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Performance Capped
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Intel's vision of futu...
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Looks Count.
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OQO Model 01+ v/s 02
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Handtops as consumer el...
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HTC Shift - the Model T...
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Shipping delays
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OQO Model 01+ enough?
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My trusty friend
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Define and Copyright Ha...
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UMPC, Handtop or micro ...
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Do we need a new Psion?
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Perfect costs too much
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Design Your Own
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Flipstart must succeed.
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Performance Capped
Tags: CPU's, Handtop, UMPC
The dust is settling, and the horizon is again in view, but the short term outlook is not as pretty as might have been expected some six months ago. I (Click here to read the rest)
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Intel's vision of future UMPC's
Tags: Intel, UMPC
This is a really interesting, and timely addition to the "Handtops as a Consumer Electronic Device" idea. link (Click here to read the rest)
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Looks Count.
Tags: Handtops, OQO, Flipstart
Looks really do count! The OQO Model 01/01+ and the Flipstart are two of the best examples of what really works, and what really does not.

No Flips (Click here to read the rest)
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OQO Model 01+ v/s 02
Tags: OQO
Much has been made of the relative performance of the VIA C7M CPU v/s the Intel Pentium M/Core Solo CPU's, based on various benchmarks. I am not at a (Click here to read the rest)
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Handtops as consumer electronics.
Tags: Handtops
Due to the enthusiast nature of this forum, and the obviously high level of technical know-how of the individual members, we all sometimes miss the po (Click here to read the rest)
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HTC Shift - the Model T?
Tags: UMPC, Handtops
Every market needs a “Model T Ford” to impart momentum and propel it to critical mass. This is rarely the invention that started the whole thing of, b (Click here to read the rest)
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Shipping delays
Tags: General
Shipping delays – the bane of the computer industry.

As a software developer, I know all about shipping delays, and the almost super human effort t (Click here to read the rest)
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OQO Model 01+ enough?
Tags: Handtops, performance
I am happy with my OQO Model 01+. I had to live without it for a while just recently, and it brought home to me how good the unit really is.

Make n (Click here to read the rest)
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My trusty friend
Tags: OQO
I have been dazzled, bewitched and also somewhat bewildered this last little while by the goings on in the Handtop arena.

It all started when I had (Click here to read the rest)
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Define and Copyright Handtop?
Tags: Handtop
The whole UMPC/Handtop/sub-notebook issue, what is what, and what do the terms mean, and all the fights about Trade marks and names led me to run a cu (Click here to read the rest)
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UMPC, Handtop or micro sub-notebook?
Tags: UMPC, Handtop, sub-notebook
When is a hand top computer a Handtop, when is it a UMPC, and when is it a micro sub-notebook?

The definition that follows of the UMPC is from vari (Click here to read the rest)
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Do we need a new Psion?
Tags: UMPC
Do we need a new Psion? This is a question that keeps popping up in various Blogs and threads, often sidetracking the main thrust of the articles.

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Perfect costs too much
Tags: Handtops
It takes a given amount of money to design a new Handtop unit. This amount must be recovered from profit on sales. The larger the number of sales, the (Click here to read the rest)
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Design Your Own
Tags: Handtops
Watching the ongoing discussion over form factor and specifications, it is obvious that no one company is ever going to get it even close to right in (Click here to read the rest)
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Flipstart must succeed.
Tags: FlipStart, OQO, Sony UX, Handtops
The recent announcement of the specifications for the long anticipated and eagerly awaited Flipstart Handtop computer was met in general with a degree (Click here to read the rest)
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FlipStart Flops? Maybe not.
Tags: Sony UX, OQO, UMPC, FlipStart
The revelation of the new century has finally come, with a fizz, plop flop! Conceivably the most anticipated and waited for handtop device ever, the V (Click here to read the rest)
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OQO got it right
Tags: OQO, handtop, UMPC
For all the multitude of mostly fair and valid complaints about the Model 1 and 1+ OQO's, there is one fact that I believe no reasonable person can d (Click here to read the rest)
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Save me from "Progress"
Tags: UMPC, Cell Phones, HTC, WM6
The handtop waters have been comprehensively muddied these last few weeks, with various writers touting the new Apple ?Phone (has anyone got an idea o (Click here to read the rest)
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Apple hysteria and the Magpie factor.
Tags: iPhone, Apple
Without a doubt, Apple produces some great products, even some world beating ones.

The success of these products, however, is not just down to the (Click here to read the rest)
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OQO speed problem, a marketing failure
Tags: OQO
Hi All,

The OQO is widely viewed (and often criticized) as an unacceptably slow handtop, while a number of either newer larger machines or newer ma (Click here to read the rest)
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When last did your Handtop save the bacon?
Tags: Handtop, OQO
My OQO just saved the day for me today, when last did yours?

At the moment, we are seeing a lot of discussion / speculation about handtops future, (Click here to read the rest)
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5" Samsung UMPC Tomorrow!
Tags: UMPC
It looks like Samsung are going to announce a 5" UMPC with keyboard tomorrow Link link
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A workable screen idea!
Tags: Monitor
This might well be the future solution for the hand top screen!

Via Engadget link (Click here to read the rest)
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Progress
Tags: OQO
I was first introduced to the joys of programming a home computer in 1978/79 (not quite sure) while I was still at university. A friend of mine import (Click here to read the rest)
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Touch type or hunt and peck
Tags: Keyboard
Hi all,

I have noted that, in almost every review of smaller laptops and handtops, the reviewers slam the units on the keyboards, sighting the inab (Click here to read the rest)
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