Blue Thunder BT260, an ultra portable based on Via Nanobook UMD reference design, has been released in Malaysia. The UMPC comes with a 7″ touch panel screen, modular VoIP bluetooth handset, 30Gb Hard Disk Drive and 512Mb RAM. BT260 is selling at this online store for US$686 (RM$2199). An operating system is not included […]

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PCAdvisor.co.uk has released a review on Everex Cloudbook CE1200V, comparing it with Asus Eee PC. Great, another comparison review, that is, if you have never read it before. The article is similar to ComputerWorld’s review reported earlier. Maybe we can play spot the differences. I can see that the currency is different and while one article has photos, […]

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Taiwanese website, My Mobile Life, has managed get its hands on the touch screen version of Everex Cloudbook CE1200V. According to the author, he borrowed the UMPC from his U.S. based friend who was back in Taiwan for the elections. From the photos he posted, the Everex Cloudbook CE260 looks like a pre-production unit with a hastily pasted Everex […]

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Zyrex Ubud, the Cloudbook equivalent for the Indonesian market, has recently been reviewed by nebulousarion. Here’s an extract of her blog entry:
I believe Ubud is Zyrex’ answer to Asus’ EEE. This tiny, cute, lightweight (it’s only 0.94 kg) laptop is no toy though. Unlike EEE that has inconveniently small secondary storage, Ubud is shipped with […]

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Sporting a pearl white casing, the ultra portable from Twinhead looks as attractive as the Apple iBook or Asus Eee PC. With an 8″ LCD screen, Twinhead C8 has a native resolution of 1024×600, certainly an advantage to those who find Cloudbook and Eee PC’s 800×480 resolutions too small to work with. Even though the […]

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Engadget has just posted the full specifications for the upcoming HP 2133 UMPC. There are four models of HP 2133 and they differ with one another in processor speed, hard disk drive size, RAM size, Bluetooth availability, battery life and operating system. The price ranges from US$549 to US$749.

I have chosen to compare the basic HP 2133 model […]

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Aristo Pico 740, an ultra portable based on VIA Nanobook UMD reference design, has been released in Poland. From what I can make out from Aristo website, Pico 740 comes with a modular webcam (according to specifications) or modular VoIP handset (according to this photo). For the operating system department, there is a choice of […]

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Hi Folks,
This probably comes a little late but I realized that I didn’t post CloudbookUMPC.com February traffic reports. Not that the traffic received by CloudbookUMPC.com is impressive, but traffic can be a rough gauge of Cloudbook and Nanobooks popularity (since we received half the traffic from Google search). Let us see if there is anything […]

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Both Zonbu Zonbook and Everex Cloudbook CE1200V run Linux OS, use Via C7-M processors and cost around US$400. However, this is about where the similarities end. Zonbook is a normal-sized 15.4″ laptop while Cloudbook is a 7″ ultra mobile PC. Zonbook is as perfect a machine as computers get while Cloudbook is pretty much a […]

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While presenting to investors the new product category Netbook, Intel unexpectedly showed off the following slide:

It is interesting that they have chosen a picture of an ultra portable that appears to be a Via Nanobook. You can even make out the VoIP handset module from the photo. Check out page 38 of the presentation slides.
Spotted […]

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