Kohjinsha UMPC - kinda like a mini tablet pc
Posted by Chris Leckness on 12/8/06 in Laptops, Smart Phones, UMPC
Is it a UMPC, is it a Tablet, or just a mini laptop? Could it be all 3? As you can see by the photo below, its nice and small. Akihabaranews.com has a mini review of this cool looking device. Unfortunately, we probaly won’t be seeing this come to the US. (But if it does, be assured that Kevin Tofel will know!)
Kohjinsha offers 2 versions of its UMPC on the Japanese and Korean markets. The SA1F00A has 512MB of RAM and a 40GB hard disk. The SA1F00B also has 512MB of RAM, but a 80GB hard disk. The computer can receive up to 1GB of RAM. So far, this UMPC like computer has a rather common configuration, but the real difference with a Samsung Q1 or an Asus R2F lies with the choice of CPU. Kohjinsha decided to install a 500MHz AMD Geode LX800 CPU, which seems rather light compared to the 900MHz Celeron installed in the computers that receive the Microsoft UMPC label. We’ll get back to this topic later on.
The other main special feature of this UMPC is its pivot screen that allows you to use the computer in slate mode like a Tablet PC, or in PC mode. Such feature would sound useless without a touch screen, but in slate mode, portrait viewing makes it easier to read Word and PDF files, eBooks, even surf the web. Kohjinsha thought about including a mouse, an up and down scroll, and a left/right click on each side of the screen to further facilitate reading documents in portrait mode.
Check out the review at Akihabaranews.com
Written by Chris Leckness · Filed Under Laptops, Smart Phones, UMPC
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