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Aving posted a futuristic UMPC Design of Fujitsu , presented at CEATEC 2006 Tokyo.

PMPInside , PCBee and Generation MP3 posted a lot of Kohjinsha SA1 photos.

And here is a PC Watch review of it. ( Japanese , Translation )

We would like us to recommend to the person who searches the mini- note which seriously considered portable characteristic than performance.

Samsung always liked UMPC-PDA business, and they are continuing their attitude. Akihabara News posted a new portable PC from Samsung : It’s like the intersection point of UMPC and PDA.

Here’s the SPH-P9000 Deluxe MITs, a PC shaped like a PDA, with Windows XP, a 30GB hard disk, 256MB of RAM, a 5” display, a 1GHz CPU, WiMAX, CDMA EV-DO, and a 1.3Mpix camera. It measures 143×94x29mm and weights 580g.

It looks like everyone in Eastern Asia is working on a new UMPC, and i still couldn’t find finance. There must be something wrong with me :D. (Can it be because i’m not Korean?)

UMPC Buzz pointed out a new UMPC from Korea : Uren. There isn’t much info about it yet, and their website is Korean , as you can guess. But as i see, it has a 1 GHz CPU , 7″ WVGA Touch Screen , Windows XP / XP Embedded , GPS , 30 GB HDD , DMB with 192 * 120.5 * 25 mm size and 695 grams weight. They are touting it as “MobileAutoPC”.

Carrypad discovered a new “UMPC” : Arima UM650UV1.

Specifications :

VIA ULV C7-M, 1.0GHz
512 MB DDR2-533 RAM
6.5″ WVGA TFT with LED Backlight
40 GB 4200 RPM HDD
802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0

As Steve found out through Origamiproject forum (i wonder how he didn’t notice before), it is the same machine as Medion MD RIM 100.

A Japanese company , Kohjinsha is entering portable PC market with a little different design. It’s almost a UMPC with a keyboard, but it doesn’t have XP Tablet Edition.

Specifications :

AMD LX800 (500 MHz)
7″ WVGA (800*480) TFT with LED backight
512 MB - 1 GB DDR 333 RAM
40 - 80 GB HDD
802.11b/g Wireless LAN
Bluetooth 2.0

5 hours of battery life (with fast-charging)

You can read full official specifications here.

You can already pre-order from Dynamism for $999 (40 GB) or $1249 (80 GB) . It will be available in “Early December”.

Ignar, Origami Project user, has posted a picture gallery of the Q1b and R2H, one on top of each other.

Compared to R2H, Q1 is definitely thinner, lighter and easier to hold.

UMPC Buzz posted a long list of UX50 videos (a total of 14) hosted on YouTube.

PBJ commissioned Designer Cripsin Jonesto design a UMPC.

This UMPC is designed to be a non-business machine - whereas once we lived in a world where computers were solely for business, today our personal lives are often experienced through the computer. However we are still stuck with the business machine paradigm. For example looking at family photographs on a conventional laptop is a slightly sterile experience - certainly compared with looking at a traditional bound album. This design brings the more emotive qualities of the traditional photo album to the world of technology.

OrigamiCar announced a nice application for UMPCs (it will be useful for Tablets too i believe) : Taskswitcher.

What is TaskSwitcher?

TaskSwitcher is a small application specifically written for UMPC touchscreen computers that gives you instant access to various useful functions that are otherwise a little more tricky on a computer without a keyboard.

When it is running, a small gray panel appears at the top center of the screen on your UMPC. Tapping this panel allows you to cycle through your open programs.