Intel to show concept — “Donley”This time its the “Donley”, we’ve seen something very similar to this in the past . So the biggest question is “when is Intel moving to production?” We’ve seen many designs from Intel on the UMPC Portal and till date there has not been one that has moved on to production or has any confirmation of the launch date.

donley.jpg

The concept has a 5″ display, seems to be running vista with all communications built in and an improved design for mobility.

Intel to introduce 5-inch portable concept PC ‘Donley’ [AVING]

Other Updates

More at Only UMPC

UMPC Updates — March

April 6, 2007

The biggest news in march is the HTC Shift

A while ago, we thought it was only the HTC Athena or the Ameo or the Advantage that they were talking about — NO,  HTC has announced the “Shift” the UMPC that we’ve all been waiting for.

htc_shift.jpg

…the Shift (codename Shangri-La), is officially announced today. We don’t yet have hard details on release date or price, but we do know it should be available in Q3 (we’d estimate for under $2,000). As for features, we know not to expect anything out of the ordinary (except lots of 3G)…

The specs of the device are

  • VIA CPU (the one we tried had a 1.2GHz chip)
  • Vista business (yes, it was running Aero)
  • 7-inch sliding, tiling wide-touchscreen
  • 30GB drive
  • Tri-band UMTS / HSDPA, quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE
  • WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0
  • Biometric reader, front-facing camera

The design looks impressive, and the keyboard is very much the same as they have used it in their previous model. Hope the pricing will be as engadget puts it (under $2000) — that could mean $1999, but we’ll like it to be around a grand.

UMPC updates: Feb 2007

March 1, 2007

UMPC Updates: Jan 2007

February 1, 2007

UMPC updates: December

January 4, 2007