Eee PC

About a week ago, rumors got around about Toshiba’s plans on unveiling a dual-touchscreen tablet PC that wielded 7-inch displays with the codename “GuideBook.” The rumor said that it would launch this June, and, lo and behold, it’s actually here. Toshiba officially announced it today as the Libretto W100 alongside a new ultrathin notebook to [...]

This is probably not as popular now (or ever, in some parts of the world), but people used to buy pocket electronic dictionaries. I haven’t spotted one being used myself but bookstores still carry a few of these things around, just in case. With the roll out of UMPCs, gadgets of that size were quickly [...]

Ah, technology, what wonders you bring to us! Take this recent example of a UMPC that’s been the talk of the town, the UMIB mBook BZ. It certainly has the chops to take on your lightweight tasks that most netbooks are capable of. So how were they able to stuff everything into such a small [...]

Lenovo’s chief Yang Yuanqing stated that in the next five years, up to 80 percent of their sales will be through Internet-enabled mobile devices. Included in this forecast are the sales for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks and similar products. Lenovo is currently the fourth largest computer maker. Yang added that Lenovo will be moving into emerging [...]

Chippy of UMPC Portal posted a very compelling piece about how the Internet basically split into two, the ‘full’ Internet and the mobile Internet. It’s an informative read for any mobile warrior and the article touches on how access to the Web has changed over the years. Basically, the mobile ‘Net was just a subset [...]