[update: Before you contact me Tegatech (Hugo), I know! I’ve just seen the TabletKiosk 7200 series on your website. You deserve a link for my oversight and another link for offering the base model for AUS$1899. Hugo one of the principles of Techagate who runs a good blog also deserves a link. I promise I’ll pay more attention to the Oz market in the future.] Pioneer Computers in Australia are now offering the DreamBook ultra mobile PC H700 in their ultra mobile PC portfolio alongside the DreamBook ultra mobile PC […]

Don’t get too excited if you live in the Western world. It looks like Sony has launched a UX50 with a 1-seg digital TV receiver in Asia which isn’t much use to those of us living in Europe or America. Mobile Digital TV is one thing I’d love to see get sorted out in U.S. and Europe. At the moment its a mess of licensing and standards. For the meantime, we’ll have to settle with DVB-T in Europe and make sure we carry our usb-DVB stick and antenna with us! […]

One of my favorite ultra-mobile PC’s, the 8.9″ swivel screen tablet convertible Fujitsu P1510d looks like its getting a very nice set of upgrades which could bring it right to the cutting-edge of ultra mobile PC technology. Engadget has reported that details are up on a Japanese website and sure enough, there they are. (Google translation) The Loox P series uses an Intel U1400 (Core Solo ULV, 1.2Ghz, same as Sony UX90 and the Australian UX17 version.) processor with Intel GMA950 graphics engine and comes in varying flavors of disk […]

Maybe I shouldn’t have written about it this morning but I’ve just heard that the Averatec AHI is to be set for a possible launch in Q1 2007. Not Q3 2006 as was previously planned. Averatec sent this public message to me via email. Through development, we have refreshed our vision for the AHI and feel confident that we can release it during the first quarter of 2007. That’s a real shame because I felt (and still feel) that it stirred a bit of emotion amongst potential buyers just like […]

Very nice video show about the Sony UX180P. Warner Crocker brings up some interesting and important points. Especially the crazy location of the rear-facing camera. Within the show, Warner demo’s the Inscribe text entry software that I’m quite interested in trying out and learning myself. GottaBeMobile is where you need to go to watch the video. Steve. Sony UX data sheet, images and links. View details of all Ultra Mobile devices in the ultra mobile PC product database. From N800 to Flybook V5, its all there!

…Pioneer/Easybook P7/It’s/Ago7. I think that’s all of them covered! Ctitanic has posted some photos of the extended battery solution that Mugen are working on. No prices or dates yet. To me, it looks like a 9-cell solution. That will translate to just under 6 hours if the cells are a similar capacity to the originals. Very useable! More over at UMPCBuzz.   Steve / Chippy. tags: mugen, eo, t700, v7110, battery View details of all Ultra Mobile devices in the ultra mobile PC product database. From N800 to Flybook V5, […]

At the end of Spring, I published a ‘watchlist.’ A report on what we should look out for in the ultra mobile PC market during Summer. 3 months later its time to give it an update. New Nokia Internet Tablet.No new news on this one I’m afraid. I’m still confident that something will happen for the Christmas market although the probability is going down with every week that passes.Probability: 80%My guess on specs: Late summer release. $550. Slightly bigger screen. Better processor. Linux based. Keyboard. Samsung Q1 with VIA processor. “This […]

Akihabaranews are reporting this morning that ‘Suze’ (whoever she is) has a Vega ultra mobile PC and has done a review. Its available in Korean and helpfully (not!) all placed as jpg files. No chance to do much Google translation then! I assume that Akihabaranews will have a translated version of this soon but I’ll see if I cant de-cipher some of the review comments and get some info. On the way through the reviews and links, I found that the Raon Digital Korean language website has been updated with […]