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Win a UMPC From Microsoft
Only 4 days left to write and tell Microsoft why you’d love to be a happy new owner of a UMPC. If you do tell them, and they like what you say, you can win a Samsung UMPC and a Slingbox! So get those old rusty essay skills dusted off and get to writing!
UMPC Contest [...]
Nokia 770 Down ‘N Dirty
Mike Cane, featured guest host and mobile-madman for jkOnTheRun, got his lucky hands on the Nokia 770 while at LinuxWorld Expo for a full featured review.
So far: it’s smaller than we imagined, it’s as slow as we imagined but getting better, and it does A LOT more than we imagined. Flash and Java will [...]
Quick Update to Site
Just a short, quick note that I moved the former OQO and Flipstart sections to a new category titled Ultra PCs.
I still hold my claim that there is a big future for Ultra PC gaming. One day my friends, you’ll be able to play any current PC game in today’s market on a viable handheld.
Hello, Nokia 770
Portagamers meet Nokia 770, Nokia 770 meet Portagamers.
The 770 is NOT A PHONE. It is just Nokia’s latest attempt to venture out of the cellphone market (not like the N-Gage, which is first a phone, second a video game system). The 770 IS an internet tablet. It’s mostly designed for jumping on the web, [...]
The OQO Says “BUY ME”
Handtops.com keeps a close eye on ultra pcs. You know, the ones that can fit in your pocket and fully run 32bit operating systems (and their games…and their games!) We love the gaming potential of these micro form factor pcs.
Now, Handtops.com is telling us that you can actually buy a ultra pc in the states. [...]
OQO Sets Launch Oct 14
OQO Beautiful…we’ve waited so long! Now, on October 14, we’ll finally have a chance to own you!
According to a corporate email sent out by OQO, their handheld PC will leave the shackles of “Vaporware” as it materializes into reality. The purchase price is still expected to be in the $2K range, so we’ll be saving [...]
FlipStart Shows True Colors, Runs XP
This one gets filed under Duh. The fab FlipStart PC by Paul Allen’s startup company Vulcan, is going to be produced with Windows XP as it’s OS of choice. Smack me into consciousness, because I don’t think I saw that one coming. Paul Allen and a Windows product. Who would’ve guessed?
Ok, I don’t mean [...]
OQO Profiled in News.com Video
The OQO UltraPC makes an appearance in recent news clip from News.com. The video features Jonathan Betts-LaCroix, OQO’s CTO, being intervied by David Berlind from ZDnet. He mentions specs, drop tests, release dates and pricing (approx.), and pulls the battery pack off to show how thin it is. Worth the three minute clip and very [...]
Forty Companies to get OQO Taste Test
OQO, Inc., annouced at CeBit that they have hand-selected a round-up of 40 companies to trial-run the OQO uPC system. We suspect that these include companies in the health, travel, and logistics industries as the system seems best-suited for such. We still aren’t too sure as to how it will fit in the Gaming [...]
oQo vs. Sony Vaio Type-U
Excess Luggage offers a very brief, and we mean brief, comparison of the oQo uPC to the Sony Vaio Type-U.