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 person demoing the unit attempted to navigate the tiny on screen buttons with a stylus.

The device is mostly free of hardware buttons, has a 1GHz VIA C7 CPU and a 2.8-inch touchscreen running at 640×480. While there are definitely devices that have screens just as small and have been successful products, I wonder whether or not such a small screen is even fit for use on a UMPC. It almost seems like it would limit much of the things you would be able to do on the hardware. Lets not forget that because this device is nearly button-less all of the navigation and interface must be done through the screen taking up even more of the screen real estate. They better have some amazing interface up their sleeves or I really can’t see this powerful (for its size) device being very useful.