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Latest Mobile Windows News: User Guide of Dell Latitude XT leaked with more details about mobile broadband support December 04, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs]  Dell is breaking with old tradition of not making Tablet PC notebooks! Now everything is possible: also smartphones from Dell! Dell Latitude XT is not on sale yet but it will be one of the smallest Tablet PC notebooks, and apart from digitizer support it will support also genuine multi-touch display (unlike fake multi-touch that Lenovo offers although in fact it is just "single-touch combined with active digitizer"). Interestingly this small Tablet PC features built-in mobile broadband, including external "whip antenna":  more... Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 4 Comments ]OQO e2 with HSDPA coming this week December 04, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs]  Apparently this week American OQO company will announce in London a European version of HSDPA-equipped UMPC with following band support: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) Gitex 2007 : Kevin Chen from HTC interviewed about HTC Shift September 09, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Apparently HTC Shift doesn't have real Windows Mobile but just a modem that is powered by cut-down (without Office Mobile, without phone calling part) version of Windows Mobile: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)HTC Shift runs both: Windows Vista AND Windows Mobile ! August 12, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] By now HTC was showing the HTC Shift Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) - during various events and conferences - only behind a glass. However recently it has given one unit of HTC Shift to a Microsoft MVP (in Tablet PC area, from GottaBeMobile site) so that he should present it during Tech Ed Australia! The biggest revelation is that HTC Shift actually runs both Windows Vista and (!) Windows Mobile and it even has 2 processors and can run 2 modes! A video review of HTC Shift is now available (here: HTC Shift running in Windows Mobile mode with "H" denoting "HSDPA" in title-bar): 
... and new details have been revealed about this interesting device: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 12 Comments ]Microsoft works on notebooks with multi-touch June 21, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] During press conference of Microsoft when UMPC was unveiled to the public for the first time in history we (we were there on location!!!) asked a question "what about support for multi-touch in UMPC?". At that time we didn't get any specific answer. But buy now Microsoft has unveiled commercially (!) the Microsoft Surface technology (a table with multi-touch display) and now it has been revealed, that Microsoft is working also on notebooks that would support genuine multi-touch: 
more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Raon EVERUN UMPC announced June 01, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Slowly purchasing big smartphone or PDA phone is having less and less sense because cheap UMPC devices are coming, like this one: 
more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 9 Comments ]Major New Palm Product Announcement Tomorrow May 29, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Over the past several years, Palm has secretly been developing a new class of product, to add to its existing PDA and smartphone lines. The new category will be announced by Palm founder Jeff Hawkins at a financial conference in California tomorrow. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Bye bye Windows Mobile, hello Tablet PC - says Dell May 19, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] End of rumors and it is official now: yet in year 2007 a Tablet PC from Dell is coming! Recently Dell has discontinued Windows Mobile PDAs but instead Dell is entering Tablet PC market now. 
Apparently this new Tablet PC is designed for "education, healthcare and corporate market place" and features: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 6 Comments ]Photo review of Fujitsu UMPC May 18, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Here we present photos, including real-life photos, of ultra mobile PC (UMPC) that is coming soon to the market and that can revolutionize mobility - due to low price (roughly 50-60% of some other UMPC computers = less than 700 British pounds or less than 1000 Euro or just around 1200 USD)! Some people start having doubts whether it makes snese to buy very expensive smartphones if UMPC computers are becoming so affordable... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]Microsoft Research news : Shift - Pen/Stylus based device navigation and finger navigation May 16, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Unfortunately this technology has not been released yet for Windows Mobile phones with touch screen but a demo for Windows XP is available so if you have some UMPC with touch screen, you can give it a try! With Shift one can easily select even small elements of the display, what can make usage of the touch screen much more precise: 
Anyway: there is long way from Microsoft Research to Microsoft products, so this technology may never end up in Windows Mobile, but it is good to see that Microsoft, albeit slowly, is working on improvements of mobile device usage... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)Not much Windows Mobile at WinHEC conference - mostly UMPC in the spotlight May 16, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Lots of mention about mobile devices in the WinHEC keynote by Bill Gates, but he was talking about UMPC rather than about Windows Mobile... more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)More details about HTC Shift revealed and further cooperation with Intel April 19, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] HTC announced the power behind the Shift device announced at CTIA; Intel’s new Ultra Mobile Platform. This mobile computing experience was officially announced at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. Intel’s platform is based on the Pentium M architecture with optimizations for significantly extended battery life within a small form and includes the Intel A110 processor, Intel 945GU Express chipset, and Intel ICH7U I/O controller hub. more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)CTIA 2007 : video report about FlipStart - UMPC that looks like ultra-small notebook April 01, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] It is just slightly bigger than Treo smartphone but offers full Windows Vista or Windows XP compatiblity and usable QWERTY keyboard! Furthermore it can be docked and used as desktop replacement and has support for cellular broadband connectivity. Here comes video presentation from Keith Arnodt from FlipStart: 
... that you can see here (Flash-enabled browser needed): more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)HTC Shift unveiled at CTIA - HTC jumps on the UMPC bandwagon with Windows Vista powered device with HSDPA March 26, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] First device from HTC branded by HTC but not powered by Windows Mobile is "HTC Shift" - a UMPC powered by Windows Vista (with Aero and Flip3D supported), that also features cellular connectivity ( including HSDPA), Wi-Fi, 30 GB hard disk. 
HTC writes: more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 10 Comments ]Live from CeBIT 2007 : Samsung presents ULTRA - part 2 of 2 - UMPC March 16, 2007; [Ultra-Mobile PCs] Why Samsung should name successor to Q1 a Q2 if it can be called "Q1 Ultra"? ... and thus fit into overall Samsung's "Ultra" strategy !? Instead of giving you photo gallery and call it "hands-on with..." we are presenting here more interesting approach.... so firstly let's take a look at this chart from Samsung that compares old Q1 and more...Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]Previous page Next page |
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