Comments on: Kohjinsha SK3 UMPC Info Coming Through

By: ProDigit

ProDigit — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:21:45 +0000

I guess I’ll be the first to mention who does not like the leather cover!

I’m generally not carrying agenda’s with me, especially not if I have a netbook by the hand.

So for me, if they could sell it without the GPS (which makes little sense on a device capable of only running for 2 hours, and besides, there are many USB GPS pucks available anyways), leather pouch, and perhaps DTV antenna (USA has Digital TV signals, but I’m fairly sure with the size of the antenna that you won’t see much of fluid action on the TV, unless you’re standing outside; which is where most people don’t prefer watching TV).

So without those 3 items, if they could shave off $50 to $100 it would make a nice buy.

By: NONO

NONO — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:52:59 +0000

I got one in Japan.
The performance of GPS is very good,and better than before.
Very nice design

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:25:04 +0000

It looks like there was a typo on the battery specs in the first press release and now has been corrected to be rated at 3.2 hours. Looks like in their hurry to get the data out they switched the 2 and the 3. (Still not stellar battery life in my opinion.)
The other interesting feature is that is comes with a 3 megapixel auto focus webcam. Apparently the first auto focus webcam built into a notebook.
Larry

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:22:17 +0000

Official product page is up now: http://jp.kohjinsha.com/models/sk/index.html

By: nate

nate — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:27:20 +0000

Damn, only 2.3 hours? That’s almost a kick in the nuts for me right now. I really want something small and light like this with a color touch screen. Something if worse case comes to pass I can hack linux on to become my dedicated book and comic book reader.

Price isn’t what I’d be willing to pay. Why not kill the keyboard all together? Do we really need those anymore on small devices? Multitouch has come along way.

By: Chippy

Chippy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:14:56 +0000

Larry / Kabatek, thanks for the info.

2.3hours is really poor in my opinion. The two biggest problems with the SC3, battery life and HDD speed haven’t been addressed with this.

Steve

By: Balazs Gal

Balazs Gal — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:15:36 +0000

@Genjinaro thx for the RT and the original article was in english so no Transl. needed… http://is.gd/19u9g

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:47:30 +0000

Hi have some hard specs for you. First the Screen is 1024 x 600 and it is a touch screen. It will be on sale from June 26th in Japan and should be in the 7-800 USD range with the current strong YEN. Same Intel Atom Z520(1.33GHz)CPU and Intel US15W Chipset. Sadly the battery is only rated at 2.3 hours. It will be selling with Windows XP Home SP3.
Hope this helps.

By: ElCamino

ElCamino — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:46:18 +0000

Hey Chippy I still have my SC3, and that case for the SK3 looks very nice. Any one know if there is one for the SC3?

By: Jez - Samsung NC10 Community

Jez - Samsung NC10 Community — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:04:00 +0000

Nice one. The touchscreen tablet is still top of my umpc wish list! Sooner or later someone is going to release my ideal device lol!

By: Kevin Mannion

Kevin Mannion — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:49:00 +0000

I’ve too many gadgets already, but tempted by this new 7″ Ultra Mobile PC: http://snurl.com/knn7z

By: にわとり

にわとり — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:17:42 +0000

Kohjinsha SK3かぁー。11n対応したのはいいね。見てる：Kohjinsha SK3 UMPC Info Coming Through http://bit.ly/2wR90

By: tmfh

tmfh — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:00:04 +0000

Kohjinsha SK3 UMPC Info Coming Through (Chippy/UMPCPortal) http://bit.ly/1by6Ea

By: Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Steve 'Chippy' Paine — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:40:14 +0000

@Jeloki Check out latest Kohjinsha-related tip-off – The X70 decision gets harder! http://bit.ly/OrZd0