with Carrypad, contact me a with a proposal and i’ll look to see if there’s space for you on-board.
