Windows Vista in your pocket on June 20th
Wilcom has been touting these miniature handhelds for quite some time now, but the D4 has yet to get a Stateside release date…until now. The diminutive UMPC sports a full version of Windows Vista, running atop a 1.33 Ghz Intel Centrino processor, 40GB hard drive, 1GB RAM, Bluetooth, 802.11 b/g, and a 5 inch WSVGA touch screen. Pretty appealing stuff, but running Vista on a 1.33 Ghz Celeron processor with only 1 GB of RAM? Sounds like a potential train wreck to us. Regardless, if this is something you’re after, you’ll be able grab one from GeekStuff4U on June 20th. Sadly, the $1,526 excludes any sort of wireless broadband connectivity, but small is still appealing in its own right, we suppose.
Offer it to me for $499 and were talking business -
ok. I’ll sell you one for $499.
Having Vista on a home PC is enough of a nightmare, who in their right mind would want Vista on their phone???
probably a wattered down vista
I believe it’s an Intel Centrino Atom processor, to be specific. It looks like it competes against the OQO Model 02. A similarly configured OQO is $1300 (but has only 512MB of memory) or $1700 (but has a 60GB hard drive, and potentially a faster processor. No one really knows for sure how well Atom performs yet as compared to a VIA C7M ULV).
Sorry but a UMPC is not a cell phone……
It looks nice, and the specs aren’t terrible but Vista on 1GB of memory is terrible.
At least change the name of the image if you’re not going to credit the original source!
I feel sorry for them, spending all that money for useless technology. Vista…
Wonder how does that compare with HTC Shift in terms of performance. Both runs Vista. An interesting UMPC nevertheless.
I would love to have one of this thing, but the price is a bit to high, I guess is worth that, but who is willing to pay for it…, it fears losing are being stolen easy!
(Just a personal viewpoint)
This looks like a good START, but $1500? It would be horribly underpowered with only 1.3Ghz of power, especially with the 1GB of RAM. The OQO is a much better option, because it has mobile broadband. I thought the whole UMPC thing was about being able to get on the web anywhere, if that’s the case this is a terrible design, at least for that price. I would really be pissed knowing that i was too cheap to pay $150 to get a mobile modem in my UMPC. In the end anything with a mobile broadband option will win in the UMPC world. (Again, just a personal viewpoint on UMPC’s)
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