Comments on: Mobile minitablets still grounded despite new tech

Whether you call it a UMPC, an MID or a minitablet, it's far from certain you'll ever call it a success.
Photos: Intel ultramobiles

[inachu]

I would love to have one!

It is these kinds of exotic computers that need to be in stores. I will not be "WOWED" until I feel it in my hands running as a demo in some retail store. The feel of the functionality over just looking at some flashy is what sells me.

[tundraboy]

Tweener's never sell

Too big to carry around in your pocket, too small to do real PC work (surfing, word processing, spreadsheets, etc.).

Only for people with severe gadgetitis. Intel should have redesigned the human being first before pushing UMPCs.

[mahurshi]

don't shun it off so fast ..

even if they're too small to type 10 page essays and too big to carry in the pockets, i still see some possibilities:

1. tiny kiosks at supermarkets at the aisles, (probably even one on top of your shopping cart?), airports, etc

2. one inside the dashboard of your car (since these are fully functional PCs, they're very flexible and more powerful than a GPS device that can "also play MP3s and DVDs"

3. in the hands of waiters and waitresses at restaurants

4. inside fitness equipments at the gym (treadmills, etc etc)

5. factory machinery info display/control systems

6. nurses can use these at hospitals to enter patient information/take readings/reduce human errors

etc etc

The possibilities are endless ;-)


Mahurshi Akilla

[David H Dennis]

IPhone

I'm typing this on my iPhone, and it seems to do everything
promised for these devices and more.

I can read email, surf the web and do pretty much everything
else I need short of software development or heavy typing.

I certainly don't think I need anything else, and it serves as my
phone too!

This is a very tough device to compete with. Microsoft, beware!

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