[url=http://www.gamespress.com/]GamesPress.com[/url] posted a press release late last week stating that the [url=http://nuclide.com]Nuclide[/url] developed game called Hammer Heads will be shown on the Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) devices in the Microsoft booth (booth #1246) at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles next week.

Nuclide Games announced the game last year and has apparently adapted it to the new device.

As far as I know this is the first third party game that has been announced for the system besides [url=http://www.popcap.com/press/index.php?page=press_releases&release=Origami_3-09-06]Bejeweled 2 and Zuma[/url] being installed on some of the systems.

More info about the game can be found on Nuclide’s website [url=http://nuclide.com/games/gnomes.html]here[/url]

The premise of the game is also sad to me as I was starting work on a Wack-A-Mole game which is very similar to a Wack-A-Gnome game. Who knows, maybe there’s still room for two of the same types of game.

Read the full press release below…

I promise i’m not really obsessed with battery life and power utilisation on UMPC’s but ever since I made predictions I’ve been interested to see how close i’ve been. Today, it appears I missed the mark with my predictions on battery life while watching films. Not just by a little bit, but by a whole hour! Ctitanic posted the results of his film duration test in his blog and he says that he only got 1:25 with wifi off, BT off, 50% brightness and playing from Flash disk.This is even […]

Jeff Angelo sent us a link to DualCor’s website showing the CPC and apparently solidifying it as a UMPC.

According to the info at [url=http://www.dualcor.com/umpc.php]http://www.dualcor.com/umpc.php[/url] the DualCor is going to be running both Windows XP Tablet/Edition 2005 and Windows Mobile 5.0. so that will be giving it an advantage over other UMPC devices as it will be able to run software for both platforms.

It also has both an Intel PXA263 400 MHz Embedded Processor and a VIA C7-M 1.5 GHz x86 Processor included for each of the systems.

One interesting difference is that the DualCor has a 5 inch screen instead of the 7 inch screen that all of the other UMPC devices have been seen with. But since it comes with the Microsoft Touch Pack as well, it must be of official Microsoft Specs.

As far as I can tell there is no release date yet, so hopefully there will be more info soon.

Thanks to our friends at The Tablet Store for understanding my terrible German and confirming availability and price info for the Paceblade Easybook P7 and for providing us with the first confirmation of a retailer, dates and end-user prices for the German market. As previously reported, the Easybook P7 European manufacturers price will be 1090,- Euro. The Tablet Store tell us that the German launch date is 22nd May The Tablet Store will be selling for an inclusive price of 1250,- Euro. RegardsSteve / Chippy. Und auf Deutsch:Das Paceblade Easybook […]

I’ve just read a very good article on the Linuxdevices.com website written by David Wood, co-founder and executive vice president of research at Symbian. David talks about convergance and how the migration of applications is tending towards smartphones and why smartphones have been a success. David is obviously somewhat biased being a leading figure in Smartphone OS developement but I concur with pretty much all he says and dont class the article as just propoganda. In the Carrypad journal, I have already written about a lot of what David has […]

The ultra mobile PC product portal gets many daily updates, tweaks and enhancements but yesterday, we finished setting up a really useful ultra mobile PC product tracking feature thats worth posting about. Using a normal RSS 2.0 feed reader, you can now subscribe to updates from all or any of the products in the ultra mobile PC product database. Currently, the feed includes reviews, comment, rumor, pricing and availbility links that we add into add the product datasheet from our hand-picked sources. (Many of these are in our link list.) […]

Jeff over at Apex Software just shot me an email letting me know they just recieved their shipment of eo’s. For those wondering, heres whats inside the box.

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More news for our UK readers on ultra mobile PC availability. We’ve seen on the Camtechsystems website today that the pre-ordering has started for the Paceblade Easybook P7. The price is £934.12 which is, as always, higher than prices over the pond. Details on the Easybook P7 (aka SmartCaddie), a device from the same mould as the Tablet Kiosk Eo, including images, notes and review links can be found in the Carrypad product portal here. Steve / Chippy View details of all Ultra Mobile devices in the ultra mobile PC […]