The obvious difference between this and those much maligned first gen UMPCs is the sliding keyboard.
Some of the more recent ones include the aborted Palm Foleo, the Sony Mylo, Nokia Internet Tablets, UMPCs, and MIDs.
Among the more notable boastings by the company is a promised 20x reduction in UMPCs' power consumption by 2009-2010.
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But UMPCs cost nearly twice what the Foleo will sell for, making Palm's 2.5-pound Web-surfing and phone-syncing device seem like a bargain.
UMPCs enjoy limited popularity--analysts at In-Stat predict that fewer than 8 million of them will be purchased by 2011--and feature more data storage space than the Foleo.
Turns out the Haiku is going to look a lot like what Microsoft was demoing at WinHEC back in 2005, which was quite sexier than what we've seen so far from this generation of UMPCs.
Having already played around with both OQOs, several UMPCs, and countless smartphones, we had a pretty good idea of what we were expecting from this device, and from our preliminary evaluation, it does not disappoint.
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The 4.5-inch screen was "sharp and bright" and its 1, 024 x 600 resolution (UMPCs go 800 x 480 on a 7-inch display) made full screen web browsing possible if you don't mind uh, "squinting" a bit with those "handy" buttons along the right-side of the case giving a quick zoom when necessary.
We still don't feel like consumers are rushing out to buy those portable but quirky UMPCs (well, an unnamed Engadget editor actually did rush out to buy one -- and returned it shortly thereafter), but it seems like the form factor is here to stay anyway, and now Korean manufacturer Daewoo Lucoms -- a spin-off of Daewoo Electronics -- has released its own version called the Solo M1.
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