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IPad may kill Handtops

Where are the Bold conc...

xpPhone - The way to go...

The Future - rebuild th...

To build the "per...

Performance Capped

Intel's vision of futu...

OQO Model 01+ v/s 02

Handtops as consumer el...

HTC Shift - the Model T...

Shipping delays

OQO Model 01+ enough?

My trusty friend

Define and Copyright Ha...

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IPad may kill Handtops

The past two years have been pretty dismal as far as Handtops are concerned. The Vulcan FlipStart and OQO are no more, the Sony UX is gone, replaced b (Click here to read the rest)

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Where are the Bold concepts?

I bought my first Handtop because it was a bold, world changing idea of a device, even if it did not work all that well, all that often, and for that (Click here to read the rest)

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xpPhone - The way to go?

A Windows XP based phone – I have been waiting for years for this beast. This is Nirvana, gadget heaven etc. And yet, I find myself wondering if I wil (Click here to read the rest)

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The Future - rebuild the past

Everyone has a favourite handtop device. I have two in fact, the OQO model E2, and my much loved ugly duckling FlipStart. Both were great in there day (Click here to read the rest)

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To build the "perfect" Handtop

The last two years have brought sharply into focus for me a burning question, not “who makes the perfect handtop?", but rather “what would const (Click here to read the rest)

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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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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

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.

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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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