Comments on: Q1 connectivity on the road: look Ma! no wires! http://gigaom.com/mobile/q1_connectivity/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/mobile/q1_connectivity/#comment-44483 Sat, 27 May 2006 08:17:11 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/05/26/q1_connectivity#comment-44483 Steve, ideally some type of integrated 3G data connectivity option would be nice for UMPCs; in fact, I would expect to see that in say, 2nd or 3rd gen. I don’t think having embedded 3G radios should be standard just yet. Not everyone wants them plus the radio could tie you to a cellular carrier that you don’t have a business relationship with. I see your point in the promo clip, but like most promos, they’re showing the full capabilities of the device. It can do what they show, but they’re not showing you how. ;) If you think about it, the UMPCs out of the box have the same connectivity options as 98% of the laptops on the market, which lives up to the UMPC acronym. Now if they called them ACUMPC (Always Connected UMPCs), then I would fully expect connectivity pretty much everywhere via some native option. Actually, I don’t like ACUMPC; I like your acronym much better. ;)

]]> By: Steven Snell http://gigaom.com/mobile/q1_connectivity/#comment-44484 Fri, 26 May 2006 22:16:43 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2006/05/26/q1_connectivity#comment-44484 Kevin, do you think that the UMPC’s should come with an EVDO card already installed? I mean UMPC stands for ‘Ultra Mobile PC’ but they’re not always connected. Maybe they should be called UMALAYHADSYCSCAUTDTWOMMOYC-PC (‘Ultra Mobile As Long As You Have Another Device So You Can Stay Connected And Use The Device The Way Our Marketing Makes Out You Can – PC’). Probably won’t catch on.

Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait to get one of these devices. But just watch the Microsoft promo clip (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/default.mspx) to see the guy on the subway/train using the UMPC to communicate with his friends. To me, that’s misleading.

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