Reported by Techfresh nearly a month ago is early information on a 7” ARM-based tablet from Witstech. The A81. I have a feeling that the ‘WinCE’ specification put a lot of people off but it might be worth taking a closer look as it supposedly has a capacitive touchscreen and runs on an unspecified ARM Cortex A8 core.

Thanks to the Intel Insider program I was able to take part in the Mobile Dev Camp in Munich last week and what a great day it was. As with Hamburg and Amsterdam (I really must visit a Mobile Dev Camp in a country that speaks my own language soon!) I was blown away by the skill and focus of the developers and the quality of the presentations. I’m not a developer myself but I learnt a lot. I’m sure others did too. Read on for more info from MDC09.

Laptopmag have beaten me to a full review of the Archos 5 Internet Tablet. That will teach me for playing around with it too much! Read on…

Mobilx were in touch yesterday with an update on availability of some of the most interesting UMPCs of the year. They will be selling the UMID M1 and the complete range of Viliv devices; the S5, X70 and S7.

Jerry Kurtze highlights some of the most important changes you need to make to a stock XP build on a small screen. Does anyone know what the XP Overlay UI is? More information on the Viliv S5 here.

Here’s an unboxing of the UMPC that might just get an award for ugliest device of the year!
Looks to be more usable than the UMID M1 that we think is based on.

No, this isn’t Moblin 2.1 for handhelds but it’s a step in the right direction along the roadmap (shown in article.) As 2.1 for handhelds feeds in (due for a beta release before the end of the year) the two branches of 2.1 should merge to make way for a unified OS that can support MIDs (on Moorestown) UMPCS (with some tweaking of drivers to support Menlow) and the netbooks and nettops that this new release of Moblin is aimed at. Moblin 2.1 for netbooks is now available for download.

There has been a rush of news around the xpPhone recently culminating in a rush of posts by top blogs and, over the last 24 hours, an article from the IDG news service that hit PCWorld and others top-tier reporting sites. Here’s an update on the device including information on the CPU.