TabletKiosk have just launched the MP3400 power bank that can be used with  many portable devices including UMPCs. For $159 you get a 56W/hr battery (more than twice the capacity of the standard battery on the v7110 and i7200 series UMPCs) along with a number of tips for using the battery with different devices. There’s also a mains adaptor. The battery is adjustable for voltages between 9 and 19V and from what I can see, you can charge the device through a 12V supply. Considering a standard 24W/hr battery for […]

TabletKiosk have just launched the MP3400 power bank that can be used with  many portable devices including UMPCs.

For $159 you get a 56W/hr battery (more than twice the capacity of the standard battery on the v7110 and i7200 series UMPCs) along with a number of tips for using the battery with different devices. There’s also a mains adaptor. The battery is adjustable for voltages between 9 and 19V and from what I can see, you can charge the device through a 12V supply.

Considering a standard 24W/hr battery for the i7210 costs $90, this represents pretty good value for money. Just remember to adjust your power settings because when you plug this in, the UMPC will think it’s connected to a mains supply and switch to a less efficient power setting.

More info here.

The Samsung Q1P is the Pentium version of the Q1 UMPC. In addition to the slightly faster Pentium processor it has 1GB RAM and a 60GB drive (The Q1 has 512/40)

Its been available through some specialist retailers for a while but has only recently appeared on the Samsung website in the U.S. Pocketables have just got hold of one and have published some great images on their site. There isn’t much to see on the outside as the Q1 is exactly the same but the images of the organiser are really nice.

What we also haven’t seen yet is a side-by-side comparison of the Q1 and Q1P performance. How much difference does it really make to have 10% more clockrate and a dollop of layer 2 cache. From experience I know that the battery life advantages of speed stepping are pretty much lost when you couple it with the power-hungry screen, a spinning hard drive and a WiFi module. I’d also dispute the fact that a Pentium is really that much more powerful than the Celeron. In normal use you wouldn’t notice it. The extra memory and hard drive are definitely an advantage but is it worth the extra money?

The Samsung Q1P is the Pentium version of the Q1 UMPC. In addition to the slightly faster Pentium processor it has 1GB RAM and a 60GB drive (The Q1 has 512/40) Its been available through some specialist retailers for a while but has only recently appeared on the Samsung website in the U.S. Pocketables have just got hold of one and have published some great images on their site. There isn’t much to see on the outside as the Q1 is exactly the same but the images of the organiser […]

This time next week I’ll be celebrating (German) Christmas day and in 2 weeks I’ll be drinking in the new year. So here’s the last Sunday post of 2006. How sad. Ctitanic has put up a  repost of his Compact Flash article. If you’re a Samsung Q1 owner and you’re looking for something to stick in that slot (!) Look no further. Uncle Frank has the answers. Thoughtfix has got hold of an eo 7110 (Ago7, Easybook P7, Amtek T700) bumpcase and the the 6-cell battery. It looks OK but I think […]

GPS Passion is a very very good site for GPS and navigation news and reviews and I follow it every day. They took the ASUS R2H and tested it out with Autoroute 2007 (Streets and Trips 2007 – EU version) and iGuidance V3. (U.S. maps only) iGuidance V3.0 (I’m confused – I didn’t think this was available with European maps. Mabye this is an old map set in the new software?)   Autoroute 2007. There are some nice pictures and a few valid comments too. For example there’s a comment about the […]

This is a wonderfully consumable UMPC/Carrypad recipe that can be made in the months before a festive occasion. Christmas, CES, CeBit and Computex are the best times. My variation includes some lessons I’ve learnt from great ultra mobile PC cooks such as Mrs ASUS, Jamie OLPC and those great Apple, IBM and PSION recipes of old. Its fun for all the family to make, bake and consume. This recipe serves one. Approximate preparation time is 4 months. (Re-forming an old preparation is possible to save time but often results in bad tastes, bad consistency and flaky glazing. My […]

TFOT=The Future of Things. I couldn’t fit it all on a one line header! They have a great article on solid state drives. It includes an interview with Samsung and its a, sorry, ‘must read.’ the most significant performance advantage comes from its latency feature – less than 1 millisecond; roughly 10-15x faster than a hard disk drive. UMPC’s will have to drop the HDD in 2007 if they’re going to meet the battery life challenge. I’d like to see flash drives for the operating system and 1.8 spindles as a second […]