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‘In Other News…’ March 17th

Posted on 17 March 2010

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. …

Screen Size Analysis (Sub 12″) March 2010. ‘Hi-Res’ and Pinetrail Feature.

Posted on 17 March 2010

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.

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ASUS T91 Convertible. Owner-Review.

Posted on 16 March 2010

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.

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Samsung ‘Slate’ in 2H10. Why MeeGo and Moorestown are High on the List.

Posted on 16 March 2010

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…

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Hanvon TouchPad BC10C Tablet Shows Its Strengths on Video

Posted on 13 March 2010

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…

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Meet:Mobility Podcast 45 – Cream of the Expo – CeBIT 2010 roundup.

Posted on 12 March 2010

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

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10 Mobile Computing Reports

Posted on 12 March 2010

I’ve written  lot of reports about ultra mobile computing, netbooks, segmentation, X86 vs ARM and other mobile computing topics over the 4 -year life of Carrypad/UMPCPortal and after doing some categorization and tagging today I thought I’d take the chance…

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Live Podcast Friday. (If You’re Quick!)

Posted on 12 March 2010

I just wanted to drop you all a note to let you know we’ll be doing a MeetMobility podcast in a few hours. At 1200 GMT+1 on Meetbobility.com/live you’ll find Sascha, JKK and myself talking our usual mobile computing talk with a focus on what happened (or didn’t!) at CeBIT.

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The ‘Full Internet Experience’ of 2010

Posted on 11 March 2010

The Internet experience has split into two in the worst way possible. The mobile internet is no longer a subset of the ‘Full’ Internet; it is now a separate world offering features that the desktop just can’t offer and the…

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‘In Other News…’ March 10th

Posted on 10 March 2010

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. …

Mobiputing Launches.

Posted on 10 March 2010

Congratulations to Brad Linder today as he launches mobiputing.com What a great name!

As you can probably guess from the name, mobiputing is and will continue to be a sister site to Liliputing. But while Liliputing is focused…

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‘Netbook’ Searches are Topping Out. What Happens Next?

Posted on 10 March 2010

Back in August 2009 I took a look at some of the keywords in mobile computing. My top tips at that time were Moblin and Maemo. Obviously I was wrong on that one as both of those two keywords…

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Viliv S10 Open Review: Session Debrief.

Posted on 09 March 2010

Once again we had a great audience for our live open review last night. Over 600 people dropped in to watch JKK and I testing out the Viliv S10 in an extended, close-up, warts-exposed review session.

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Webciety: Challenges and Potential of Mobile Work.

Posted on 08 March 2010

In this video from Webciety, at CeBIT Sascha Pallenberg (Netbooknews, Meetmobility), Joanna Stern (Engadget), JKK (JKKMobile,MeetMobility), Carmen S. Villadar (What’s Up Android) and Arno Glompner (Blackberry) talk about the Challenges of Mobile Work.

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Long-Term Update and Review Round-up: UMID BZ UMPC

Posted on 08 March 2010

Long story short, the UMID BZ is a superb bit of kit and one of the best UMPCs that I have ever tested. Here’s the long story…

3 Convertible Netbooks Compared

Posted on 08 March 2010

The Viliv S10, Lenovo S10-3T and Gigabyte T1000 sit in the 1.2-1.5KG bracket and are therefore just outside the range that we normally focus on here at UMPCPortal but given the multiple usage scenarios offered by the touch-capable convertible form-factor…

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Viliv S10 Open Review. Live Video, Chat at 2130 GMT+1 Today.

Posted on 08 March 2010

Our live, open reviews are becoming extremely popular and tonight we expect an even bigger turnout for one of the stars of the ‘netvertible’ world, the Viliv S10. Slim, stylish and multitouch capable; it really shows how designs…

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