The Sony VAIO UX is a hand held computer that’s so small it makes a 10 inch netbook look like Godzilla.  Unfortunately the VAIO UX series, which was first introduced about 3 years ago, didn’t do well enough to keep the product category alive and Sony eventually pulled it from the consumer market less than 2 years later.  But that…

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Chinese device maker EKING is apparently working on a new mobile computer that appears to be a sort of touchscreen tablet with a 5 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display. What makes it different from all the other touchscreen tablets out there is the fact that you can slide the screen to reveal a QWERTY keyboard. While the device looks…

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The Viliv N5 looks like the love child of a netbook and a smarpthone. Or rather, it looks like a netbook that’s abotu the size of a smartphone. It has a QWERTY keybaord, an Intel Atom processor, and runs Windows 7. But it has a 4.8 inch display and can almost fold up and fit in your pocket. Dynamism is…

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[/caption] Samsung officials say the company will be ready to launch a new slate PC in the second half of 2010. APC Magazine reports that the computer will have a “PC-grade” processor. There’s no information about exactly what that CPU will be, or what OS the tablet will run. But it sounds like Samsung is convinced that the iPad has…

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Apple may have created a huge buzz around tablet computers when the company introduced the iPad last week. But while a number of other PC makers including Asus, MSI, HP, Dell, and others are expected to launch 5 to 10 inch slate PCs this year, there’s at least one company that’s apparently decided to sit this one out… for now….

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs is likely preparing to officially pull the veil off of the worst-and-best kept secret in the tech industry tomorrow with the introduction of some sort of Apple Tablet. You know, unless the company is even better at keeping secrets than we thought and he’s actually unveiling a new space tourism initiative that provides you with one…

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The Touch Book from Always Innovating is designed to blur the lines between netbooks and UMPCs. The machine has an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a keyboard. But you can also remove the display and use it as a portable tablet. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this kind of configuration. The original Elonex One netbook…

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While VIA reps were busy showing off some of the first Chinese netbooks running the VIA Nano processor at a restaurant across the street from the Las Vegas Convention Center, Samsung was apparently hiding a VIA nano-based UMPC in plain site on the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show. The Samsung Q1Ex is a 7 inch, keyboardless device with a…

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I love me a good netbook. There’s nothing like a small computer that balances low price, a good sized keyboard and decent performance. I’ve been a bit less keen on UMPCs over the years, because a device with a high price tag, small screen, and no keyboard just doesn’t suit my needs. But two bits of news today have be…

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Looking to buy a netbook, UMPC, or MID, but not sure what sets one apart from another? Chippy at UMPC Portal has put together a comprehensive guide explaining pretty much everything you need to know before rushing out to buy your next (or first) ultraportable computing device.   The UMPC Buyers Guide doesn’t present a long list of devices. For that,…

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While Eee PC users wait to see whether the Aeeeris Tablet kit which will let them turn an Eee PC 701 into a tablet style computer ever materializes, it looks like at least one Acer Aspire One User has figured out how to build a cheap tablet PC out of his netbook. There’s not much in the way of information…

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A pre-release version of Ubuntu Mobile has been released. What’s Ubuntu Mobile? It’s a custom version of Ubuntu Linux designed to run on handheld MID devices with 7 to 9 inch touchscreen displays. In other words, UMPCs. Ubuntu Mobile is not the same thing as Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which is designed for netbooks, or small, low power laptops with full…

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