Not only have we got to wait until April 18th to find out what’s in the Q1 Ultra ultra mobile PC but there are huge question marks now about what’s in the lovely looking HTC Shift. It runs Vista, it runs Aero Glass apparently, its rumored to have a VIA processor inside, HTC is a company closely connected with VIA and yet even VIA’s UMD bloggers don’t know what’s really driving it. Bjorn Stromberg says:
About the only thing I can say is that Engadget seems to be spreading this rumor and I have no idea where they got their information. HTC isn’t releasing any information about which CPU they’ve chosen and as such, VIA is unable to talk about it at this time.
VIA don’t even seem to have a Vista capable solution that runs without Aero Glass yet. None of the VIA-based UMPCs are shipping with Vista and there has been no public word about it since CES back in Jan.
If HTC are going to release this ultra mobile PC in six months with VIA inside there’s a lot of work to be done. It could be a new C8-M processor, it could be a new CoreFusion part, it could be an enhanced VN896 chipset. We just don’t know. VIA. Some info please? Are you really working on something or should we all concentrate on the Intel announcements on April 18th.
