Manufacturers Unwrap First Origami Ultra Mobile PCs
News The others were built by Asus and Founder, a Chinese technology company. And while the Samsung and Founder devices were operational and being used to play video, the Asus UMPC — the R2H — appeared to have run out of power.
[March 9, 2006, 10:30]
The Lowdown On Asus' Eee PC
Blog Comment This is a *** pre-production *** model and I bought it from a company that did an online review for Asus. My review about ASUS EEE PC: I became one of very few privileged consumers in Canada to own the Asus EEE PC model 701 version with 4 GB drive.
[September 28, 2007, 6:17]
Asus To Ship 60 Percent Of Eee PCs With Windows XP
News Asus has said that around 60 percent of its Eee PCs shipped this year will come with Windows XP pre-installed, according to reports. This tallies with the words of Asus chief executive Jerry Shen, who said in a recent interview that "most...
[March 13, 2008, 11:02]
Asus And Microsoft Unveil Eee Upgrade
News At the same event, Asus announceed a partnership with T-Mobile Germany, which will see the operator distribute Eee PCs with bundled Wi-Fi minutes or HSDPA dongles. We are in close discussions with Asus [regarding] how to take that forward… in...
[March 4, 2008, 17:28]
Gates Lays Out Vision For Future Tech
News As for PCs, Microsoft plans to show off a new Lamborghini laptop from Asus, as well as Lenovo's new IdeaPad consumer laptop line, which includes a model that uses flash memory rather than a hard drive for storage.
[January 7, 2008, 7:16]
Surveys Show Vista Struggling One Year On
News Three launches back this up, said Moody: "The Asus Eee PC looks likely to spawn a new category of ultra-small, ultra-cheap, mobile PCs. Finally, if Google's mobile-phone stack, Android, takes off, we could be seeing hundreds of millions, or even...
[November 23, 2007, 17:36]
Eee 1000 + IPhone 3G = The Ultimate Mobile Combo
Blog Yes my iPhone should have helped with this process but the dodgy 3G connection and a sluggish Wheretobuy page on ASUS's website meant that I was back to old school foot-work). However while Asus led the way and seemed to have got it mostly right...
[July 26, 2008, 12:03]
Ultra Mobile PCs Need Better Battery Life, Says Gartner
News The first examples were displayed at CeBIT this week by manufacturers including Asus, Samsung, and Founder. Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs) face the same problem as previous tablet PCs in that their battery life is not long enough at the moment for...
[March 10, 2006, 15:55]
Will Microsoft Ever Stop Selling XP?
Blog While writing up the release details of Asus' Eee Box today, it took me a moment to twig that the machine was slightly odd. Microsoft had set June 30 as the cut-off date for XP sales, except for "netbooks" like the mobile Eee PC - how come a...
[June 20, 2008, 17:00]
Xandros To Return Freespire To Debian Roots
News Xandros is best known for customised operating system software aimed at original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including Asus, which runs a version of Xandros on its popular Eee PC. Separately, Xandros said it expects to see revenue of about $30m...
[August 8, 2008, 15:26]
UMPC: Better, But The Jury's Still Out
Blog We've just reviewed our second Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), the R2H from ASUS. It's taken until now to get our hands on a second UMPC, and the ASUS R2H is a big improvement. In case you'd forgotten, the UMPC caused something of a stir back in February...
[December 6, 2006, 12:33]
Next Windows Mobile Primed For Release
News Meanwhile, Taiwanese manufacturer Asus this week showed off a Windows 2003-based handheld with a VGA screen at the CeBit trade show in Germany. Next week Microsoft is expected to announce an update to its Windows Mobile operating system, which...
[March 19, 2004, 8:00]
Ultimate Road-warrior Tech At CeBIT
News Asus has been amazed at the interest shown by corporate buyers who are looking for a light computer that can be used for email, writing and web browsing, as well as being perfectly suitable for spreadsheet work and presentations — if you can can...
[March 7, 2008, 11:36]
IDF: Ultramobile Intel Processor Breaks Cover, Adopts Linux, Gets Alliance.
Blog To that end, Intel has convened the Mobile Internet Device Innovation Alliance - the idea is that you'll only buy this stuff if it connects to the net by wireless, and that's not wrong - with its friends in Elektrobit, Compal, Asus, Quanta...
[April 18, 2007, 4:53]
Can Linux Forget Desktops And Servers?
Blog There's the Asus Eee PC, and an expected rush of other devices, joining the few that have seeded that segment, like the Nokia N800 tablet. Windows Mobile hasn't done that well outside the US, which has always been a smaller and freakier mobile...
[November 26, 2007, 14:48]
Intel Launches Atom Power, Devices Due In June
News The MIDs, coming from companies such as Lenovo, Asus and Panasonic, will run Windows or Linux and are being promoted as the functional equivalent of a wireless-connected PC in pocket format. The new chips, described by the company as entirely Core...
[April 2, 2008, 10:41]
Acer Launches £199 Subnotebook
News The 'mobile internet device' (MID), which Acer is trying very hard to categorise away from its higher-end laptops, is one of the first machines to be based on Intel's low-power Atom processor. The Acer Aspire One will be on UK shelves on 10 July...
[June 3, 2008, 17:01]
