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Duros – an 8-inch rugged tablet PC

Those working in harsh environment will need to have a computer that can stand the test of drop and collision. A computer with a rugged body is definitely your choice. Duros is an UMPC that is specially designed to withstand environment that is dusty, wet, with extreme temperature, and ideally it could pass many thousand times of drops.

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HP’s rumored Compaq 2133: to share a bite of the UMPC market?

HP seems wanna share a bite of the UMPC market. Rumor is floating around telling us that HP is readying its new ultra mobile computer, called HP Compaq 2133. Although some still claim it’s just a rumor, but they have all the pictures ready for you and also pretty detailed specs. But only the price still remains as secret.

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Acer to launch low-cost UMPC, costs only $470, follows the Asus Eee’s food step!

I was told that Asus Eee has run out of stock worldwide and Asus actually underestimated its popularity.

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Super lightweight PC: Lenovo’s ultra small PC weighs 300g only!

Something you might have missed at CES 2008. An ultra small prototyped PC, which might not be the world’s smallest, but it could be the lightest, has been revealed by Lenovo at CES 2008 last week. The ultra small prototyped PC weighs only 300g and it employs the “Menlow” – the new platform that Intel Corp is planning to launch in 2008. The ultra small PC runs Linux as the OS. It targets startup time of 20 seconds with easy menu icons for internet ,entertainment, and Home are to be displayed on the startup screen.

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Fair comparison? Macbook Air VS Asus EEE!

The thinnest of the Macbook Air that can easily fit in a manila envelope, has attracted many to make comparisons with some UPMCish computers. The Asus EEE that we’ve seen before has also been picked for comparison with the Air. Isn’t it fair to have a direct comparison like that. The Air is super thin, we all know, but one great thing I like is, despite the thinnest it still offers a wide and comfortable enough screen of 13″ for the users. For some of you prefer lightness of a notebook than the thinness, of course, it’s best to go for a UMPC, if you wouldn’t mind the overly small 7-8 inch screen.

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Fujitsu’s notebook, P1620 lighter than (MacBook) air

Although the Macbook Air is the world’s thinnest notebook, but it still weighs about 3 pounds, which wouldn’t be the best choice for some of you who value the lightness more than the thinness. The newly announced Fujitsu’s P1620 would be a better choice for its lightness and also for those who prefer PC environment than the Mac environment. The P1620 weighs 2.2 pounds with a 3-cell battery and 2.5 pounds with a 6-cell battery.

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MTube – world’s smallest PC in action!

World’s smallest PC, MTube was presented at CES 2008. Many would have missed this smallest PC at CES as it’s so tiny, measures at 3.34 x 3.34 x 0.78 inches and weighs 5.3 ounces only. The smallest guy here is a full-featured computer that runs Linux operating system and is a WiFi-enabled UMPC. Full specs and video of this tiny guy in action presented to you after the jump!

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Cheapest UMPC? ASUS Eee UMPC costs only $200

UMPC has been in the market for quite some time. If it’s because of pricing issue that you haven’t got your first UMPC and you’ve been eyeing for the possibility of some price drop later. Now, you don’t have to wait any longer. As ASUS has just announced a new line of its UMPC, called Eee, which falls in the very affordable price range. The ASUS Eee UMPC comes with a few versions that go pretty low price, which you can get one as low as $200 only.

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A wrist-worn computer or UMPC? It’s Zypad WL 1000!

Well, the Zypad WL 1000 is a computer that the size is so compact that can be worn on your wrist just like a watch. A wrist-worn UMPC? Well, strictly speaking, it’s no UMPC as it’s running either Windows CE 5.0 or Linux backend.

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ANYCOM Stowaway Keyboard lets you type quickly on your PDA, smartphone

Although your smartphone, PDA or UMPC comes with a QWERTY keyboard, but I don’t think they can provide you as much productivity as the full-sized PC QWERTY that your’re used to. This is simply because of your fingers are too big to type quickly on the overly small QWERTY of your PDA or smartphone. Due to the small size of the QWERTY of your smartphone or PDA, you tend to not to use it for typing long email messages, memos or surfing the web. Even though it comes with almost all the functionalities that you get on your laptop/PC. The ANYCOM Stowaway Keyboard is the wireless Bluetooth-enabled full-sized PC keyboard that works with any PDA, smartphone, tablet etc, to enable you to gain as much productivity as using the full-sized PC QWERTY keyboard.

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