Monday, April 17, 2006
On Second Thought... UMPC Demos Fail for Microsoft, Intel, and Samsung
Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 02:00 PM
"Samsung Electronics, Intel and Microsoft have been promoting their joint project 'Origami' mini-laptop PC since they first showed it last month. In fact, the new PC proved to be too revolutionary, enough to baffle the three firms' executive officers who publicly tried to demonstrate how to use it."
Perhaps our Pocket PCs won't be obsolete so soon after all! ;) It appears that the first generation of Samsung UMPCs left quite an impression at a conference in Seoul, Korea last week; three separate devices failed demonstrations for the three different mega-corporate partners most highly involved with the UMPC effort. In short, one device went dead after a few minutes; another device would not respond to the on-screen keyboard commands during a PowerPoint presentation, leaving the audience staring at one slide for several minutes; the third device loaded up a PowerPoint presentation only to flip through all the slides in rapid succession within a few seconds.
Perhaps another manufacturer can do it better? In separate news, Averatec announced their entrance into this marketspace with their own UMPC-like device with a smaller 5" screen, better battery life, a built-in hardware keyboard, GPS, WiFi, and 3G data support all at a price range of between $600 to $1100. Thoughts?
Perhaps our Pocket PCs won't be obsolete so soon after all! ;) It appears that the first generation of Samsung UMPCs left quite an impression at a conference in Seoul, Korea last week; three separate devices failed demonstrations for the three different mega-corporate partners most highly involved with the UMPC effort. In short, one device went dead after a few minutes; another device would not respond to the on-screen keyboard commands during a PowerPoint presentation, leaving the audience staring at one slide for several minutes; the third device loaded up a PowerPoint presentation only to flip through all the slides in rapid succession within a few seconds.
Perhaps another manufacturer can do it better? In separate news, Averatec announced their entrance into this marketspace with their own UMPC-like device with a smaller 5" screen, better battery life, a built-in hardware keyboard, GPS, WiFi, and 3G data support all at a price range of between $600 to $1100. Thoughts?
