There are comments and photos coming from an anonymous reader about a new Sony ultra-portable PC - kinda like UMPC as a lot of people categorize, but not me (let me explain later). It was said to have 7″ 1024*600 touch screen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Core Solo, WAN, biometric sensor, dual cameras, “UMPC” with Windows XP Pro (not Tablet Edition), Flash HDD. And here is a teaser video of it on Sony US’s (Sony U series were mostly “only in Japan”) website. The link directs to “notebooks” and “Vaio”s. The teaser underlines its’ being “Blu” ! (Blu-ray ? )
An intelligent reader of JKontherun , cobalt , made good scaling of these photos.
If you take the next to last picture (the one of the device head on) and scale it to 63%, it will make the screen about 5″. Then the fingerprint scanner is about 0.5″, almost exactly the size of the fingerprint scanner on the Fujitsu P1510 (using it for comparison only), and the keys on the thumb-board are almost exactly the size of the ones on the Cingular 8125 version of the HTC Wizard, just spaced out more.
And an Engadget reader told that the screen is 4.5″.
Now, imagine this screen 4.5-5″ with 1024*600 screen. It will be like wearing someone nearsighted’s glasses with healty eyes. (remember Game Boy magnifiers?)
And why do i think it’s not a UMPC? Because especially nowadays’ ( ! ) UMPC comes with a 7″ screen. It can be 6″ - 8″ (maybe 8.4″ like LS800), but 4.5″-5″? And with a Blu-Ray maybe? I don’t think so.
We will see what it will unfold into tomorrow.
