Samsung Ultra Mobile PC Available For Pre-Order

Posted by John Goulden Categories: Corporate News, GPS, Handhelds, Microsoft, PC / Laptop, Portable Audio / Video, Wireless / WiFi

It looks as though Samsung will be one of the first companies to have an Ultra Mobile PC available for purchase.  We gave you insight into the UMPC just a few weeks ago, and with products about to hit the shelves, it’ll be interesting to see if they fly, or flop.  Granted, they’re very cool from a gadget standpoint as they do a little bit of everything, but that may be the whole crux of the problem.  Devices that do a bit of everything tend to not do any of them really well, and turn out to be rather mediocre as a whole.  Somehow this smacks of the Tablet PC all over again in that there isn’t a strong market for the product (even less so with the UMPC), but I digress . . . on with the show.

Expansys has the Samsung Q1 UMPC up for pre-order for £799.95 (~ $1,390 USD).  The specifications are what you’d expect of an “everything but the kitchen sink” type of device.  Running a Celeron M ULV CPU at 900MHz, it comes with 512MB RAM, a 7” WVGA LCD (800x480), Bluetooth, GPS, Wireless (802.11 a/b/g), and more.  About the only thing missing would be some form of high speed data like UMTS or EVDO, but that was never in the design specs anyway. 

Full specifications after the jump.

Read More | Expansys via Ubergizmo

•Processor: Intel Celeron M ULV (900MHz)
•Chipset & Graphics: 915 GMS Internal GFX
•Memory: 1 SODIMM Socket, DDRII 400, 512MB
•PCB: 10L Build up PCB
•LCD: 7” WVGA (800 x 480)
•Audio:
  - H/P out
  - Array Mic
  - 2 x 2W Stereo Speakers
•Storage: 8mm, 1.8” SFF HDD 40GB
•Communications:
  - 10/100 Ethernet
  - Mini card WLAN (802.11 b/g, a/b/g)
  - Bluetooth
•Multimedia: Multimedia Instant On, DMB (KOR)
•I/O Port:
  - H/P out
  - DC-in
  - CF Card slot (Type 2)
  - RJ45
  - USB x 2
  - VGA
  - Power conn for ODD
•User Interface:
  - Button : 8 Way Stick, 4 User Key, 3 button (Auto Scale/Select/Menu), Hold , Volume Up/Down, Power/MIO, CAD
•Battery:
  - Standard Battery : over 3.5 Hrs (Battery Mark), DVD Play: over 1:40
•Dimensions: 227.5 x 139.5 x 24.5~26.5 mm
•Weight: 779g (w/o ODD)
•OS: Windows XP Tablet Edition
•System Utility:
  - Magic Doctor
  - Magic Keyboard for Q1
  - Q1 Menu
•Application:
  - Acrobat Reader
  - Norton Anti-Virus
  - No-AD (KOR)
  - SRS Sound
•UMPC S/W: Shell & Dial Keyboard
•SAMSUNG Utility:
  - Auto Scaler
  - Electronic Manual
  - Voice Recorder
  - AVStation Premium
  - AVS Now (XPe)
  - Network Manager
  - Display Manager
  - Battery Manager
  - Update Plus