The UMPCPortal team is continuously monitoring the Internet for news and interesting articles about UMPC’s, MIDs and related technologies. As we find them, we add them to the middle column on the front page. Here are the links we added today along with our comments. Posted Crunchpad specs news report Posted Vye SX3 netbook review Posted HightonUMPC HA 708 Posted HightonUMPC HS 990 Posted HightonUMPC HSV760 Posted Highton UMPC HTP69 [...]

A wonderful poem. Someone send Rachna Vohra a MID and tell her to write more! MID Love Poem | MID Stories.

We get a lot of emails highlighting ‘new’ products that turn out to be re-badged versions of devices we already have in the database so when I saw a recent email highlighting the Wibrain and Aigo models from HightonUMPC I politely responded with a ‘thank-you. We’ve covered these already’ and thought nothing of it. They wrote back fairly swiftly to highlight that 4 products in their range are actually from [...]

There have been rumors flying about for a while now that the X70 UMPC [#2 in our charts today] includes the voice-capable version of the Huawei 3G modem so when Viliv sent me a replacement for my pre-production X70 sample the first thing I did was to check the 3G hardware and software. Sure enough the installed software includes a phone dialer and the hardware is wired up to the [...]

Be careful how you read this story. Some people are taking it as meaning there will be no more Z-Series; possibly forgeting that there is a Z-series market outside the netbook market. Only last month, Intel told me that Menlow (the platform that uses the Z-Series CPUs) will continue alongside Moorestown. I understand that this is because Moorestown won’t initially support Windows products and Intel need an offering for the [...]

When we guessed the specs of the Crunchpad back in April we based it around what we thought was the best that could be achieved. It appears we may have got the pricing in the right ballpark but woah!, wait a minute, we’re now hearing that it will weigh a hefty 1.2kg. Take it from me, that is way too heavy for consumers. My Gigabyte Touchnote (similar specs to the [...]

The UMPCPortal team is continuously monitoring the Internet for news and interesting articles about UMPC’s, MIDs and related technologies. As we find them, we add them to the middle column on the front page. Here are the links we added today along with our comments. Shared NVIDIA ION Days Numbered? – Industry News – Overclockers Club It looks like Nvidias ION has nowhere to go in the netbook market now. [...]

The Gigabyte Touchnote T1028M [details] is a great convertible netbook. I’ve been using one as my main laptop for nearly 4 months now and I’m very very happy with it. Of course I’ve retro-fitted one of the new Runcore Pro IV SSD drives and added a 3G modem which connects to the pre-wired antenna turning it into more than your average netbook but even without the SSD and 3G it’s [...]

There’s a strange excitement over the Samsung Mondi [specifications]. It’s basically a PocketPC and yet that MID form factor, the hi-res screen and the slide out keyboard make it look incredibly appealing for mobile internet work. Jenn at Pocketables has just received hers and posted a set of unboxing pics. She’s happy with the build quality and pleased at the surprise set of car mount accessories. We’ll have to wait [...]

The UMPCPortal team is continuously monitoring the Internet for news and interesting articles about UMPC’s, MIDs and related technologies. As we find them, we add them to the middle column on the front page. Here are the links we added today along with our comments. Shared Viliv X70 UMPC delayed by components shortages Shared Still beating the SMS drum Shared ZiiLABS media processing module It looks like the general purpose [...]

Kicking me back into life after 3 weeks away from my desk is this special Meet:Mobility podcast about the (possible) Apple Tablet. JKKMobile, Sascha, Warner, Xavier, Ben and Brad provided some really interesting thoughts and commentary on what the device might be like and where it will be targeted. At the end of the podcast I ask them all if they would buy one based on the current rumors and [...]

The UMPCPortal team is continuously monitoring the Internet for news and interesting articles about UMPC’s, MIDs and related technologies. As we find them, we add them to the middle column on the front page. Here are the links we added today along with our comments. Shared Using the Viliv S5 as a Tablet PC | MID Stories Hector Gomez talks about Tablet features and usability. Shared Samsung Mondi Mobile WiMAX [...]

The UMPCPortal team is continuously monitoring the Internet for news and interesting articles about UMPC’s, MIDs and related technologies. As we find them, we add them to the middle column on the front page. Here are the links we added today along with our comments. Shared Apple iTouch rumors round-up Posted AT&T Rolls Out Barely-Subsidized Acer, Dell, Lenovo Netbooks Acr Posted ASUS Eee PC T101 tablet reportedly facing uncertain future [...]

There have been plenty of rumors flying around as of late that try to implicate Verizon readying LTE by 2010 for the elusive, and frequently rumored, Apple web tablet (let’s call it the AWT for short). However I find it extremely hard to believe that these two things have any correlation, and in fact feel that it makes much more sense for the AWT to not have any sort of [...]

Welcome to this week’s netbook roundup. In this space every Monday I’ll highlight netbook news items from around the web. AT&T Rolls Out Barely-Subsidized Acer, Dell, Lenovo Netbooks Across the Country – AT&T fires up a bit of netbook subsidization, offering the Dell Mini 10 [Portal page], Acer Aspire One [Portal page] and Lenovo S10 [Portal page] for $200 with a two-year, $40/month (minimum) contract. ASUS Eee PC T101 tablet [...]

The UMPCPortal team is continuously monitoring the Internet for news and interesting articles about UMPC’s, MIDs and related technologies. As we find them, we add them to the middle column on the front page. Here are the links we added today along with our comments. Shared Orange sells Prepaid 3G Sticks at Paris Airport Shared How do you carry your devices? Gadget freaks need gadget clothes!

The UMPCPortal team is continuously monitoring the Internet for news and interesting articles about UMPC’s, MIDs and related technologies. As we find them, we add them to the middle column on the front page. Here are the links we added today along with our comments. Posted GSMArena preview of the Samsung Omnia Pro Posted PhoneArena preview of the Samsung Omnia Pro