We’ve known for sometime that additional UMPCs that met the “official” Microsoft UMPC spec were on the way. I’ve seen at least one of them (it sure is pretty!). According to our good friends at Gottabemobile, Microsoft has confirmed that at least 6 more kick-ass UMPCs are on the way:

One of the good pieces of information to come out of the Mobile Connections conference was from Todd Lanstad, who works on the UMPC team at Microsoft. According to Todd, Microsoft is anticipating 6 - 10 additional Ultra-Mobile PC manufacturers to announce their UMPCs during the CES timeframe, which is held from January 8 - 11 in Las Vegas.

I had expected at least a couple of the announcements to hit before CES, but this platform is definitely on a “slow simmer” rather than a “rapid boil,” so we take the delays in stride. The bottom line is that Rev.2 of the UMPC world is on the way.

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