agopc intros ago7 UMPC rebadge

by Paul Miller, posted Oct 20th 2006 at 4:50PM

TabletKiosk eo rebadges are nothing new, but the new ago7 from agopc, replete with cutesy multi-color logo, seems to be a notably weak effort. Not like they lopped off any features or anything, the ago7 sports a 1GHz VIA C7M processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, 40GB HDD, 800 x 480 7-inch display (with options for 800 x 600 and 1024 x 600), WiFi, Bluetooth and the rest. But at a flat $800, with no noticeable improvements on its rebadge buddies, we're not seeing much of a reason to jump on board, especially with next-gen UMPCs just around the corner. As a gesture to the WWAN set, agopc includes vague instructions for using your phone as a modem over Bluetooth, which start by instructing you to uninstall a pre-installed program on the ago7 -- sure looks like the put a lot of thought into that one.

[Via Geekzone]

Filed under: Handhelds, Tablet PCs

Tags: ago7, agopc, rebadge, tabletkiosk eo, TabletkioskEo, umpc

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Jake @ Oct 20th 2006 4:59PM

Is this thing supposed to be retro-cheap-cheesey looking? Is that trendy now or something? this thing is hideous. The photo makes it look like it's that really awful looking beige color that used to be the required color of PC boxes and big huge CRT monitors. Is it really that color? yuck.

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Fraser Drew @ Oct 20th 2006 5:55PM

Has anyone yet found a use for these? I can't think of anyhting except a portable media player.... but it's too expensive for that, adn too short a battery life.
So any ideas people??

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Oddmanout @ Oct 20th 2006 9:24PM

"So any ideas people??"

Well, sort of...

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/29/meet-the-second-generation-of-umpcs-shoulda-been-first/

The uses were there...really. The initial UMPCs were just even more ill suited for most of them than either tablet PCs or conventional laptops.

But in other news, I just noticed the OQO 01+ is down to $1200. Why was I not informed ?

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Linda @ Oct 21st 2006 6:57PM

All of these hand help PCs require a Powerful user interface such as FrogPad.

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