Archive for March, 2007



Origami on a UX

Shane Conder just posted an entry on his blog on installing Origami on his Sony Vaio UX390N. The bottom line is it works. It won’t install however without the patch to make Origami install on to other devices, as detailed by seamonkey420.

The HTC Shift (updated)

HTC (High Tech Computer), popular for their Windows Mobile Smartphones (re-branded by major carriers), has officially announced their first UMPC - the HTC Shift. It has a sliding keyboard, a 7-inch tilting screen, and cellular built in. Additional specs as reported by Engadget are as follows:

1.2GHz VIA CPU
Vista business running Aero
7-inch sliding, tiling wide-touchscreen
30GB […]

Interesting price drops and activity at SonyStyle.com

Over the passed two weeks or so, there has been some interesting activity regarding the UX UMPC over at SonyStyle.com. If you have been paying attention, you will have noticed that the UX280p and the VGN-UX280PK1 (UX280p+BT Keyboard bundle) are strangely absent from the site. If Sony runs out of stock from one of their […]

Refurbished Sony VAIO UX280p only $1,129

Sony is holding their “VAIO Outlet Quarterly Sales Event” in which they sell various refurbished products at reduced prices. While browsing through the laptop section of the sale, one would notice the UX280p (1.2GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, 40GB HDD) for the very attractive price of $1,129. The brand new product used to sell for […]

Samsung Q2

Details on the latest Q UMPC iteration have been revealed over at Engadget. The all new Vista running device sports the same 7″ display, but with an improved 1024 x 600 resolution. Familiar (to us UX users) a front (0.3mp) and rear (1.3mp) digital cameras, most likely designed for video chatting, another similarity to the […]

OQO Model 02 Shortages

It would appear as though the OQO Model 02 is having some major shortages. I’m not sure whether they didn’t make enough to meet the demand, or they mad a reasonable amount but the demand was so high that it wasn’t enough. Either way, if you order an OQO Model 02 from their site, you […]



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