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 3Gnet makes Intel Powered UMPC designs – ARMdevices.net. Shared Dell 10-Inch Android Tablet Will Be Called Streak Pro. Published High Dynamic Range Computing. Shared Dell Leak Reveals Streak Pro, Lattitude [...]

When i met Vodafone at Cebit this year they were recording video response to the question ‘What’s The Cloud for you?’ I repeated a statement that I’ve made on the podcast a few times now – The Cloud isn’t mobile. There are few places in the world where you can rely on the connection between you and the Cloud to be stable and fast. In most parts of the world [...]

As I was researching new ways to manage documents on my Galaxy Tab yesterday I stumbled across a Google Docs application which I hadn’t seen before. It turns out it was released yesterday! As someone who uses Google applications heavily, both on the desktop and on my mobile devices, I was of course interested to see how far it extends into the realms of true productivity. It turns out that [...]

When the UMPC world had a little more momentum than it does today, Sony had a few high-end offerings that stood head and shoulders above most other models in that they had some amazing engineering and used some relatively high-end CPUs. The Sony UX range had a huge fan-base and still stands on its own against competitors today. Looking at the Freestyle PC that was revealed in  a Sony presentation [...]

Many thanks to Jeff Kent (Mobile Barbarian) for sending us this detailed review of his Eee Slate EP121 from real-life business scenario perspective. Remember, this is a 2.6lb device containing a 12” screen and Core i5 processor. Not quite a handheld but in some respects, still an ultra mobile device. I recently purchased the Asus Eee Slate EP121. As the term “Slate” indicates, the EP121 is a Slate (as opposed [...]

UMPCs, we’re not shy to say, are still important. They’re becoming more important too as people realise that there is a life for devices between 4 and 10 inches. UMPCs offer something that you can rely on to give you a high quality work and web experiences with the minimum of brick walls and maximum compatibility and flexibility. Unfortunately for pro-mobile fans, the number of true UMPCs has dropped to [...]

There are two very popular and very different Internet  viewpoints out there.  One shows social, app-centric, dynamic, location-aware mobile environments and the other looks out on high quality, feature rich work environments. [More on the two Internets and Web experiences here] Computing hardware platforms have crossed over from both sides but there’s still a problem getting apps across the bridge between the hand to the desktop. This article, adapted from [...]

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 Dell Streak 7 slate hits UK shelves at £299. Shared AMD C-60 netbook chip with Turbo Core coming soon? « Liliputing. Posted Eee pad transformer review – Engadget.

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 Google I/O Live: Free streaming of sell-out conference. Shared AMD courting Android talent and as new tablets head to Computex 2011. Shared Opera Mobile 11 for Android Walk Through & [...]

Technical sessions at Intel’s IDF in Beijing have all finished now so it’s time to go through some of the presentation material, the press releases and interview information from various sources to put together a summary of what Intel are planning with Cedar Trail in the netbook market. some details are still misssing but at this stage we can put together a fairly complete picture. Intel’s netbook strategy comprises two [...]

Meet:Mobility Podcast 68 is now available along with a special first hand-on report from Sascha with an early release of the Asus Iconia Tab A500 In the podcast we discuss some limitations of the AMD Fusion platform the Cedar Trail Netbook platform, attack the pricing of high-end tablets and talk about ‘High Dynamic Range Computing’ Listen in to find out more. Don’t forget to give us some feedback on iTunes [...]

You may recall that I lost a number of days work last week. Test results, screen caps and a whole bunch of text went out the window when I did a factory re-install on the device I was both testing and writing the article on. That will teach me! The article was Part 4 of the Ultra Mobile Video Editing series and was a detailed look at two Brazos-optimised video [...]

Shown at MWC this hear, this Fujitsu netbook gives us a hint at how early devices could be pitched. With a basic N450 CPU the MH300 offers a no-frills netbook experience with a 3-cell battery for a local, price of $322 in Malaysia (RM999) which seems, to me, quite expensive. Any Malaysia readers care to position this in terms of price? More details at this link http://www.lowyat.net/v2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4225&Itemid=1 Thanks @erlern Posted [...]

Information on Cedar Trail is being tightly controlled this week at Intels IDF event in China. Launch isn’t expected until the second half of the year with devices being ready for the Oct, Nov buying season so clearly the platform isn’t final yet. We’ve learnt that the video decoding hardware is on-board which indicates a new GPU and we’ve been told that Intel Wireless Display (with no mention of 1080p [...]

Z670 and Z650 Launched with 3W TDP Details of two Oaktrail parts have been revealed by Intel today confirming pretty much everything we knew already! Availability of the Oaktrail parts are ‘now’ but as I mentioned in a tweet a few days ago, the first products shipping with Oaktrail won’t appear until at least May. Two part numbers have been confirmed. The Z670 and Z650 (1.5Ghz and 1.2Ghz)  are both [...]

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 Huawei Ideos S7 Slim Android tablet hits the FCC. Shared ViewSonic readies a ViewBook 730 Android tablet launch. Shared How would you change HP’s Fusion-powered Pavilion dm1z?. Shared HTC confirms [...]

Ignore the old Orgiami-related UMPC term and take it for what it stands for. What do you want from your next Ultra Mobile Personal Computer? Next week at IDF Beijing, Intel will be revealing what we suspect to be Cedar Trail, the next generation netbook platform. The problem is that there have been big changes in this market in 2010 and 2011. Netbooks have changed thanks to AMD, the user [...]