Ultra-mobile PC: Rounding up the usual suspects
31 May 2007I am down to considering the following four UMPCs. Right now I am leaning towards Samsung Q1 ultra which has decent battery life, decent processor (Staley A100), and large-enough harddisk. I was initially excited about Fujitsu, but the 20 GB harddisk is a real drawback.
- Pros: weighs only 580 grams, 8 hours of battery life (real usage would be 5-6 hours), bigger keyboard (14-mm key pitch and 1.3mm keystroke), Made in Japan
- Cons: Only 20GB disk, No builtin bluetooth, No IR (Can’t connect my Polar F55)
- Reviews: Reghardware
- Pros: 7″ screen, 20-80 GB Hard drive, Builtin GPS, reasonably priced ($900-$1200)
Cons: Short battery life (2-4 hours), Celeron processor
Review: Josh Bancroft, Gottabemobile-1, Gottabemobile-2, Gottabemobile-3
- Pros: 7″ screen, 60-80 GB HDD, reasonably priced ($800-$1200), decent battery life (3-6.5 hours)
- Cons: thumb-type split keyboard
- Reviews: Walt Mossberg, Gottabemobile, Wired blogs,
- Pros: Active digitizer
- Cons: Via processor, Expensive ($1700-$2500)
- Reviews: Gadgeteer, Mobility today, Gottabemobile, PC maganize, Laptop magazine, Cnet
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2 Responses to “Ultra-mobile PC: Rounding up the usual suspects”
June 1st, 2007 at 8:48 am
The Medion UMPC is worth a look.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:58 am
Thanks griz, will take a look at Medion