That’s what it says on the logo, and that’s what they achieved last Thursday through their sponsorship of the ultra mobile PC meet-up at CeBIT in Hannover. Whether ARM, AMD, Intel or VIA-connected, it didn’t matter because everyone had a great time. There’s even rumors of some business being done in the dark corners of the cellar bar so it wasn’t all just play play play!
Wibrain were there showing their B1 range of UMPCs, Fortune Fountain showed Dial Keys Gen2, Linpus demoed their small screen Linux build, Hanbit brought along the latest version of the Pad (with a very nice LED-backlit screen I might add!), TheTabletStore were available to chat, Amtek were there, Intel turned up, A-Bit brought along their MID, Mobilx were there, OLPC Austria brought along a green machine and there were a number of UMPCPortal members there including Sonietje who brought along his 24 hour old HTC Shift, the lucky man! The highlight of the evening though was the team photo, a 25-device line-up of mobile devices.
The great thing about the whole evening is that everyone was really positive about the mobile computing sector; from the convergent smartphones all the way through to the ‘power-house’ UMPCs. Resellers were able to hear feedback abut what devices were regarded as popular, manufacturers were able to talk about future plans and the CPU guys from VIA and Intel heard all our complaints! No one was complaining at the end though when JKK bought a round of traditional Finnish iced vodka! Thanks to Sonietje for sending this team photo in. 18 mobile devices and a bar. life just doesn’t get much better!
Last year we had ten people, this year 40 people turned up. Who know’s what’s going to happen next year! Thanks VIA for a great night out!
Note: To anyone that was there and has photos of the event, please send me copies and i’ll place them in the gallery.
