While ultra mobile PC products have been available online at Best Buy through Dynamism’s Escape program for the last three years, it looks like Viliv have now secured a direct channel with Best Buy. This is great news for Viliv and great news for UMPC’s in general as a major sales channel takes ultra mobile computing more seriously. The news comes just as I’m wrapping up the full review of the Viliv S10 which will be published tomorrow. I’m just waiting for some feedback from Viliv on a few issues […]

Viliv are slowly making quite a name for themselves in the mobile computing market. We’ve seen 3 releases and 3 excellent products from them in the S5, X70 and S7. Next on the list is the Viliv S10 Blade, a very small and lightweight netbook with a convertible multitouch screen, a claimed 10hr battery life and, in the device we’re testing here, a fast, solid state disk and Windows Home Premium. The specifications look good but will Viliv be able to compete against a huge number of successful netbooks and similar ‘netvertible’ competitors? In our full review we dig deep into the device to find out.

As we watch company after company announce that they are bringing a slate to the market, it is clear that gadget makers are pushing this form factor as the next big thing. There is plenty of noise out there, but so far there are very few solid devices that are actually reaching consumers. Soon we’ll be looking at a storm of tablets hitting the market, and here is a roundup of the three that I think will have a significant impact on the future of this category and may end […]

It’s been about 2-weeks since I last used my daily desktop PC and 2-weeks since I’ve heard that horrible background noise of fan and disk. For the last two weeks I’ve been using a silent, modular, ‘grab and go’ solution based on the Fujitsu U820 UMPC and it’s working out very well indeed. You won’t find many solutions like this out there because this is one of the secrets of the UMPC world that marketing teams and board members get scared about – a multi-scenario device!

UMPCPortal is where we take mobile devices and hold them up against a template of productivity, technology, battery life and engineering. We try and look deep into the technology to not only see what’s possible today, but what’s possible tomorrow and how it can fit into pro-sumer and productivity scenarios. If you’re looking for a more consumer-focused ride though, that’s what we do over at Carrypad. There we take mobile devices and focus on the things that are important to the casual user. Price, features, ease of use, style and […]

This is the forth in report on screen size analysis for PCs below 12” screen size appearing in the German market through the popular price comparison engine, Geizhals.at . The last one was done in November 2009

In this report you’ll see the big jump in numbers coming from the new Pinetrail devices. Below the graphs I highlight some key numbers.

Spring Design this morning announced that its dual screen Alex eReader will be available online today. via Alex eReader now on sale in the U.S. for $399 a pop, starts shipping mid-April.

This owner-review is from Yury Kritchever. Thanks Yury, for taking the time to feed back your experiences to the community. If anyone else would like to submit an owner-review, please contact us.