Although the Macbook Air is the world’s thinnest notebook, but it still weighs over 2.5lbs. The newly announced Fujitsu’s P1620 would be a better choice if weight is matters to you and also for those who prefer PC environment than the Mac environment. Note: This is Tablet PC (UMPC). The P1620 weighs 2.2 pounds with a 3-cell battery and 2.5 pounds with a 6-cell battery.

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WiBraid B1 is no stranger to Wikigiz, in fact, we wrote about the B1 Teeny UMPC on Dec. 1.

Let’s recap the detail: WiBrain is a full function ultra mobile pc weighing in at about 1.15-pounds. There’s a 4.8-inch WSVGA touch screen display between a split keyboards. There’s a cute pop-up video camera on top of the unit.

This little cute UMPC is built for portability and style. It has a 4-inch touchscreen, 4GB of Flash storage and full QWERTY keyboard. I think the tiny 4-inch screen is abit too small for some people - like me, but sure it’s lightweight. iRiver’s press release has it down as running embedded Linux Kernel 2.6 with SD expansion slot should be plenty for some compact Linux apps. Perhaps you can install Windows on this baby just like the Asus Eee PC.

As of today, this is the best Asus Eee PC mod I’ve seen and this surely beats the $499 Eee PC 8GB, which has just 8GB of storage / shared video. EeeUser forum’s brave member Johnx took the $140 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager (plus a Bluetooth unit) and ran them off the USB connections from the Mini PCIe ports to make a 20GB, Bluetooth capable transformer of an Eee UMPC. Would you do this if you have a unit?

Source: Gizmodo

A number of Asus Eee ultra-portable computers have shipped with a devil “Warranty Void If Removed” on the memory access door. This label might have rebuked users who otherwise wanted to upgrade their Eee with more memory (normally 512MB or 1GB for the 4G models ~ $349.99. Up to 2GB with hack).

It says: “Asus wishes to assure its customers that merely breaking or removing this kind of seal will not void the Asus Limited Warranty” (full press release, Asus Eee page).

With Asus announced 3.8 million Eee PCs next year, I think many of us would want to buy one next year because it’s cheaper than some PDAs / iPod Touch.

This low-cost UMPC laptop is certainly on my wish list for Christmas. It looks like Asus is giving us a bit more lights of the 7-inch Eee laptop. I saw a few places in downtown where Eee is in stock but the quatity is limited. Now Asus announced that they will ship approax. 3.8 mil of units in 2008 - this is always a good news for those mobile techies!

As Daily Tech reports, at least some of those 3.8 million laptops will be shipping with Windows — specifically, a stripped-down version of XP that’s been designed for “emerging markets”. - add about $30-60 to the price tag.

Source: Daily Tech

Wibrain has hooked up with Dynamism to launch the B1 UMPC. The tiny device has a touchscreen of just 4.8″ in size but 1024 x 600 resolution, acheived through very high pixel density. It’s a Windows XP-packing, lightweight HSDPA device that’s compact, portable and relatively powerful for its size. This can go face to face with the Ultimate OQO’s UMPC that we mentioned earlier.

Wibrain is claiming five hours of official battery time, but being remarkably honest in reducing that to three hours “real world use” in the press release. Other spec includes a 60GB hard drive and 1.2 GHz processor, integrated WiFi, Bluetooth and a pop-up camera / mic for easy VoIP-based communication. The split keyboard, touchpad, cursor keys and touchscreen claim to make navigation a doddle too. Dynamism’s addition is unlimited toll-free support and the standard year’s warranty. Prices start at $699.

What is OQO? According to TechRepublic, OQO is an Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC), but when you pick it up it simply feels like a device that combines the best mobility and connectivity features of a high-end smartphone with the computing power of an ultraportable notebook.OQO is a powerful device, yet the size is petite. According to Guinness World Records, the “OQO” is the smallest full-powered, full-featured personal computer. The U.S. Army uses them at security checkpoints in the Middle East. Others are using them as mini PCs for workers who don’t sit at a desk. For these workers, the OQO is helping to create a new category of PCs - one with a very high geek factor.
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