Sorry about the late notice on this one but we’ve found a slot and we need to jump on it. At 2100 (CES) tonight (about 4hrs from this posting) we’ll be sitting down to prepare for a Meet:Mobility podcast (broadcast live) followed by (at approx 2230) a live videocast of the E-King S515. JKKMobile and Sascha will be joining and we’d love you to join too. See you on the live page later: View the broadcast time in your location

I had a great day today which is why I’m drinking more than one bottle of beer tonight. The UMPCPortal server got hit with a Slashdot article. And then an Engadget article. And then a Gizmodo article.  I woke up at 0800 to a DM from JKKMobile saying ‘Server Down’ so I rolled over, put the Archos Internet Tablet in its dock, picked up the U820 UMPC and got to work (while I sipped a nice cuppa that my wife had brought me.) The great thing about getting hit with […]

I’m not a big believer in convergence. It would be nice but on the whole, it’s a stupid dream. Here are five reasons why it won’t happen. You won’t be buying totally converged smartphones. Marketing – Does anyone think that marketing teams will let this happen? What are the chances of the marketing team saying this to the board: “We have an idea. Lets stop separate MP3 and digicam sales and just focus on selling the converged device. It’s cheaper for the consumer.” Buying cycle – The chances are that […]

EviGroup CEO Nicolas Ruiz just emailed us to let us know that the official website of the EviGroup Pad [info] is now live. Unfortunately it’s in French at the moment but Google does a reasonable job of translating it to English although I’m not so sure about the ‘toes’ bit!

If you’re relatively new to the UMPC scene, the name ‘EKing’ probably doesn’t mean much to you. They arrived on the scene to rescue the failing Wibrain brand and took on production of the i1; an ugly but very productive UMPC. In the last year they’ve also been working on new devices and the S515 [specifications] is one of them.

Sony might have stopped updating the VAIO UX series ultra mobile PC a while back, but the amazing guys over at MicroPCTalk certainly haven’t. In what is being championed as the masterpiece of the forum, a modded UX490 (the lastest UX model from Sony, released November 2007) features nearly every major mod that the community has come up with over the last several years. [original thread here]

Despite the availability of the X10 expected in Feb 2010, Amazon.de have already put it into their catalogue and have priced it up at 699 Euros making it the most expensive smartphone next to the HTC Advantage

Information is coming through on Google’s Chromium OS from a number of sources. (See below.) I’ve been following the Techcrunch blog and as a mobile-focused end-user, I’m picking up a number of things that turn me off.