UPOP "PMP" treads dangerously close to UMPC territory
By Donald Melanson 
posted Dec 11th 2007 12:39PM
posted Dec 11th 2007 12:39PM
We've already seen some so-called PMPs that are seemingly secretly longing to be a UMPC, but none have tread quite so closely as UPOP's latest device, which likely won't let you ditch you laptop altogether but should get the job done in a pinch. Helping it in that respect is the unit's combination touchscreen (4.8-inch) and full QWERTY keyboard, along with your choice of 30GB or 60GB hard drives, built-in WiFi, a DMB TV tuner, and an SD card slot for expansion, not to mention Windows CE 5.0 Professional for an OS. Unfortunately, there's no word on what it'll cost, and we have sneaking suspicion that it won't be making its way over here anytime soon, but those looking to blur device boundaries could certainly do worse than seeking one of these out.
[Via PMP Today]
[Via PMP Today]
I love this stuff and wanted to get one right now. Send me the price of it and hope to buy one before Xmas.
That UI reminds me of the GPS story Mr. Ricker just posted at http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/11/trigems-el-breaks-into-gps-with-style/
If it has a decent word processor, I'm interested.
Seems like it has Microsoft Office.. i can see that Office logo in the picture..
With more than decent battery life, it's all the tech you'll ever need.
Looks pretty cool. How much? is the real question.
Yes, very much so.
they should add a basic cellphone capability to this.
reminds me of the imate 9502 (if it were to actually exist that is)
Wow, this is very cool. This is what we need in the US cellphone/UMPC market, not some recycled side-sliding keyboard design like what HTC has been trotting out for the last 3 years.
No.
I would not buy it.
Things like this that try to do several things rarely get any of them done well.
More like an iRiver e-Dic and SideKick combo more than a strict copying of one.
Treads dangerously close to a TMOBILE lawsuit.
Sorry, reply above meant for you.
nothing like any t-mobile phone,
aside from the iphone available from tmobile in germany im sure non of the other phones being offered by the same carrier have any touch screen capabilites
You can pretty much do the same thing with the Cowon Q5W. It has Windows CE 5.0 running on it. Add in bluetooth keyboard and mouse and you are all set. It's got 40GB/60GB hard drive plus WiFi and Bluetooth.
What's not to like.
Toting around a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Especially if they stick out of your backpack. It's rather humiliating.
This article is confusing on several points.
First of all, how is this not a UMPC? Windows OS, touchscreen/QWERTY, tuner, 60 gig drive w/expansion slot...I don't think it's "treading close" to anything...sounds like a UPMC to me.
And since when is a UMPC, any UMPC, about "ditching a laptop altogether?" If you write for a living, there's no thumbpad qwerty that can take the place of a proper keyboard.
UMPC market is tough. Marketing department being creative.
i wouldn't say any laptop under 17" has "a proper keyboard" if you write for a living you probably arent using a standard laptop keyboard.
UMPC runs actual Windows. Full XP or Vista. This doesn't. That's the main differentiator.
Looks like a sweet little device. I wouldn't say no if the price was right.
for some reason this really interests me. i hope it comes to the states for under $500
this is way too much fun packed into one device.
perfect. why can't the states come out with something like this?
Cowon Q5.
605wifi?
oh well, that's France
any way if this thing stays colose to PMP prices it's looking good
Nokia n810.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/17/nokia-n810-gets-official/
Looks amazingly like the picture in a Nokia patent application. But, since Nokia doesn't appear to be defending that patent against the AT&T Tilt, I doubt they'll defend it against this either.
What resolution? Does it have a digital audio out?
I'm pretty sure the screen is photoshopped. That looks like a Windows XP theme (which, unless things have REALLY changed, the CE version of Windows can't use) and the icons for Office 2007 also raise my photoshopped-o-meter.
But will it play Crysis?
I'm tired of stuff not making it over here...I need a overseas hook up
A port of desktop IE to Windows CE is nothing new. There have been ports of desktop IE to Windows CE since CE version 2.12 in 1999 (IE 4.01) and Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows CE first started shipping with Windows CE 4.2 back in 2003 along with a few minor updates in CE 5.0 and 6.0. It actually shipped with 3 different OS versions...
I never understood why MS kept hacking at their Pocket IE browser and just did not give up on it years ago and use the desktop based IE CE (with modifications) 3 or more years ago...
The truth is, IE 6.0 could have shipped with the original edition of Pocket PC 2003 if MS wanted it to. Why they never even talked about it in relation to Windows Mobile until now is beyond me. Maybe they thought the hardware was not yet up to par at that point or it could not render for small screens well enough... Who really knows? But in my view, its rather telling that they dropped support for the Pocket IE engine in embedded versions of WinCE completely with version 6.0.
I dunno. This article isn't too clear which desktop version of IE it is they are talking about porting, though. Maybe they are working on porting IE7 afterall... If so, if would be nice to have an update for embedded use and I'd hope they would also make it availabe to their embedded versions of Windows CE in the future if they did port it. (Or maybe it would not be so nice considering how badly it performs on some laptops...)