UMPCs

Surprise! Details Of New OQO Model 03 UMPC Released

That’s odd, I could have sworn that a few months ago, we wrote that OQO was officially shutting down, and its new line of Windows-running mega-handhelds would be lost forever. Oh right, we did.

Sony Japan teases "VAIO New Ultra Mobile"

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sony_umpc-620x197.png" /> Remember Sony Japan's unusual <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/24/sony-japan-follows-sony-new-zealan

XpPhone is a giant phone that runs XP or a small computer that makes phone calls

The idea that this “phone” runs Windows XP is kind of a stretch, yet it’s being called the XpPhone. It’s pretty much a UMPC or MID, though, that happens to make phone calls bec

Video: OS X 10.5.7 runs on Sony UMPC like buttah

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/osxumpc.JPG">Not that OS X hasn't been loaded onto various non-Apple ultraportable machines already, but if you're looking for a pretty slick

New Samsung Q1 UMPC, the Q1EX

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/samsung3.jpg">Remember UMPCs? They’re like netbooks but smaller, less keyboard-y and more expensive? Samsung helped pave the way for th

Intel to release 32nm Atom chip (‘Medfield’) in 2010

‘Hybrid Dual Portable Computer’ gets Atom-ized

Back in March, you and I briefly chatted about the Hybrid Dual Portable Computer, or HDPC, from a company called MIU out of Korea. It appears that MIU has updated the once-chunky HDPC into a somewhat

ASUS R50a UMPC reviewed as good but expensive

Spanish site Hispazone has taken a gander at the ASUS R50a UMPC (careful, that link is in Spanish! – here’s the translated version) and found it to be a good step up from the R2H but still not the

Guy has had it up to here with UMPCs, builds his own

Fed up with the state of UMPCs? Remember UMPCs, even? Before netbooks, there were UMPCs – basically keyboard-less netbooks. Well one enterprising individual wanted a UMPC so badly that he cannibaliz

Girth-y extended battery for HTC Shift

HTC Shift owners (see our review here) who have a little extra coin and don’t mind adding some relatively substantial girth to their device may find solace in a $240 extended battery from Mugen. Pau

‘Everun Note’ AMD Turion-based UMPC to cost $879

Kohjinsha prepping 8.9-inch subnotebook

Kohjinsha drops another tiny notebook/netbook/subnotebook/UMPC into the pool today with the W130 series. I’ve used the term subnotebook in the title of this post because this little guy runs Windows

‘EVERUN NOTE’ is tiny, has a dual-core processor

Hey look at this little fella. It’s Raon Digital’s EVERUN NOTE. Don’t let the “EVER” part of “EVERUN” fool you, as the battery life tops out at about 2.5 hours but still, I’d buy it if

CrunchDeals: Nokia N810 for $299.99

It’s Friday, and that means payday for some people. Looking for something to buy? Howsabout this Nokia N810 Internet Tablet for just shy of $300 from CompUSA? The N810 has a slide-out QWERTY keyboar

Review: MSI Wind

For those of you looking for a reason NOT to buy the MSI Wind, I can’t really give you a good one. It’s a great little machine. Go ahead and buy one if you’ve been waiting. For everyone else, re

First Look: MSI Wind [UPDATED]

I’ve been using the MSI Wind and for a little while now and have checked out a handful of things that our readers have asked about. I’ll have a full review of the notebook itself coming up soon bu

New ‘Pepper Pad’ coming with Atom and Vista?

The Pepper Pad 3, apparently not to be confused with the already-available Pepper Pad 3, has been spotted by AVING. This new version of the…um…board-like, lap-based, net surfing apparatus will fea

‘Noahpad’ UMPC demo: Keyboard + trackpad combo

Here’s what appears to be a UMPC with a keyboard that doubles as a gigantic multi-touch trackpad. The screen folds all the way over, putting the device into a quasi-tablet mode as well. It’s calle

Digifriends modular MID coming to US ‘very soon’

Jenn over at Pocketables has some news about a mobile Internet device called the “Digifriends MID” that’s set to show up here in the US “very soon,” according to a company spokesperson. Whil

Hands-on with MSI Wind, looks pretty stellar so far

CNET’s UK office got a special hands-on with the forthcoming MSI Wind notebook and they like it so much that they said it “could take the throne from the Asus Eee PC as the best mini lapto
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