Okay, so Samsung has now decided to join the OLPC fray by announcing a Q1 Ultra that will be education-focussed, and sell for only £399 (approx. $800), to compete with the ‘Asus Eee effect’, when it launches in the UK later this month.
The Q1 is a drastically different device, but it does have a touchscreen, and the new model will run Windows Vista. Curiously, the Q1 that has already launched in the UK is priced at around £2000, so that’s quite the price-cut.
How and why this device would compete with the Eee is beyond me, since it doesn’t appear to have the form-factor or the price point that would cater well to children or developing countries, but sure, let’s keep our eye on it, shall we?
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It looks like that the Asus is getting a lot of competitors for its Eee pc. I feel that the Eee pc might not sell well this year because of the competitors.
The things that I think won’t do for Samsung O1 because it is currently running on Vista which is having a lot of complains from users all over the world. The price is also too high to compete with its competitors.
[...] so no sooner has Samsung issued the challenge against the Eee PC with their Q1 Ultra, than Gigabyte has unveiled their UMPC mini-tablet at CeBit, in Germany.