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Oh wait, Windows 7 isn't out yet so what's the point of any portable tablet? Huh?!?

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2008/10/28/windows-7-tablet-pc-screen-shots/

So sexy.]]>Nov 4th 2008 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/
Here you go...
http://store.shopfujitsu.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buildseriesbean.do?series=T2010]]>Nov 4th 2008 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/
Actually, an old P1610 would probably still be faster than the U820, and have slightly better battery life than the P1620. (Not sure about the P1630, it has a die shrunk CPU and a different chipset...)]]>Nov 4th 2008 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/fingerprint scanner
extending antena
how cool is that ?]]>Nov 4th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/
I'm hoping they'll release a dock with HDMI - that's more or less my last quibble with this device, especially now that it has GPS.]]>Nov 4th 2008 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/
But you know all about the market, right? I'll call fujitsu at once to tell them an internet expert has said they're no longer wanted.]]>Nov 4th 2008 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/
The point of my post was that a 5.6' screen is never going to be as popular as a 8.9 or 10' screen. The screen is entirely to small. Compared to what they could actually produce and sell faster then ASUS or MSI.]]>Nov 4th 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/
Seriously, chill out. 1 man vs. a big company like Fujitsu.....

They've probably already tapped the market to see if something like this is wanted.]]>Nov 4th 2008 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/And Vista.


I don't think so.]]>Nov 4th 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/
I think that I stifled a laugh when I read Intel Atom Z530 and 4200RPM drive for the umpc.]]>Nov 4th 2008 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Let me know when they have a version with:

Vendor supported Ubuntu-UMPC
SSD
HSPA modem

Then I'll buy it.]]>Nov 4th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/
I think I'd most likely buy anyhow if I saw one in person -- that I'm not likely to is probably a good thing.]]>Nov 5th 2008 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Excellent for the college kid, easy to carry around and use in between classes.
But anything CPU heavy is going to cut into your battery life.
Aero is no exception, Windows 7 or Vista...]]>Nov 4th 2008 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/ I just picked up a refurbed u810 model for ~$500. It's the device I've been waiting for since I was a wee child watching Inspector Gadget's niece Penny and her oh so ahead of it's time computer book (Wow! There was a time when a girl could hold a gadget and I was more interested in the gadget than the girl...a time before engadget, gizmodo, and i4u ruined my mind...).

The u820 will probably drive the price down even more, as have netbooks in general. The price of a Fujitsu P1120 sure took a nosedive after the eee debuted. Don't know what I'll do with my P1120 now that I have new ultra portable (they only sell for about $150 now so I might as well keep it). Maybe I'll finally get around to setting up a linux laptop...

But for all those who don't understand the u series, you really need to put one side by side with an eee or an aspire one to appreciate the size difference. The ee and it's variants, as small as they are, are still a little too big for comfortable all day carry during traveling as far as I'm concerned. But the u's might juest make it. Add to that the fact that the u810 at least comes with a 5200mah battery standard, so you get about 5hrs run time out of the box (and that's with an old A110).

I'm sure this new Atom based variant will have more omph, but before I purchased my A110 based unit I made sure to test out one in store. I played a fairly densely encoded divx rip (a 2 hour movie at about 1.2GB), it played fine. And that was on a system with VISTA installed on it. I've already downloaded all appropriate XP drivers from Fujitsus webpage, and the model I purchased has XP tablet anyway, so I think it will have enough processing power for the minimal needs this device needs to serve.

As for the main gripes people have against these models, tiny screen and proportionally tiny KB...I'm 28 (good eyes) , half asian (relatively slender fingers), and I can't touch type anyway (and on this devices keyboard neither can anyone else). It's not a device suited to everyone, but hey...it works for me...]]>Nov 4th 2008 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/ @Al

Ebay o'course :). But at that I got a pretty good deal. Most have been going for about $550 and up...some as high as $750 (not much more than that though as the buy-it-nows start at about $800).

If you like a bit more of a sure thing I was a hairs breadth away from pulling the trigger on this...

http://www.cedarpc.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=1035]]>Nov 5th 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 5th 2008 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/
They really can serve a purpose, you just have to decide for yourself if you have that purpose, and if it's worth the money. I bought mine before the eeepc matured, so the decision was easy if I wanted something easy to carry for the above reasons. Several people have also used the U810 as in-car computers/media players since there's a proper car dock for it, and for that sort of solution, it's almost cheap :)]]>Nov 4th 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/
- Fugly as sin!
- Screen too small
- HDD too small and too slow

Kudos on the inclusion of fingerprint reader and GPS though.

But $999? Seriously? In a straight conversion that's £622 and considering I can buy a HP TX2530 for £599 they must be joking!]]>Nov 4th 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 5th 2008 3:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/The size is great and they're really solid build.
The U810 was all over Tokyo and I kept drooling. Too bad they were quite expensive.
The screen is especially amazing. 5.6" 1280x800, take that eeePC 7" 800x480]]>Nov 4th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/Nov 4th 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/fujitsus-lifebook-u820-mini-tablet-now-on-sale/
My biggest complaints on the U810 that the U820 doesn't address:

1) lacks the 1024x768 resolution that most programs are expecting to have as minmum resolution. But I guess all the netbook miss that mark.
2) Second it only has VGA out. This is a pain to use with KVI switches that want to have a DVI/HMDI out.
3)No backlit keyboard and the led lights for the keyboard suck.
4) Scroll wheel - this needs a scroll wheel. The up down button are in a bad place and browsing websites is greatly hampared.
5) Processing. This needs a dual atom. If I understand the atom isn't must faster than the U810 CPU
6) Memory - geez 1gb - please this should be 2gb for the premium.
7) 3g - need 3g that supports GSM or CDMA. OR have an express slot instead of CF for using a WImax card
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