Sorry about the lack of presence here over the last 24 hours. I was at the UMPCShop.nl open day and took the opportunity to visit friends in Holland. There’s nothing major to report but I got a nice interview with Martin Day, the director of international channels for OQO where I asked him about the lack of touchscreen and HSDPA. I’ll put that video up in the next 48 hours.
I also got to talk to one of the European distributors for UMPCs, Mobile Point, who are going to try and get me some info on a Gigabyte refresh device. Which is funny because I’ve just seen that Yodofu has posted info about an M704 device in the forums here. This 1.2Ghz version could be the one. I’ll have to wait and see.
I met Mark from PocketInfo.nl and a handful of UMPCPortal fans and it was great to chat UMPCs for 4 hours. It really made me think that we should get more sessions together with distributors and reseller’s. At the very least we should make a bigger ultra mobile PC meet-up next year at CeBIT! Does anyone know how much the booth babes charge per hour?
I’m off to play with an iPhone now. Not very exciting for those of you that are Stateside but believe it or not, I haven’t had hands-on yet. I’ll take the camera, 605 Wifi and Everun and see if I can get some browsing comparison videos done for Carrypad. Shame I don’t have the N800 any more but I’ve signed a loan form for the N810 already so that should be turning up as soon as the demo devices arrive at Expansys.
Have a great weekend everyone.
