If you are careful, you really can see the future. Did you noticed especially in the early times of the Origami to UMPC journey, some UMPCs at the presentations were running some software (probably GUIs) with “Yahoo!” images. I made some plans including Yahoo! for the UMPC in my head (and it’s prototype in my hands), but i couldn’t figure out why after all those time there wasn’t anything coming from Yahoo!.
But it looks like something is coming. According to TG Daily Intel and Yahoo are developing a next-gen Yahoo! branded UMPC. It will be smaller,but not faster than current UMPCs.
Intel provided a sneak peek at one of the UMPCs planned to hit the market in 2007 - a Yahoo! branded mobile device - that packs a comprehensive feature set into a small form factor. Technical details were scarce, but the presentation and hints given by senior vice president Dadi Perlmutter indicate that this will be the UMPC Microsoft and Intel should have introduced earlier this year. According to the executive, the devices will not use Core 2 Duo processor, and “consume approximately half the power of today’s CPUs with approximately one-fourth the package size.”
News are probably true, but although TG Daily looks certain, i couldn’t be sure of Yahoo! branded UMPCs. They might be just making a good GUI integrated with online Yahoo! services. And this picture increases my suspicion:
“Yahoo! Go for UMPCs”. It sounds like a service rather than a hardware product, doesn’t it? It doesn’t say “Yahoo! Go UMPC”.
And below that “based on Intel Reference Design”, not ” the UMPC Yahoo! and Intel planning”.
