Here's a new buzz word for a possible new category of mobile computer "The Wee PC":
from
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Hefty laptop computers? They’re only seen with corporate laggards. Nifty notebook PCs? They’re okay if you are a nomadic nerd, who wants to carry an entire office with you. Tomorrow’s ‘connected road warriors’ can spare neither the space nor the muscle power to lug kilograms of computing power on global forays. They demand a lean, mean, pocket machine that is smaller and lighter than the smallest notebook PC available today - yet larger and better featured than the so-called cross-over devices such as ‘smart’ phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs).
Enter, a new personal computing product category that the industry has just recognised as the next big thing to happen to the PC platform. It is called the UMPC or Ultra Mobile Personal Computer - or as so many are already dubbing it, the Wee PC.
When the computer manufacturing industry first tried its hands at creating the UMPC about a year ago, the result was a resounding flop. Microsoft, ever alert for new form factors to fuel its continued domination of the personal computer, suggested something that it called the Origami - a cheap pocket-sized mini-Tablet PC. A few tentative realisations appeared on the market only to vanish swiftly. It was an imperfect idea, ahead of its time.
Meanwhile, Broadband was born. This changed the UMPC business into what Americans call a ‘whole new ball game’. With Wireless internet access becoming more ubiquitous and the appetites of potential customers whetted by the superior speeds of wired broadband internet, the idea of a truly mobile platform that can do everything that a desktop PC can do - including accessing the Web - in an attractive and light form factor, has taken firm root.
The timing is right for another reason too: There was a whole mobile phone user community out there, ready and willing to use bandwidth-intensive applications such as streaming video and mobile TV - but in so many geographies (including India), spectrum crunches were holding back cellular providers from going to third generation or 3G services.
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has his take after spotting a brief flash of a new RM device:
The hands above might look big but they most certainly are not. It's just that RM's new "Wee PC" - it's nickname at the Scottish Learning Festival - is pretty small. And it manages to pack an awful lot of features into such a petite frame, including webcam and microphone at the top of its 7-inch screen for video-conferencing.
This prototype from Asus made a fleeting visit to Glasgow before being packed off back to the Far East for more love and attention. Reaction from advisers it was shown to in Glasgow was very favourable. Expect to see it return for the Handheld Learning 2007 event in London in October
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Then, of course, is the speculation over what
Apple has up it's sleeve for early next year...
This all points to a rather interesting Handheld Learning 2007 methinks
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