As we’ve come to expect from CES, the giant consumer technology show hosted in Las Vegas each January, there was a huge surge of technology related news, specifically tons of almost real time information coming out every day from many different blogs. Its fun to step back and look at what kind of fluctuation this […]

Wow I never thought I’d see the day. One of my favorite websites, Woot.com, has the UX390 up for sale today! At a wonderful price too. The 390 from Woot will only run you $1,299 + $5 shipping. By comparison the UX390 direct from Sony was $2,349, and the best place you can buy it […]

If you enjoyed our last recommended touchscreen friendly game you’ll probably have fun with this one as well. The game is called Desktop Defense. Defense games should be immediately recognizable to anyone who has had much experience with an RTS (real time strategy game such as Starcraft) but anyone new to the genre can easily […]

After watching a video of the Mtube being demoed posted up at UMPCPortal I started to think a thought that you might find strange. I began to wonder if the Mtube UMPC was in fact, too small. While I haven’t actually been able to handle the thing in person I watched in pain as the […]

Engadget has posted some thoughts about OE 2.0 after trying it out hands on at Microsoft’s CES booth. While there weren’t very many specific reasons given it doesn’t sound like they were too impressed saying “it certainly wasn’t an experience“, and “probably the least fun we’ve had with OE in a long time”. They were […]

I never thought I’d see the day… I’ve been keeping my eye on DialKeys for a while and thought it was going to turn into vaporware, but finally there is a sequel to the on screen keyboard that shipped exclusively with certain UMPCs. DialKeys has released a beta version of its second on screen keyboard […]

While you might not agree with the definitions here at least someone is trying to set things straight. Engadget is reporting that Dan Monahan, Intel’s Global Internet Segment Manager of Ultra Mobility has laid out some bullets for them defining the two -
UMPC -

Business-class device for enterprise users
Runs a “heavy” OS like Vista
Optimized for office-use […]

Madness? THIS IS SPARTA! CES 2008! There were tons of new MID/UMPCs announced at CES and it can be quite hard to wrap your head around all the new devices and all of their specs. Luckily the table master over at UMPCPortal has your back. Head on over to UMPCPortal.com to check out up to […]

Its been a long an rocky road for the reference design of this device that we saw rebranded many times. Long though it may have been, the “The Everex / Packard Bell / FIC Nanobook / Cloudbook / CE26″ as Engadget calls it has arrived. I don’t have any issues waiting for a new piece […]

Its that time of the year again, CES 2008 is on in full effect and with it Intel has come to the show floor with many MID/UMPC prototypes but the terms are used interchangeably with no apparent trend. It would be nice if we could say that a UMPC is a small handheld device running […]