The UMPC - Waste of time?
Short Answer is YES
The UMPC or Ultra Mobile PC in my opinion is a step in the wrong direction for PC’s and PC sales. Sure the UMPC’s have their purpose, or do they. Lets see what do they do for the consumer.
- Wireless Connectivity to Internet
- Word processing
- Basic general computing
- Light weight
So if they do all this why do I still think they are horrible? a few reasons one of which is the fact that Cell Phones are slowly becoming UMPC’s. No matter how much companies deny this fact, that’s where we are headed in the future. There are even versions of the iphone with projectors on them. I am no mac fanboi, but the iphone + the app store + the touchscreen keyboard will kill UMPC sales. The HTC touch is another alternative and windows mobile is becoming more robust as well.
Flip an iphone or HTC touch to the side and you now have a keyboard almost the same size as any umpc. Add a MicroSD or other storage card and you have an affective space for documents. The only feature that cells are missing currently is an external monitor display.
What do you think?
August 28th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
For apps and editing I would go with the HTC touch. For fun and features, the iphone.