From the “we should have reported this earlier and didn’t” department comes news from [url=http://www.emsnow.com/npps/story.cfm?ID=19360]emsnow.com[/url] that the Asus R2H has been delayed from release until July or August.

Asus’s product manager Alvin Chou said, “The performance and reliability of the machines, particularly in boosting the gaming experience and battery life, are being maximized to offer users a much better overall experience.” The company is also working on getting better specs in time for the release in the system.

According to Asus they will also be using their Power4 Gear + technology on their battery and say it will give them 30 minutes more over the Samsung Q1.

As for price they also revealed that the system will be under $1,000 and are trying to hit under $900. The system will include a version with and without GPS built in so there will be cheaper models available.

[update- Chippy] I’ve spotted on [url=http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=1582&a=179311&po=10,00.asp] PCMag.com[/url] that the Asus was spotted at WinHEC “listing it’s UMPC with an Intel Core Duo processor.”
[update2 02.06.06 21:31 CET] ASUS Germany have told us that the CORE DUO STORY is not true. “Die Aussage mit dem Intel Duo Core Prozessor stimmt nicht.” (The story about the core duo processor is not true.) Shame. The excitement was good while it lasted!

The 500- Euro laptop has arrived in Europe. (Yes, you may laugh now if you’re a North American consumer) Through golem.de we have just learned that the laptop/notebook price wars in Europe are continuing and the price has just broken through the 500 Euro ($650) barrier. This means trouble for the consumer ultra mobile PC market in Europe as the price differential between like-for-like spec laptops and UMPC’s gets wider. In fact, the premium now stands at over 100%. Double the price! The notebook in question is based on a […]

This is more of a test post really, but i’m publishing here a short video sequence I made of the Paceblade Easybook P7. No commentary included! Actually the video is pretty, no, make that ‘very’ boring but if you’re thinking about buying the Paceblade, you might want to see the Paceblade on-screen keyboard, a video running and an old version of Need for Speed (was still fun!). The more entertaining bit of the video starts at 4:18. I’m quite impressed with YouTube. Seems like a good way to share videos […]

The summer of Ultra-Mobile PC’s is hotting up despite the rain continuing to fall here in Cologne, Germany. Just what we need for the World Cup starting in just over a week! Having put the new portal live, its time to re-visit some of the rumours and teasers in the ultra mobile PC world and get my RSS filters set up! Here’s the watch-list and some highly accurate guesswork (!) on the details. New Nokia Internet Tablet.This is the device that really could stir things up in the ultra mobile […]

Steve Paine over at [url=http://www.carrypad.com]CarryPad.com[/url] has just posted a nice [url=http://www.carrypad.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=9]in depth review of the PaceBlade EasyBook P7[/url].

Now that these devices are available in Europe and look like a viable buy for UMPC purchasers his review is a welcome review for people thinking about picking one up.

I’m very pleased to be able to report that we’ve just launched a new portal and gallery for ultra mobile PC devices. On the new portal you’ll find easy access to all our previously published reports along with RSS and search facilites. (I’m still migrating some from the blogger journal into the new portal) Also available is the first of our ultra mobile PC reviews – The Paceblade Easybook P7 review.Through the new front-end, you’ll also be able to access the other areas of the site:The journal will continue as […]

[url=http://www.winfuture.de]Winfuture.de[/url] sent me a link to some [url=http://www.winfuture.de/news,25602.html]new images[/url] they got from WinHec this past week.

Microsoft had a lot of stuff to say about the new UMPC devices and how they feel the form factors will be changing in the next couple years. (As well as a bunch of Vista info.)

One of the more interesting pictures they showed was the Xbox controller looking device that supposedly is a gaming style UMPC. Though Microsoft pointed out that they would not be creating this device they were hoping the manufacturers would design UMPCs like that.

They also showed a media UMPC:
[img]http://www.origamiportal.com/origami/images/winhec2006/umpc_media_small.jpg[/img]

I started looking online for some other pictures and I found this picture on flickr.com from a user named [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ratsinis/152226794/]ratsini[/url] that showed what looks to be an AMD UMPC.

[img]http://www.origamiportal.com/origami/images/winhec2006/amd_umpc.jpg[/img]

For more pictures including a GPS enabled UMPC check out the [url=http://www.winfuture.de/index.php?page=wfv4/BSv2/scg-ia.php&id=1809&seite=2]winfuture.de image gallery[/url]

Also Microsoft has WinHec keynotes speeches and info [url=http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/default.mspx]on their website[/url]

[b]Update May 31st:[.b] Jeff from [url=http://www.apexwin.com/]Apex Software[/url] pointed out that the “AMD UMPC” is actually a tablet from
[url=http://www.xybernaut.com]Xybernaut[/url].

Thanks Jeff

There’s no point hiding information. Google will find it sooner or later. With that in mind, i’ve decided to cut out the middle man and share my UMPC-related OPML file. For those that don’t know what an OPML file is, its basically a list of RSS/Atom feeds in a file that you can import into RSS news aggregators. Its the list of feeds I watch to keep myself updated with news from the ultra mobile PC sector. I’ve posted the file and linked it on the Carrypad Links page. For […]