Last year was exciting, this year is going to be an absolute stonker! CeBIT-fever has already started as PR companies across the world waiting for the perfect moment to drop The Leak! It’s possible that has already happened in the UMPC world. It doesn’t matter if HP aren’t at CeBIT because they only have to drop a few carefully crafted lines of text later in the week and they’ve won the UMPC-sector CeBIT PR prize! Putting the PR moments to one side though, what have we got to look forward to from Ultra Mobile PC businesses? At the top of the list are Intel who have some of their ultra mobility team there and will surely be showing off the MIDs. They have a stand tour, keynote address and a mobility conference planned. This alone makes it very very exciting but there’s a lot more to look forward to.

UMPCPortal will be there all week from Monday to Sunday and we’ll be teaming up with the eagle-eyed video-meister himself, JKK of JKKMobile. I have finally been accepted into the German Journalist Organisation so press-day and press events won’t be out of bounds and these start on Monday. I may go to the Microsoft presentation by Steve Balmer at 10am but unless I’m sure of a decent dose of UMPC action, i’ll probably avoid the others and just join the press booth tours later in the day from Intel and Asus) On Tuesday we have press events from Intel, ASUS and AMD. On Wednesday we might listen to what Acer has to say and on Thursday, there’s an important Intel Mobility conference to attend. Kornel will arrive on Thursday and be the man on the floor until the conference finishes.

All my reporting activity will be through the front page on UMPCPortal with image uploads going into the gallery beforehand. I may live-blog from a few press conferences but I know Engadget will be there and as they are the kings of live blogging it’s probably best to keep a window open on their up-to-the-second coverage. I’ll try and pick out and expand on the UMPC and MID-focused elements. I will be twittering too but if you’re logged-in you can see this on the UMPCPortal front page (top right) Alternatively, just ‘follow’ me on twitter. It will be a very busy event and I doubt there will be a second to spare but if you do have any tips or requests, don’t hesitate to use the contact form and i’ll get instantly notified.

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