Ctitanic has posted some extensive details (with pictures and warnings!) about how he upgraded the existing 40Gb drive to 100GB in the Tablet Kiosk eo. Now he’s free to load up as much music and video as he wants. The eo comes with a 2.5″ drive which is easy to get hold of and also available with higher spindle speeds than the 1.8″ drive in the Samsung Q1. In May, GuardianZX9 reported that he’d upgraded the 1.8″ drive in the Samsung Q1 so its seems that there’s no problem upgrading […]

A few more images and some info has surfaced through the Korean-language Shinhojun blog.Translation reveals some information that I’d interpret as ‘there’s no built in WLAN. The USB is used to enable a radio environment.’ Indeed, in the images, you can see a USB hub with a BT or Wifi adaptor attached. From hazard the W-LAN is not had built-in the size of the product inconveniently There’s an image of video performance specifications that I can’t translate. If any of our Korean readers can help out, please leave a comment. […]

I’ve been involved with a discussion on Origamiproject.com about whether the Nokia 770 internet tablet is an Ultra Mobile PC. My take is that it should be called a ultra mobile PC for two main reasons. Number one, its more than a PDA and runs a desktop kernel. Number two, it should be in the bracket just to stimulate designers into seeing what could be done with such a small form factor. I’m a big fan of what Nokia have done and the direction they are coming from. Unlike Microsoft […]

[update3: Gadgetkorea got hold of the Vega for review.][update2: more Vega pictures and notes. Journal entry here.][update: Vega details now in the product portal.] AVING, a Korean website have some great pictures of the Vega ultra mobile PC that was supposed to be launched next week. OK, its not an Origami-based ultra mobile PC and some will call it a pocket PC but its running a full version of Windows XP and it looks great. In the original article (Aving.net. More pictures available at their site.) there’s talk about 6 […]

The title sounds a bit like a school playground boast doesn’t it – “and my Dads got a Ferrari. And it goes 500 miles an hour.” – but I think I’ve found my 1500,- Euro ‘Carrypad Office companion’ that I was talking about recently. Its been quite a simple choice as it all boiled down to whether a docking station was available. The eo 7110/easybook P7 was at the top of the list just waiting for a docking station to complete the requirements but last week, Tablet Kiosk knocked it […]

From the land where unlimited 1Mbps 3G connectivity costs 10 euro per month and were many mobile phones are born comes not one, but two ultra mobile PC announcements. Coxion have been in the mobile computing market for a while, selling mainly to business and vertical market customers (that means bulk sales!). They’ve contacted me to let me know that there’s new things going on! Firstly, the WebBook 3G. The new version of the WebBook (here’s the existing one.) looks interesting. The unit is slightly re-designed, will utilise Windows XP […]

Ctitanic has just posted some ‘tips’ that are related to a teaser campaign that is running at the moment. The teaser ad (shown here at the Raon Digital website) hints at a new Pocket PC ‘Vega.’ OK. Nothing too exciting there. However, Ctitanic’s tips show a UMPC-like specification. AMD Geode LX800 DDR SDRAM 256MB 30GB HDD 4.3inch LCD Windows XP home 350g The specs come from a Korean website. (babel translation link.) Windows XP on an AMD LX800 is possible but it will be like running it on a PIII […]

There’s a fun site over at origamibattle.ning where you can choose between UMPCs in random ultra mobile PC fight-offs. I spent ages doing it yesterday wondering when it would come to an end. I gave up when I realised it was a continuous stream of random ultra mobile PC pow-wows!!! Current winner over there is the ASUS R2H. Funny that, its winning over here too. Based on the last 15,000 hits on the product portal, this is how the top ten ultra mobile PC ‘viewing chart’ looks right now. It’s […]