About 10 months ago I put Carrypad.com on ice and continued my work under the UMPCPortal banner. Things have gone exceptionally well and UMPCPortal is now one of, or, according to a Google search for UMPC, THE most popular news and info site for UMPCs. Thanks to everyone who’s helped with that process and long may it continue. During the last 10 months we’ve talked a lot about sub-UMPCs, ARM-based devices, consumer Internet web pads, smartphones and MIDs and recently we’ve seen a lot of activity indicating that there’s going to be an influx of devices into this new product category. With that in mind, I’ve decided to re-start the Carrypad site as an information portal for the new device category. It will take a consumer-oriented look at devices that are mobile, targeted at the consumer and have Internet connectivity as one of the main features. The Google phone, the iPod touch, the Nokia Internet tablet, the Pepper Pad and even Internet media devices, Internet-connected digital cameras, car audio streaming solutions and portable Internet TV’s. In addition to that, Internet-capable smartphones (with VGA screens and above) will be covered. When we get hold of these mobile Internet devices, you’ll find the reviews on the Carrypad.com home page.
Nothing changes at UMPCPortal.com because I still believe that Ultra Mobile PC’s cover a wide and important range of PC-based devices from the smallest Raon Digital Everun to the ‘big’ Flybook V5 and in terms of customer, these are mostly separate from the mobile Internet device category.
Spanning the two sites across all device categories though will be the product database, the gallery and the forum. Undoubtedly there will be news items that span both sites too. If it all sounds too complex though, just track the new site via RSS by using this link. Its easier!
I’m looking forward to the emergence of the consumer-focused Internet device and hope you’ll join me for the start of this new and exciting product category. Long live the Carrypad!
Steve ‘Chippy’ Paine.
wow! so you finally entered into some kind of categorization.
So for what I see,
MID anything smaller than 7 inches without Windows.
UMPC anything smaller than 7 inches with Windows.
Touch Screen is not mandatory in any of those two categories.
am I right?
Hi Frank.
Its not really a technical split, more of a customer split. Business vs consumer but your categorisation above is probably the way its going to go! (assuming you mean desktop Windows!)
Steve.
Nice post. Thanks for sharing these tips.