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Samsung eyes enterprises in UMPC strategy

Samsung has some long range plans to gain a foothold in the U.S. notebook market and key to those plans appear to be tiny footsteps with the itty-bitty Q1 UMPC. Baseline … Read More »

Revenge of Nintendo

Nintendo just boosted their profit estimates for the coming year by $150 million from over half a billion dollars, indicating that the company might be one of the unlikely winners in the console wars. I would have laughed at that thought even a year ago, … Read More »

 
 

Three Books This Summer

Summer is time to read, especially those pot boilers or romance novels that make perfect companions for your mid-year break. Those of us who are stuck working, I would like to recommend three books, that might not make up for suntan, but will teach you a … Read More »

The German MySpace: Lokalisten

MySpace plans to launch a site in Germany this summer, looking to move into one of the biggest Internet markets in Europe. But the company will face local entrenched players when it arrives. German users say that Lokalisten holds the title of … Read More »

Hugo’s eo vs. Q1 video comparison

Hugo does it again with another great, no make that two great videos! In a two-part series, Hugo Ortega compares the TabletKiosk eo with the Samsung Q1. This is probably the … Read More »

iRiver UMPC/ Tablet PC coming?

Dapreview is teasing us with a rumor of a new handheld from iRiver that supposedly will have these features: smaller than W10 Tablet PC or UMPC DMB and GPS maybe a camera Macromedia Flash player 8 Wibro support This … Read More »

Apple to patent touchscreens with hover

Apple files patents like they sell iPods– a lot.  The latest one to come to light is potentially the most useful.  The filing implies this would be used in some sort of iPod with a touchscreen and listen to this: It describes a touch-screen interface for portable … Read More »

Moto, Chasing Nokia

This was a big week for wireless earnings and market figures, with Motorola grabbing the spotlight from Nokia in the ongoing battle between the two dominating global cell phone makers. Motorola, still milking the success of the Razr, gained significant market share in its attempts to … Read More »

Skype, All Talk, Just Not Facts

Every quarter, one hopes EBay will provide some clarity on Skype, and what kind of success the company is having with its $2.6 billion purchase. And every quarter, one is left scratching his head, pondering over meaningless metrics. It is baffling because eBay calls it third … Read More »

Chip Tussles for iPod

Apple’s iPod is not only the hottest consumer electronics device, but it is also one of the hottest chip design wins in the business, so much so, it can make or break companies. Portal Player went to the public markets on the strength of its partnership … Read More »

Linux on a Samsung Q1 UMPC- sort of

On the current MobileTechRoundup podcast Kevin, Matt and I discussed the possibility of installing Linux on a Samsung Q1 UMPC.  We pointed out that while it is possible there are a lot of things you give up that are not available on a PC … Read More »

I’ve meant to mention this for some time, but it kept slipping my mind; even though I’m far from 50 like the father of the Tabletscape, I do have occasional memory leaks. ;) For some Samsung Q1 owners this will be old news, but … Read More »

More Must Reads

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and Nortel’s Mike Zafirovski are an interesting pair. They’re both tasked with revitalizing companies and bringing innovation to their institutions and have faced significant hurdles in recent months. The companies are holding a joint press conference to announce a partnership … Read More »

While I doubt it will rival the "History of the World" audience that Mel Brooks enjoyed, you can catch a history of the UMPC with Otto Berkes over on YouTube. What’s most surprising to me is that I expected Otto to be ultra-small, like … Read More »

MVP Craig Pringle has recently started using a Motion LS800 Tablet PC with a native resolution of 800×600 and is writing a series of articles explaining how to make the best use of the reduced resolution of the LS800.  Part 1 gives detailed instructions for … Read More »

Good news for fans of the TabletKiosk eo UMPC: the system restore appears to use a single disc and can be done in about 20 minutes! Hugo … Read More »

Now that Wired News, and Wired.com are back in the CondeNest, one can expect them to go on a rapid expansion spree. You know those eyeballs can bring in some serious dollars. So here is a quick poll for you to make your bets. Read More »

Tablet PC 2 has done it again with an in-depth look at the Samsung Q1 UMPC.  Linda Epstein explains in great detail the benefits of the UMPC and tells us why a keyboard is overrated on mobile PCs.  The review covers the Q1 from top … Read More »

Wow, I mentioned there’s an IE 7 feature that’s a must-have for my Samsung Q1 and you folks really started taking some guesses. Actually, all of the features you mention are pretty usable too, but the one I had in mind is fairly basic. … Read More »

With every teenager sporting a cell phone these days, the college dorm phone is quickly being relegated to the closet. Rave Wireless, a New York city-based startup that makes mobile software, saw this coming, and has started creating applications for cell phones that … Read More »

Chalk another on the board for the MVNO fallout. EasyMobile, the mobile service created by the crew behind Europe’s bright-orange “Easy” brand–EasyJet, EasyPizza, EasyMoney– is closing its service in the Netherlands after just 9 months. Well, as they say–easy come, … Read More »

Akihabara started up HD videos in 720p earlier this year and the latest installment features the Q1.  Unique to the overseas version of this UMPC is the integrated digital TV tuner, … Read More »

Carrypad UMPC Journal spotted a pic of the new Samsung Q1 extended battery and if I didn’t already have a universal external battery, I’d strongly consider this product. For around $165, the Samsung battery adds around 5.5 hours of juice as well as a little … Read More »

The big news of the day seemingly is eBay banning Google Checkout. Should that be a surprise? Not really – because that’s what competitors do. A sign of worry? Of course! But the real big news, is the big shake-ups going on in EBay’s management … Read More »

A mysterious bug is affecting websites hosted by Verio, awholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s NTT. It has become a recurring problem for nearly 48 hours, and as a consequence, Internet users accessing the Net using British Telecom’s ADSL offering and some that connect … Read More »

Like Earthlink’s WiFi phone plans, the city of Taipei, in Taiwan, is pushing dual WiFi, cellular phones as a way to offer lower-priced phone calls over its municipal wireless network. The initiative is being called “Taipei Easy Call,” and is backed by … Read More »

In an attempt to better convince all those digruntled phone company customers to sign up with Earthlink, the company plans to open an old fashioned brick and mortar retail outlet later this week in downtown San Francisco. The store, which will likely open Thursday or Friday … Read More »

Just a quick blurb since many folks have shown interest in the Asus UMPC entry: the R2H. According to OnlyUMPC, the Asus Origami device has cleared FCC testing in preparation … Read More »

Its been a little over three weeks since the plans of my little start-up project leaked out. Since then I have spent a nice ten odd days in London, reporting a story for Business 2.0, learnt how to make a Google Map Mash-Up, read … Read More »

Infinera might not be the first optical IPO after all. It might be pipped to the post by Optium Corporation, a Chalfont, PA-based companies that makes a variety of optical components and other transmission modules. Morgan Stanley and CSFB are running the book. Jeffries … Read More »

North Carolina daily, The Pilot, is going to offer free WiFi from its offices, and will eventually offer pay services in the Moore County and surrounding markets where it sells the paper. There is going to be WiMAX involved. Good idea? Jeff Jarvis doesn’t … Read More »

Hugo Ortega recently visited the National Australia Bank (must have been short of cash) and attended the TechExpo.  He has published a cool video of the event where they had a lot of mobile gadgets on display along with a UMPC.  It is great to … Read More »

Matt Miller, aka palmsolo, has been using a Samsung Q1 for over a month and is loving his Origami/ UMPC!  Matt has chosen to leave the laptop at home and taken the Q1 on some business trips and he is blogging about the experience on the … Read More »

Over past few weeks, many new location based services (LBS) that leverage the WiFi networks have come to the forefront, and many of them have exciting enough offerings to give mobile phone networks-based LBS a run for their money – not that it would take … Read More »

Over at the Origami Project, one of the forum readers replied to one of my posts with some interesting info for those down under (Hugo & Craig: this means you mates!). Jonathan brings news of a new UMPC device called the … Read More »

Our friend Uli Suratos is back with more information about using the Samsung Q1 and this time he’s using GPS with Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006.  The GPS receiver is a CF receiver from Haicom, finally showing Kevin what you can do with … Read More »

Yesterday’s post about another happy Q1 owner unintentionally solicited comments from many other happy Q1 owners, which I love to see. Now that I’ve had the device for five weeks and have relatively sung the praises, I have to do the fair thing and … Read More »

I am a mobile type of guy and when I use an ultra-portable device I really use it, often for hours at a time.  I may use it held in my hands or I might use it with an external keyboard and mouse, whatever fits what … Read More »

So UMPCs have been out and about for around two months and now you’re curious. One of the most often questions I hear about them is: what it’s like to work in XP on an 800×480 screen? Well, back in March, Hugo Ortega demonstrated … Read More »

We met Joey at the MobileTechRoundup meet up last week and while we’re not claiming any mobile device influence, Joey just informed me that he nabbed a Samsung Q1. From my initial impressions, Joey is definitely in the power user class: last week he showed … Read More »

One of the oldest games is now available for your UMPC or Tablet PC and I have to tell you, it’s addicting! jkOTR reader and blogger in his own right, Frank (aka: CTitanic), developed this game specifically for the UMPC-sized screens and it fully supports … Read More »

Life without Sammy was difficult, but I made it through the rough patch in our relationship no worse for wear. The Samsung Q1 system restore went just fine although I learned a thing or … Read More »

Mark Polino has decided to name his Samsung Q1 UMPC “Binky” and has just received the Samsung PowerBank, an external extended battery pack for the Q1.  The PowerBank does not attach like a normal extended battery, rather it is a separate battery pack like the … Read More »

South Korean companies have a pretty interesting plan to turn their version of (mobile) WiMAX aka WiBro into a global standard: go after some of the fastest growing emerging markets, and get the necessary scale to compete with rivals, mostly from the US. A few … Read More »

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