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 FrontFace: a tablet-friendly front for Windows’ face. Shared Meego Chosen as the In-Vehicle Infotainment Platform By GENIVI Alliance. Shared Chinese 8.9 inch Windows tablet hits the FCC. Shared HP confirms [...]

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 iPhone 4 Reception Story Reaches a Climax Tomorrow; I’m Awaiting Apple’s Fix – Free Cases Won’t Cut It. We’ve stayed out of iPhone 4 [portal page] reception coverage until now, [...]

I must admit, I was disappointed when I heard news that HP had cancelled the Windows 7 Slate that we had famously seen Steve Ballmer demo during in his keynote at CES this year. Just as we thought all we had to look forward to from HP was a WebOS tablet, this little nugget of information pops up in a well hidden page on HP’s site. Specifications are slim but [...]

The tech blogs of the western world are literally full of slate, pad and tablet talk. ‘Smart’ this or ‘App-store’ that; There’s nothing like a new and controversial product category to get traffic flowing. Meanwhile, sitting in the background and forming a nuclear part of the handheld category of computing devices are the UMPCs that have been serving pro-mobile, industry and education users for many years. Consumers generally aren’t interested in a device targeted at getting work done while on the move but maybe that will change with the smooth-looking Viliv N5 which is meeting many of our expectations and could teach the ‘pads’ a few tricks too.

On the day that I stepped outside with my netbook to connect a solar panel and thought ‘hmm, a PixelQi screen would be nice,’ along comes a DIY article and test from Engadget on how to fit a PixelQi screen. Joanna Stern also gives some thoughts about usability and runs some tests to see just how much battery life the new screen would save over the old. It matches what [...]

I’ve been messing around with Solar energy again today… It turns out that the Viliv S10 has a 9.5v input. Having an input voltage below 12V is always an advantage for solar work and it’s even better when the X70 car adaptor works on the S10. I’ve connected the S10 up to a 24W solar panel and it’s charging the device even when it’s in-use. Given pure sun (2hrs either [...]

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. Posted Engadget – HTC Evo Review. Posted JKOnTheRun – HTC Evo Review. Shared 2 photos. Shared HTC not launching a tablet… yet. I recoon they should take the HTC Shift design, [...]

Meet:Mobility Podcast 53 is now available.

In this show recorded on the 9th July 2010 Chippy, Sascha and JKK talk about about Qualcomms uplink conference, the Viliv N5 and the possible waiting game in the netbook market right now.

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 Dial Keys on iPad – Alternate Keyboard Mockup. Posted Aava phone running Meego 1.1. Shared 10 photos. Published MeeGo 1.1 on Aava/Intel Smartphone. Live Pics. As the epicenter of Intel’s [...]

Two clamshell-style handheld PCs; Both offering great features, good battery life and usability at a price that would have been unheard of a few years ago. For the ultimate in thumb-able PCs, the Viliv N5 and UMID BZ have no competition. Sure, the Fujitsu UH900 and Sony P-Series look the same but these two are in a different sizing category and make a great alternatives to the OQO Model 02+ [...]

For those looking for the perfect handheld PC for road-warrior and productivity work, the Viliv N5 has to be near the top of the list. Sliders and tablets are great but nothing beats the clamshell format for practicality in terms of usage and ruggedness. Very similar to the UMID BZ, the Viliv N5 offers a desktop operating system on a very efficient Intel Menlow platform with long battery life, an [...]

UMID Korea now officially has the mbook SE (Special Edition) listed on their site. The mbook SE is just like the mbook BZ [Portal page] that Chippy thoroughly covered, but it has twice the RAM at 1GB and replaces the BZ’s 1.2GHz Intel Atom Z515 CPU with the Atom 530 running at 1.6GHz. The wireless has also seen a slight augmentation; it now supports WiFi N, in addition to B/G. [...]

I’ve long been a fan of the Pixel Qi screen technology, its ability to work in direct sunlight is something us tech folk have been waiting on for a long time. At Computex 2010 Pixel Qi showed us the technology compared with a Apple iPad and the results are stunning. JKK also got some time with the people at Pixel Qi to show us more how the technology works and [...]

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 Texas Instrument to Create Some Fire with Blaze Tablet. Shared Intel will natives Android 2.2 "Froyo" für Atom noch im Sommer freigeben | Netbooknews.de – das Netbook Blog. Intel will [...]

If the hardware and OS is cheap why not build business applications on top of Android? It’s proving to be slim, secure, well-supported, well documented and programmers are relatively easy to find. As we move forward we’ll see more and more single-use business applications move to the Android platform and the vertical markets that were the main customers for Windows-based UMPC products could fade away leaving  even less reason to [...]