Catchplay is a re-launch…no. Its a re-brand of VIA’s yet-to-be launched OnDemand P2P gaming and media platform that was presented at Computex last year. Digitimes reports a one-liner here and sure enough, there’s a new website teaser up. Architecture and market wise its very similar to Joost (was The Venice project. Run by Niklas Zennstrom of Kazaa, Skype fame.) Why am I mentioning this on a ultra mobile PC blog? Well its all to do with VIA, HTC, a possible ultra mobile PC from HTC, a virtual provider network from […]

TabletKiosk UK have contacted me to report that an i7209 was stolen from them and could I put the word out. Sure no problem TK. I’m impressed with your faith in the circulation of my journal. I suppose it beats a note on the door of the vilage hall though!  Details:  Stolen = TabletKiosk eo i7209. Fully boxed. All accessories included. Stolen from = Frankfurt Airport or Slovenia. TabletKiosk eo i7209 serial number = 98R01000028Q63300062. If anyone gets offered this please could they email sales@tabletkiosk.co.uk View details of all Ultra Mobile devices […]

My new estimate for 2007 ultra mobile PC sales: 700,000 units. Yesterday in the Computex website I read that ASUS were expecting to ship 10,000 R2H units per month in 2007. The R2H is currently one of, if not the, most popular ultra mobile PC on the planet so that gives us a big hint about sector-wide sales in 2007. Now consider this statistic from DigiTimes: VIA’s shipments of the CPUs and chipsets to OQO this year will allow the US vendor to roll out 40,000 UMPCs That doesn’t quite […]

I’ve read in forums that people are dissapointed with the Kohjinsha SA1 keyboard. Its time to do some testing! The Kohjinsha SA1 is so small that the keyboard could almost be called a a thumbboard. In some respects it’s an advantage because one of the great things about the SA1is that you can flip the screen flat, in line with the keyboard, and use it on a sofa in two-handed browsing and thumb-keyboard mode. In other respects its a disadvantage and to be honest, its not just the size of the keys that’s a problem, […]

It looks very very nice indeed. I like the way they’ve beveled the edges to be able to keep the frame thin and yet provide enough surface area for a mouse pointer. This is an incredibly stylish UMPC. There’s still no word on supplier, price or availability. Hardware specs look very 2006 and look at the battery. Its Lithium Polymer. This is a very bad sign that the Sony Li-ion problems last year have caused a backwards step. Li-Polymer is more stable but less dense. This could really cause problems […]

Hugo Ortega is UMPC obsessed. He currently has 7 UMPCs and we think that’s possibly a world record in the ‘most UMPCs in one house by a married man.’ category.

Impressive. (and thanks for pointing out the white one Hugo!)

Update: New images. Specs. Found on YouTube, this is a set of unknown ultra mobile PCs labeled US700, US701 and 702. They are a set of designs based on an Intel Celeron M 1.06Ghz with a 7″ display and from what I can see of the rest of the specs, there’s nothing too exiting or new about the internals. What is very interesting though are the externals (Very slick. Reminds me of Philips,) the very thin screen frame which includes a mouse pointer, the thin LCD on the convertible tablet […]

Ctitanic has left a nice present in the forums…

…a few images of the new eo v7110 docking station.

Check out the forum for more info and another pic and remember that this will support the Amtek T700 and variants including the Paceblade Easybook P7, it’s, AGO7 and Ubiquio 701.

Thanks Ctitanic and ToDoUMPC.com