Tablet PC MVP WNewquay of TabletPCBuzz has started a TabletPC wiki which should build up to a nice community knowledge center for Tablet PC and variants (including UMPCs.) This is a place where you can find, add, and edit knowledge about your Mobile Technologies. The initial focus is on Tablet PCs, Ultra Mobile PCs (Origami) and Media Center PCs. As various technologies converge, we may see articles on other gear, but for now our focus will be on Windows Tablet and Touch Technologies. There’s a section on UMPC’s which I […]

AGOPC, a new ultra mobile PC reseller, have today launched their first product, the ago7 UMPC. In a press release received from the company, agopc highlights better pricing as the way to broaden the ultra mobile PC market and has launched the Amtek T700-based ago7 with 512MB RAM and a 40GB drive at $899. The ago7 goes head-to-head in America against the Tablet Kiosk v7110 as it’s basicaly the same device under the logo but with a $100 price advantage you’ll have change left over for the 6-cell 5-hour battery. […]

From day one, we’ve defined a ultra mobile PC as an Ultra Mobile PC! It seemed a fairly simple concept that all these devices should be under the same umbrella and as we move on, its becoming clearer that for everyone’s benefit, these devices need to be grouped together. When we say ‘everyone’, we mean manufacturers, resellers, journalists, marketing and PR companies and of course, ultra mobile PC owners. The ultra mobile PC ‘platform’ or segment (WhatisNew called it the ‘small form factor platform’ which is a nice term but […]

In our [url=http://www.origamiportal.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=543&forum=8&post_id=2620#forumpost2620]forums[/url] today, jsnorman is reporting his first impressions about the Samsung Q1 SSD.

Like the Sony UX 90S, it contains a flash drive, in this case 32GB, and costs significantly more than the base product. Its also only available in Asia.

Jsnorman reports that the boot up speed is much faster and normal operation seems faster. But here’s the important news. With the extended battery (thats the 5-hour battery) he’s getting 8.5 hours.

[quote]Here is the kicker; I am getting 8.5 hours on my last run doing wireless, bluetooth and typing. That is significantly better than I have seen elsewhere, and it must be attributable to the SSD.[/quote]

The Samsung Q1 SSD is available for $2450 through the ebay reseller [url=http://stores.ebay.com/Mobile-Life-with-KORIS-CO_W0QQssPageNameZl2QQtZkm]Koris[/url]

If anyone with a base Q1 wants to help jsnorman complete some more testing, pop over to the [url=http://www.origamiportal.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=543&forum=8&post_id=2620#forumpost2620]forum.[/url]

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Raon Digital have finally opened their ‘teaser’ website for the VEGA ultraportable PC.

The website confirms recent rumors on the specifications with an AMD LX800 at the heart of the device, a 4.3″ touchscreen, Windows XP Home edition, 256MB RAM, VGA out, USB ports.

There’s no word on pricing or availability outside Korea at the moment although the price is rumored to be around $700 making it very competitive.

The Raon Digital Vega website is now live! The “Ultraportable PC Vega” specifications are pretty much as we expected.There’s no built in Wifi which is very very disapointing. Obviously, space is an issue in such a small package and if you have to choose to between USB ports and built-in Wifi, I guess USB is the more useful. A WLAN adapter is included in the package to ease the pain! The procesor is the AMD LX800 with its ‘companion chip’, the CS5536. The CS5536 includes 2D processing for video but […]

I have to admit, it looks desireable and it will probably sell well. The new Sony Mylo (you must have heard about it by now?) has a nice specification and a nice price but I won’t be covering it on the Carrypad portal. Like the other ‘almost-UMPCs’ that I reported on recently the screen isn’t big enough for either video or rich web browsing, two very important functional factors that seperate PDA’s, smartphones and the Mylo from UMPCs. Comparisons with the Nokia 770 that i’ve seen on other websites are […]

[Gadget Korea have removed all references to the Vega. Details here.] GadgetKorea got hold of a VEGA and managed to do some testing.Apperently its very good! The review is was here. I don’t really understand how they’ve managed to get such video performance out of this device as the built in graphics on the LX800 ‘companion chip’ (as AMD call it.) don’t seem capable of 3D graphics. There must be an external GPU solution in this. The review mentions that videos play well: play videos at 25fps at a very […]