http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/ Engadget Comments for Origami and UMPC one and the same? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/
Doesn't that pretty much say it all?]]>Mar 2nd 2006 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200603/N06.0301.1632.46519.htm.

Let's hope it's all true.
Hummmmmmm]]>Mar 2nd 2006 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/]]>Mar 2nd 2006 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/One more gripe - stop calling it a "UMPC"! It is a handtop. The marketing droids are leading these companies around by their nose and if they don't realize who their initial target audience is they will fail. Look back at the first adopters of laptops and learn your lesson from that - gadget freaks and business executives will be the first adopters of these devices - not the general consumer.]]>Mar 2nd 2006 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/The Tablet PC never took off, the PDA market has been declining for the last few years (while the smartphone market has been steadily growing). The message is clear: people don't want to carry yet another device. Maybe a cell phone and an iPod (or any MP3 player), and even these two are merging (does S-E's Walkman ring a bell?). Business people carry a laptop because it's their basic working tool. This thing Origami, UMPC, Apple Super-Newton, whatever, will never replace a cell, a simple/light MP3 player or a laptop...]]>Mar 2nd 2006 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/
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29. ^^^ nice spam from the guy above ^^^

i really don't think microsoft would be buying their domain names from godaddy.

Posted at 11:12PM on Mar 1st 2006 by drunk 0 stars

IAWTC, + I don't think Intel would either. Come on people. -_-]]>Mar 2nd 2006 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/ It's funny...

I was actually looking forward to today for over a week, waiting to see if this device was something I should pick up. I'm currently going to Language school in Japan, and I've been using an old Mobilepro 790 as my Denshi Jisho (electronic dictionary). The screen is HIDEOUS (DSTN...blech...Zehi mienai...), I can't stand it anymore. But it runs the dictionary program I like best. I got a line on a better yet compatible device recently, but I wanted to see what this origami thing is going to turn out to be and how much it will cost before I drop my hard earned scrilla.

But this inane viral-marketing-bread-crumb-trail thing is pissing me off...

So I'm going for the other device. And it is...

A used INTERMEC 6651 (Sharp HC-7000)

It's got an 800X480 TFT screen w/ VGA out, MP3 and video playback, USB host (for Mice, KBs, HDDs), PCMCIA slot, CF Slot (so gps and wifi are good to roll), and while it is NOT pocketable it's dimensions are Width 5.5 in. Depth, 8.4 in. Height, 1.1 in., and it reverse-folds so it can be used as a tablet. It's also got an integrated camera with still image and video capabilities (with sound of course) and runs anywhere from 3 - 5 hours in continuous use and can last weeks on standby.

Sound familiar ?

Oh yeah, did I mention this thing is almost 6 years old ? As such it of course has drawbacks. Its CPU is an old 129mhz MIPS from Toshiba (performance roughly on par with or slightly below the venerable StrongARM 206mhz), though people can/do watch ripped movies on them full size ( ~700mb) there's hitching in action scenes unless you transcode down a bit, it's running perhaps the app-leanest breed of Wince -> HPC2000 (which sadly means I'll have to deal with Pocket IE 4.0 unless someone can point me to Netfront v3.0 somewhere),

And it doesn't have a scroll wheel :P

In 6 years technology has come a long way, so I would hope the origami would at least be able to do everything an old Intermec can do, and do it noticeably better. Delivering that kind of performance in the $350 range though...I'm a little skeptical about that though. The intermec cost $1300 new.

All in all, it's just as I said when they were about to release Episode 1..."For their sake it had better kick @$$...". I kinda get the feeling I will be almost as underwhelmed when Origami drops as I was by Ep1. But who knows...

Kind of ironic, Microsoft has already managed to lose at least one potential customer to...themselves basically. Even more ironic still, since I'm buying this thing second hand MS won't get a dime out of the transaction either.

But Microsoft has plenty of capitol to throw around for the present, else they wouldn't keep spawning money-black-holes like BOTH Xboxs (so far anyway), and possibly Origami as well.

Ultimately, I guess we'll just have to wait and see...]]>Mar 2nd 2006 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/
I think its funny that MS has to manufacture all of the viral/buzz marketing, complete with websites and teases to get hype going. All Apple has to do is send out a couple hundred invitations to an event, and the buzz creates itself.]]>Mar 2nd 2006 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.origamiportal.com and it does seem logical that Intel and Msoft would be together in this.]]>Mar 2nd 2006 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=ORIGAMIPROJECT.com&prog_id=godaddy

To see domain info....]]>Mar 2nd 2006 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/
I don't see what the point of your post is. Was there ever any doubt that origamiproject.com wasn't a Microsoft website? If you're trying to show the domain was registered at godaddy.com, you're wrong. It wasn't. You're just whois-ing the domain from their website.]]>Mar 2nd 2006 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 2nd 2006 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/
Right now the cheapest alternative in this category would be something like the Fujitsu P1510 which is over $1,500 when reasonably decked out.

If they can offer something with decent battery life and respectable performance (good enough to play videos, the most demanding thing you'd do on it) and at $500 then it's a winner in my book.

]]>Mar 2nd 2006 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/
640*360 is less than my ipaq hx4700 has (640*480) and it is not enough to comfortably browse internet and view office documents. I really how this thing has got better&bigger display. WXGA?]]>Mar 2nd 2006 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://gkrawiec.blogspot.com/2006/03/origami-is-flispstart-pc.html]]>Mar 2nd 2006 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/
I think this is a good initiative from MS bridging the divide between PDA, Tablet PC and Laptop. Yes we don't want to carry any extra device, but this Origami device will sell if the price is kept at most $500.00

Here is my argument, I am at loss at moment which device to choose, SmartPhone is ultra-mobile, but you can't really enjoy movies on it, PDA is too small to make it a semi-business device, surfing, reading and email on it is limited. A tablet pc is a price overkill and too obtrusive like a laptop. Taking notes on a laptop in a meeting is sometime considered too obtusive.

So here comes Origami, it unifies all. A 7 inch (??) widescreen on which you can enjoy your multimedia, anywhere! Surfing and reading on it is more pleasurable. Hopefully the battery will last long enough to support this experience.

So as for me, when this device arrives, out goes my laptop and my PDA. I will take the version of this device without the GSM. I will have a smartphone for phone, and Origami for other mobile activities.

Way to go Microsoft, just forget these whiners.]]>Mar 3rd 2006 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/Mar 3rd 2006 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/origami-and-umpc-one-and-the-same/
Yeah, right...]]>Mar 8th 2006 3:42AM