The UMID M1 might not be the best handheld device out there for mobile computing, but there are certainly people willing to pay for it. So of course, there are also people willing to sell it. French technology group Sagemcom wishes to have a piece of the small UMID M1 pie and so have decided to rebrand it as the Spiga PocketBook, a variant with a 1.1GHz Intel Atom CPU, 8GB SSD storage and built-in 3G connectivity. It's going to be priced €499 (about $742 USD) and might possibly go for lower if carrier subsidies happen somehow. It's not a bad little contraption, but as Pocketables points out it makes little sense to get the Spiga PocketBook for about the same price as a "real" (non-rebranded) UMID M1 that offers more. But well, people have their reasons.
Via Pocketables
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