Here’s the weekly rundown of items that we posted to the middle column on UMPCPortal, our ‘Other News’ section. It’s all good UMPC and MID-related stuff that, in most cases, we didn’t write about as a main news item. Published MeeGo TSG Meeting. Roadmap Released.. I’ve been following the first MeeGo Technical Steering Group Meeting this evening (still ongoing as I write this) and durin… Published MeeGo Roadmap Released.. I’ve [...]

I’ve had a theory about web-page loading speed for about three years now. When a web page takes more than 12 seconds to load, a user considers it a slow experience. Anything less than 10-12 seconds and everything is in the green zone. Smartphones are now entering the green zone.

Netbook Navigator has been working hard on getting that Nav 9 to market and we’ve just heard that a review sample is going to be with us very soon. Apparently they’ve taken a few weeks to optimise a touchscreen that wasn’t up to par and in that time they’ve also updated the package and pricing.

Today Intel announce that their AppUp Center and the framework behind it is now available for Moblin and that it will begin accepting Euro and Pound payments opening it up to another 300+ million people. Future updates will be rolled up into MeeGo

Here’s the weekly rundown of items that we posted to the middle column on UMPCPortal, our ‘Other News’ section. It’s all good UMPC and MID-related stuff that, in most cases, we didn’t write about as a main news item. Shared Nokia N900 is a feast first enjoyed in small bites. Shared Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Maps for Android: Search ‘n Swipe, Latitude Widget, and More. Good to see Google [...]

Dynamism have just released all the prices and availability information for the S10 Blade range of devices.

While UMPC products have been available online at Best Buy through Dynamism’s Escape program for the last three years, it looks like Viliv have now secured a direct channel with Best Buy. This is great news for Viliv and great news for UMPC’s in general as a major sales channel takes ultra mobile computing more seriously. The news comes just as I’m wrapping up the full review of the Viliv [...]

Viliv are slowly making quite a name for themselves in the mobile computing market. We’ve seen 3 releases and 3 excellent products from them in the S5, X70 and S7. Next on the list is the Viliv S10 Blade, a very small and lightweight netbook with a convertible multitouch screen, a claimed 10hr battery life and, in the device we’re testing here, a fast, solid state disk and Windows Home Premium. The specifications look good but will Viliv be able to compete against a huge number of successful netbooks and similar ‘netvertible’ competitors? In our full review we dig deep into the device to find out.

It’s been about 2-weeks since I last used my daily desktop PC and 2-weeks since I’ve heard that horrible background noise of fan and disk. For the last two weeks I’ve been using a silent, modular, ‘grab and go’ solution based on the Fujitsu U820 UMPC and it’s working out very well indeed. You won’t find many solutions like this out there because this is one of the secrets of the UMPC world that marketing teams and board members get scared about – a multi-scenario device!

I’ve just finished the photo shoot of the Viliv S10…. View the full gallery (70+images) in the UMPCPortal Gallery.

UMPCPortal is where we take mobile devices and hold them up against a template of productivity, technology, battery life and engineering. We try and look deep into the technology to not only see what’s possible today, but what’s possible tomorrow and how it can fit into pro-sumer and productivity scenarios. If you’re looking for a more consumer-focused ride though, that’s what we do over at Carrypad. There we take mobile [...]

Here’s the weekly rundown of items that we posted to the middle column on UMPCPortal, our ‘Other News’ section. It’s all good UMPC and MID-related stuff that, in most cases, we didn’t write about as a main news item. Published Dell Mini 5 to Come with Amazon Books, Music, Video Capability.. This makes complete sense. Google provide the application channel and Amazon provide the content channel for the Dell Mini [...]

This is the forth in report on screen size analysis for PCs below 12” screen size appearing in the German market through the popular price comparison engine, Geizhals.at . The last one was done in November 2009

In this report you’ll see the big jump in numbers coming from the new Pinetrail devices. Below the graphs I highlight some key numbers.

This owner-review is from Yury Kritchever. Thanks Yury, for taking the time to feed back your experiences to the community. If anyone else would like to submit an owner-review, please contact us.

Over the last 4 years, Samsung have consistently produced good quality UMPCs and Netbooks. The NC10 is still a good netbook choice and the Q1 Ultra (image right) was a cracking UMPC. When Samsung announced that they would build an MID or UMPC back in 2008, we were interested to see what would happen. Unfortunately, not much happened. Samsung were a no-show at IDF08 and all we saw in the [...]

JKK has some fun with the BC10C. Remember this is based on an Intel Core CPU (1.3Ghz single core Celeron) and GMA 4500 GPU so its in a different class to the Atom based devices. Watch some of the demos in the video and you’ll immediately get a feel for the power of this device. jkkmobile: Hanvon TouchPad BC10C tablet review.

Meet:Mobility Podcast 45 is now available. Streamed live (meetmobility.com/live) on 12th March 2010 with special guest Charbax