Tatung- another Windows Mobile slate
Steve at Carrypad picked up on a device that was displayed at Computex 2006 that everyone missed. The mystery device is from Tatung and looks like a UMPC with one major difference– it is running Windows Mobile. This Tatung handheld joins the HTC Athena in combining a larger device with the Windows Mobile OS, ostensibly to provide longer battery life and instant on capability. These devices remind me somewhat of the original Handheld PC (HPC), the forerunner to the Pocket PC. Those devices didn’t sell very well either because they were just too expensive for a stripped down OS.
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I thought Tatung only made rice cookers… :)
I really don’t see how these can realistically find a place in the market. The main reason for getting a bigger, UMPC like device is so that you can do more. Irrespective of screen size there is only so much you can do on a Windows Mobile device.
If the price differential is going to be small when compared with “official” UMPCs why would you go for one of these?