We’ve got a ‘simulpost’ with Chippy’s [url=http://blog.carrypad.com]Carrypad blog[/url] for you this morning with news about the Mobits Bebos device.
As we reported on Saturday, Mobits appeared to have a few Origami-like deivces in development. Today we’ve had an email response direct from Mobits confirming that the Bobos device is an ‘Origami product’ and that there is a 7″ and interestingly a 5.6″ variant (pictured top).
Don’t get too excited just yet as these are products waiting for a customer to take them into tooling and production. Mobits, however, are saying that they expect ‘MP’ (Mass Production) in August which shows a certain level of confidence that this device is going to make it through to customers.
The MoBits company has (or is part of) another company called [url=http://www.mobitia.com/index.htm]Mobitia[/url] that has a website with more information on their prodcuts, a few other interesting devices and details about a common device chasis which has been developed.
Details on more MoBits devices below…Also shown is the Adam/Bart, Victor and Irene variants of an 8.4″ device which, might not be Origami but its so close as to be a direct competitor. These devices utilize Transmeta, Via or Intel processors (Interesting that transmeta is included.)
[img]http://origamiportal.com/origami/images/mobits2.jpg[/img]
Details can be seen of the carrying case, the handstrap, the stand and the cradle. Also given as options are camera, h/w codec card (I assume this means TV/Video codec) and fingerprint reader. There’s also an option for a 6-cell, 52w battery thats got double the power of Origami batteries. 6-hour life?
Another image is showing the Bebos 5.6 and two variants of a device called the Beacon. One is a 5.6″ variant and the other a 7″ variant. These two devices appear to have keyboards which will please a lot of people looking for that in their UMPC.
[img]http://origamiportal.com/origami/images/mobits1.jpg[/img]
If we get any more info, you can be sure we’ll post it here as soon as we get it.
