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Hector Gomez is a longtime reader who Kevin and I had the pleasure of meeting early this year. He may be the only person who buys more gadgets than I do, and a recent purchase he made was the Viliv S5 UMPC. I have made… Read More »

The folks at Crave got a few hours to play with the upcoming ARCHOS 9 UMPC recently. The ARCHOS 9 is a slate UMPC with a 9-inch screen that will be the first UMPC type device released with Windows 7 under the hood. The Crave… Read More »

 
 

We first heard about the unique hybrid Touch Book from Always Innovating back in March, and as always with unique new concepts, we wondered if it would really see the light of day. We are happy to see that the Touch Book is in production and… Read More »

UMPC Portal notes something that I’ve been watching for months. The trend for searches using the term UMPC is in vast decline. As a mobile technology community, this can’t be surprising to any regular readers. As much I as enjoyed the three UMPCs… Read More »

The Viliv X70 UMPC is nice in its own right, but it gets even nicer when special deals give buyers a bunch of free stuff. The folks at Dynamism have let us know that they are getting 777 X70 devices soon and they are going to… Read More »

This week has raced to a close as fast as can be, which means it’s time for another heart-to-heart about how the week was spent. It seemed to speed by at a dizzying pace, no doubt due to a new phone and updates to an… Read More »

The folks at Dynamism have updated the Viliv S5 options they will be offering for sale, and there are now prices for each model listed. The most interesting piece of news is the addition of a model with integrated 3G and a relatively huge… Read More »

The need for a good portable keyboard is one thing we hear a lot here due to our coverage of UMPCs and other slate devices. Use of a slate usually means that at some point a portable keyboard is needed in order to do… Read More »

http://www.youtube.com/v/6cTfXgbuenk&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 ARCHOS decided to resurrect the slate UMPC market yesterday with the announcement of its 9pctablet. Essentially, the device offers the guts of a netbook running Windows 7 in a resistive touchscreen tablet. Many have tried this type of device, but from a mainstream perspective,… Read More »

It is Friday, the day when we get to chat about what happened at Mobile Tech Manor over the past week. It was the week of the Palm Pre, I still had UMPCs scattered everywhere and I finally got into the Google Voice beta program.… Read More »

We already knew that today was the day for an ARCHOS announcement. What we didn’t know for sure was what exactly the company had up its sleeve. I figured it would be an Android-powered MID with voice capabilities, but a quick peek at the… Read More »

It hurt the whole mobile community to hear the woes of OQO. Last month, the company that helped define the early UMPC and MID markets closed up shop due to financial challenges. As sad as someone’s bad times are, certain folks can find a… Read More »

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My coverage of the Viliv X70 and S5 UMPCs has been very popular and I am getting asked by a lot of people how the two devices compare during use. This is not an easy question to answer, however, as even though they are comparably… Read More »

Since I started covering the loaner Viliv X70EX UMPC that was sent by the folks at Viliv, I have been asked repeatedly how much this device is going to cost in the U.S. I just heard from Dynamism that it is going to carry the… Read More »

http://www.youtube.com/v/3viE_mm9vnE&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01 I’m a little tongue-in-cheek with my post title, but watching the video of Kinpo’s Android tablet raises a good question about UMPCs in general. Why shoehorn a desktop operating system onto a mobile device? Obvious answers to that question mainly involve applications: support, availability,… Read More »

I have been testing the integrated 3G capability of both the Viliv S5 3G and the X70EX 3G UMPCs and can report they both work as expected. I was able to pull the AT&T SIM out of the iPhone 3G and pop it into each UMPC… Read More »

http://www.youtube.com/v/2M6_A6z8-N0&rel=0&border=1&color1=0xe8e8e8&color2=0xe8e8e8&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 Here’s a concept we’ve bandied around ourselves from time to time: a notebook device with a modular screen that becomes a handheld. The Institute for Information Industry, or III, is showing off just such a concept at Computex. The base system is an HP… Read More »

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