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The average person can pick up a device like a Cingular 8525 / T-mobile MDA or whatever. With the exception of T-mobile, you have 3G internet. Yeah, the browsers suck, but the new opera is a huge improvement and these things are only going to get better. It also has a full keyboard. So I'm just not seeing the advantage of a UMPC. Ripoff prices, shitty battery life, and the guarantee of it being completely replaced the following year.

I'll stick with my smartphone / laptop combo please.]]>Apr 20th 2007 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/intels-2008-vs-2007-mobile-internet-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/intels-2008-vs-2007-mobile-internet-devices/Apr 20th 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/intels-2008-vs-2007-mobile-internet-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/intels-2008-vs-2007-mobile-internet-devices/
Anybody else get a really strong Sony VGN-UX50 vibe from these devices ?

These MIDs are much more appealing to me than the UMPCs have been thus far (though they are improving at a good clip as well). As for having your phone do everything, yeah...having been to Japan I've seen the future 'Kevin' is describing.

But me personally, I wouldn't want to watch a movie, listen to music, or surf the web on my phone (screens too small and I'd rather not run the battery down for frivolous stuff). So a tiny computer running a full blown desktop OS with the option of the integrated keyboard or a folding full size one, and a 5" - 7" VGA/SVGA+ display is pretty appealing to me.

The real question is whether or not there are enough people with similar tastes to allow such a device to break out of niche status...]]>Apr 20th 2007 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/intels-2008-vs-2007-mobile-internet-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/intels-2008-vs-2007-mobile-internet-devices/Apr 20th 2007 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/intels-2008-vs-2007-mobile-internet-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/intels-2008-vs-2007-mobile-internet-devices/The average person can pick up a device like a Cingular 8525 / T-mobile MDA or whatever. With the exception of T-mobile, you have 3G internet.
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I have a Cingular 8125 and the user experience pales in comparison to a laptop. Smartphones today are still too slow, low res, unresponsive, and lacking in applications.

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