LG's HSDPA ultraportable runs Vista on Silverthorne

Yummy. After digging up LG's new HSDPA ultraportable on Intel's MID site, we just received the specs courtesy of our friends over at jkkmobile and UMPCPortal. Inside, we're looking at Vista running on Intel's Menlow chipset with a 1,024 x 600 touchscreen. We'll get you more on this soon.

[Via Jkkmobile]

[Itsuru @ Jan 7th 2008 2:51PM]

It's all well and good seeing so many MID's and UMPC's, this supposedly being the year of the UMPC after all. But until I'm assured that there is good enough reason to purchase one of these over a similarly priced laptop they're not really worthwhile.

[Steve Paine @ Jan 7th 2008 3:01PM]

"purchase one of these over a similarly priced laptop"

Its a different customer base altogether. Not really worth comparing a laptop against it. Think of it as a second PC. A 'real' PocketPC. Of course, pricing counts here so early customers will have to have a high value on their mobile computing activities.

S.

[PiZ @ Jan 7th 2008 2:58PM]

Nice device!!
Hope the price won't be too high...

[Alan Partridge @ Jan 7th 2008 6:11PM]

Dont hold your breath

[scott @ Apr 4th 2008 5:49PM]

I just gotta send you love for having a Dredg Icon.

[PiZ @ Apr 7th 2008 3:53AM]

@ scott

Thanks mate!! =)
I love Dredg.. can't wait for their new album to come out!

[Neeko @ Jan 7th 2008 4:57PM]

Make the battery last longer then 3 hours and give it touchscreen and youll have a sale. Until then keep it in the oven till its done.

[OneLove @ Jan 7th 2008 3:02PM]

lg woot?

[Itsuru @ Jan 7th 2008 3:10PM]

"Its a different customer base altogether. Not really worth comparing a laptop against it. Think of it as a second PC. A 'real' PocketPC. Of course, pricing counts here so early customers will have to have a high value on their mobile computing activities."

I would much rather stick to an 11-13" laptop personally, I think the pricing has been an issue for too long, if they focused on making lower end products rather than premium ones it might have a knock on effect and UMPC's might start selling well altogether.
More products like the eee pc perhaps.

[bob @ Jan 8th 2008 7:46AM]

you already have lower end products , they are called pda's.

[Jason Cox @ Jan 7th 2008 3:21PM]

The image is inaccurate, that's an pre-RTM build of Vista. I'm not sure of the build number but the Start button still has 'Start' on it and most of those Sidebar Gadgets didnt make it past Beta 2.

[MacroEQ @ Jan 7th 2008 3:34PM]

and will it be as cheap as the Asus Eee? I think not.

[Ratteler @ Jan 7th 2008 4:06PM]

Now it ran OSX86.... or Ubuntu, or even just XP, that would work.

[Jeff Lewis @ Jan 7th 2008 4:13PM]

I have a Samsung Q1U that uses the Steely A110 processor and it runs MacOSX86 10.4.8 JAS, Vista, XP and Linux. There's no reason for this not to as well. The problem with MacOS X is going to be touchscreen drivers, just as it is with the other UMPCs.

[Ed @ Jan 7th 2008 4:07PM]

And it will have an extra wide L key.

[aaron @ Jan 7th 2008 5:40PM]

You obviously don't own an OQO2 or you would never call it a brick. I use mine on a daily basis and even in casual attire it slips into my jeans pocket without a case just fine. The extended battery does add weight and bulk but the compromise is worth it for long trips. What other device is as small and can multitask Photoshop and MS Office while fitting in your pocket? The list is short. This LG device looks promising but they obviously borrowed a lot of styling from the OQO.

[AlphaAlien @ Jan 7th 2008 6:14PM]

The image is fake, if you notice it has the curved sidebar and gadgets only shown publicly at pdc 2005. It also has stacks in the background window a feature removed largely in rtm as well as the old purely black taskbar with no ball.

[Derek @ Jan 7th 2008 8:20PM]

This is fake

[Kenneth @ Jan 8th 2008 9:33PM]

I love mobile devices, but what I find really lacking is a middle point: Too many smaller mobiles are trying to give full computer experiences (HTC Shift trying to run Vista with a crippled WM6 on the side, not to mention everyone seems to want to run Vista for some reason), While the larger end of the mobile market doesn't have an OS more powerful than Windows Mobile to lean on to (HTC Advantage is a fantastic device crippled by the limitations of WM6). If manufacturers had an OS (Lets call it Windows Portable for now) that combined the relative simplicity of a handheld OS (there's a lot to learn from Linux based devices here) with a good compromise from the power of full blown PC OSs (I would love a sleek interface like vista and good mobile office and multimedia capabilities like those in a full OS like Vista but who needs advanced disk/network/user/hardware management on a pocketable device...) then I think we'd be seeing more innovative designs that aren't restricted by too little hardware trying to get too much software going (HTC Shift again), or fantastic hardware without the software to make use of it (HTC Advantage again). Not to mention the fact that it's time MS wakes up: a taskbar is great for organizing things on a larger screen, but on a small portable, such an element would only be any use if used for displaying current/background information as opposed to being used as a method of accessing the software/hardware.