News Week of November 16, 2008Five Gadget Which Were Killed by The Cellphone The UMPC The Ultra Mobile PC was a failed experiment, although once in while a company will drag the rotting corpse from its comfortable grave, slap on a bit of makeup and try to sell the idea again. The reason? Cellphones. Think about it: The UMPC was a full-fledged computer crammed into a tiny box with an impossible-to-use keyboard, with pathetic battery life and a hilariously high price tag. The phone, in contrast, offers an operating system and interface designed for the modest hardware on which it will run. It's cheap, and the battery lasts for days. Better still, phones are only getting more powerful. The iPhone and the G1 are both handheld computers which happen to have a phone attached. And if you really do need a bigger screen, you can pick up two or three netbooks for the price of one UMPC. (Source: Charlie Sorrel, Wired Bog Network) Mouse Gesture app launcher, free today only. Good for Tablet PCs? Panasonic ToughBook CF-U1 Those looking for a device with more performance, or a full keyboard, may want to consider Panasonic's larger ToughBooks, which include the CF-19 and the CF-30. The warranty on the Panasonic ToughBook range is three years. Panasonic currently has a large chunk of the market share in Australian rugged devices. They have a number of big customers, including Sydney Water, Telstra, National Foods, Coca-Cola Amatil, Bluescope Steel, Mitsubishi Motors and Ambulance Victoria. (Source: Alex Serpo, ZDNet Australia) Fujitsu Siemens launches mobile clinical assistant Fujitsu Siemens Computers has announced the launch of the Esprimo MA, a tablet PC designed for mobile working in the healthcare sector. It is based on the Intel Mobile Clinical Assistant platform and features the new Intel Atom low-power processor designed to give long battery life for mobile devices. It closely follows the launch of the Panasonic MCA earlier this month, which also features the Intel Atom. It will be available in production quantities in the second quarter of 2009. The Esprimo MA weighs only 1.3kg and is fanless, which enables it to have a fully sealed housing that can be sterilised for use in healthcare environments. It has integrated high-speed 3G/UMTS (3G is optional), WLAN and Bluetooth wireless communications. (Source: BJHC&IM) |
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