An interesting article in IT Week today talks to the war that is currently brewing between Nokia and the lowly UMPC.
Nokia believes it has a device format that could even challenge Microsoft’s Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) platform.
Nokia’s uber-device is, of course, mobile computing’s red-headed step-child, aka the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. As you likely know, it’s a device that utilizes Linux, Opera, WLAN, Bluetooth and a features a 4-inch screen that all the other UMPCs just laugh at. But, it’s that Napoleonic feature that Nokia believes will lead it to complete world domination.
“The UMPC shows there is demand for this type of handheld, but Origami [UMPC] devices are basically a squeezed-down laptop,” he said. By comparison, the 770 can easily be carried anywhere the user goes.
Maybe so, but does anyone remember the Nokia N-Gage/Tace Phone that was supposed to kill the PSP and the Gameboy? Yep, neither do I. Read all of the wishful thinking article here.
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