[dundee] UMPC's

[Rick]

On 20/01/2008, Simon Wells <swells at computing.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
> Well I have been keeping an eye on these guys with their extensible
> platform:
> http://www.buglabs.net/

That's pretty awesome, and exactly the kind of innovation I like to see.

> and of course have been drooling over these:
> http://europe.nokia.com/A4568578:

I'm not entirely sure if I understand the use cases for these MID
devices.  Don't get me wrong I think they're pretty neat, but for me
they seem too small to be useful.  They're too big to be a phone, yet
too small to comfortably type on.  I'd imagine that the UMPC (e.g. the
EEE PC) form factor will pretty much prevent mainstream adoption of
these devices.

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3722646

> Linux in the consumer oriened embedded, low-power, and portable/UMPC
> marketplace really seems to be hotting up.

Agreed.

> Simon
> p.s. Rick, nice to see you on the list, even if the circumstances
> surrounding your first post were a little strained! :)

Cheers Simon.

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Rick Moynihan
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