Archive for 2007/03


Intel and the State of the UMPC

Now raise your hand if you were at least a slight bit apprehensive about the Ultra Mobile PC a little over a year ago when word of it first surfaced? Ok, if you don’t have your hand raised I think you may be lying. I’ll admit, for as much as I love the [...]

A Consumer Friendly UMPC from Samsung?

ComputerWorld has an article stating that Samsung is looking into a lower priced more consumer friendly model of the Q1 (Let’s just make seperate model names now!)
“‘In order to have more users who can afford this kind of product, we are thinking of coming up with a second version,’ said H.S. Kim, executive vice president [...]

How do you describe Vista?

I was discussing Windows Vista last weekend with a good friend of mine.  He asked me an interesting question “Bells and whistles aside, how is Vista as an operating system?  Is it still just as functional?”
I had to think about it for a short time.  It’s got a slightly changed layout under the start menu, [...]

Bluetooth Headset Can You Hear Me?

Ok so this issue of Bluetooth on the Q1 is well documented. I managed to get it working by uninstalling the default software, letting MSFT “find drivers” then installing version 6 of the Bluetooth drivers that Samsung suggests. Ok. So Bluetooth works…
My Q1 immediately found my phone. However it took a [...]