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PDA? UMPC? What is it?

Tuesday, 7. November 2006, 05:29:42

Whatever you wanna call it, it falls into the category that I really hold a place for in my heart. I am big fan of all things that are more portable than a laptop but larger than a pda. There really is a happy medium for a "truly portable" device, this device may have hit that happy medium on the head.

The Kohjinsha SA1F00 is one of the devices that is nice and small but it has the capabilities to do anything a regular computer can(ok maybe not play top of the line games, but you understand). What really makes this stand out above and beyond is the fact that A. it has a nice price range, $750 for one with 40gb of HD space or $930 for one with an 80gb HD and Office installed. and B. because it so portable yet it has all the same aspects as a standard laptop, wifi, bluetooth, up to 1gb of ram, 5 hours of battery life. This portable wonder packs a 533mhz AMD Geode processor, which may not sound like much but for a device like this it's more than plenty. Now only if I could ditch the OS for a flavor of linux it would be great in my book(it comes standard with Windows XP). I think though that I will have to stick with my favorite portable computer of choice, the Nokia 770, oh the touch screeny goodness.

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OLED Magic

Wednesday, 1. February 2006, 01:02:50

Computer, Keyboard, Mac, Windows ...

So the long wait is over and much to the suprise of many people the full sized keyboard that Art. Lebedev Studio has been toting on their website. Instead they released the Optimus Three mini keyboard, the first keyboard with full color screens on each key. The uses for this little three key piece of magic are infinite as the little screens are able to be changed by you and can even do animation up to 5 fps. The device itself uses USB 1.0 and is compatible with Mac OS, Linux and Windows but currently they are working on the utlities for it oso you can configure your keys. They are taking pre-orders this week and the device will run $100 if purchased before April 2nd and it will go up after that. If you have your heart set on the full sized keyboard then hold off till the end of the year when they plan on releasing it.