03.17.06
Fourth
Origami UMPC Uses VIA Processor
 By
Nathan Weinberg
There's some info coming out on the fourth "Origami" Ultra
Mobile PC (after the Asus, Samsung and Founder devices), and it doesn't
use an Intel chip.
The Smart Caddie UMPC comes from Japanese firm PBJ, and is powered
by a one gigahertz Via C7M processor. The rest of its features are
similar to those of the other UMPCs (BlueTooth, Wifi), although there
are two things that are disheartening:
* Two and half hour battery life (compared to four hours for the Samsung)
* $1190 price (ouch!)
As you can see in the picture
at Gizmodo, the Smart Caddie, while whitish, is the same one from
the leaked photos and Microsoft emulator program. Which means it has
the same looks we didn't like in the first place.
Some other details from PBJ's
website (PDF,
in Japanese, help!):
* Runs Windows XP Tablet
* Via VN800 S3 Graphics Unichrome Pro IGP
* 800×480 TFT
* Dimension: 228×146x25.1 mm
* Weight: 860 grams
There are also more details on the Founder MiniNote UMPC at paperbackpc.com:
* Intel® ULV Celeron ® 900MHz or Intel® ULV Pentium® 1GHz
* Pre-installed legal copy Microsoft® Windows®XP family version
* Chip group Intel® 915 GMS chip group
* Memory 256MB/512MB DDRII memory
* Display monitor 7 "W
* Hard disk 30G
* I/O port 1 power source connection
* 1 microphone jack
* 1 telephone jack
* 2 USB 2.0 connections
* Port duplication connection
* Wireless accesses
* Keyboard Folds
* 1.3 million picture elements
* Battery 3 cores intelligences lithium ion battery
* Bestows Joylink software
* Size 225.5mm x 144mm x 23/25mm (8.85?x5.66?x0.9?)
* Weight Approximately 830g
By making them vertically aligned, developers were able to overcome
problems with irregular shapes that reduced efficiency and increased
surface area. The LEES ultracapacitor nanotubes are only several atomic
diameters in width, and can be made into any of the sizes currently
available, produced by conventional technology.
"This configuration has the potential to maintain and even improve
the high performance characteristics of ultracapacitors while providing
energy storage densities comparable to batteries," said Joel E. Schindall,
the Bernard Gordon Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science (EECS) and associate director of the Laboratory for Electromagnetic
and Electronic Systems.
"Nanotube-enhanced ultracapacitors
would combine the long life and high power characteristics of a commercial
ultracapacitor with the higher energy storage density normally available
only from a chemical battery."
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the Author:
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