Yup. One lucky guy in Holland got hold of an Asus R2H UMPC. This has been a crazy week of UMPCs. First Samsung start selling the Q1 with a Pentium without telling anyone and then ASUS start stealth-shipping the R2H. Haven’t they heard of Carrypad yet ;-) ZhuBaJie at Origamiproject forums is the owner so get over there and keep an eye on the thread for new info. jkontherun had a bit more info yesterday about the reseller in Holland. MyCom. I’m driving back through Holland on Sunday. I’m sooooo […]

Cars are one of the many places that UMPC’s fit in very well. Only a short session browsing the forums at MP3car.com gives you an idea of how popular car pcs are becoming. As I write this there are 450 people actively reading the forums, they have 50,000 members and have nearly 900,000 postings. That’s huge and until now, all they had were hand-built PC’s. Now the ultra mobile PC is on the scene, I think it will open up the possibilities to many many more people. The Vega ultra […]

Update: The manual linked to in this article is not the final release. Just a draft that I have been able to get hold of. Both Gottabemobile and UberTablet websites have unboxings underway so I thought I’d pull out all the stops and go one better. What I’ve got for you today is the exclusive ‘opening’ ceremony for the Vega Ultra Portable PC manual. In English no less. [Is that the sound of a church bell, the doors of a saloon? Is that tumbleweed rolling across the screen there?] I’ve […]

I’m still hanging off that 56kbps modem with no flash support right now so haven’t watched this yet. Its a short video of the Medion RIM 1000 ultra mobile PC (we think!) Take a look here. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it’s not a video of Barry Manilow or some other unsightly experience! Thanks to Jason for sending the link in. Steve / Chippy. View details of all Ultra Mobile devices in the ultra mobile PC product database. From N800 to Flybook V5, its all there!

Both Bigbeaks and Ctitanic have received their extended battery solutions for the Tablet Kiosk v7110. As expected, 6-cells instead of three is doubling the battery life up to over 3 hours minumum. Thats about 4 hours under normal conditions and up to 5 hours in low-use scenarios. Guys. How’s the extra weight (around 250gms was my guess) and extra bulk. Is it still hand-holdable? This model battery should fit the Paceblade Easybook P7, Ago7, It’s and all other re-badged Amtek T700s. RegardsSteve / Chippy. View details of all Ultra Mobile […]

Dennis Rice of GottabeMobile just got a new Tablet Kiosk i7210 Ultra Mobile PC and has posted a brief video. I haven’t been able to watch the video yet as I’m on a 56kbps modem here but i’m sure its worth watching as they do some good videos at Gottabemobile. The i7210 is the second Pentium-M based ultra mobile PC to be available in the U.S. (last week a Pentium-M based Q1 appeared.) and should provide good performance advantages over Celeron based UMPCs. I’m also expecting to see some battery […]

It looks like Medion have something mobile and pc-like up their sleeve according to the number of Medion-tagged messages I have here. I don’t have all my resources to hand at the moment (my Mothers PIII450 isn’t so efficient!) but it appears that none of the German websites have any extra information about this device. Engadget heard it via gadgetzone in Holland and this is about all we know: The specs aren’t bad neither, with a 6.5-inch touchscreen, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, onboard GPS, DVB-T tuner and webcam. Again we’re […]

Here’s proof from Millard (origamiportal.com member) that the Q1 he has is a Pentium based device. Click to enlarge. The model number of the unit is still ‘Q1.’ I suspect that this is to get round a costly and time-consuming FCC approval process. Thanks Millard. We’ll be following this up on the Origamiportal thread here. Steve. tags: q1, Pentium, umpc View details of all Ultra Mobile devices in the ultra mobile PC product database. From N800 to Flybook V5, its all there!