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Real UMPC hardware at last, from Asus, Founder and Samsung

By Charles McLellan, 10 March 2006 13:15

Samsung's Q1 will be available in Europe from May, and will cost around €1,000 (£700). It has a 7-inch. 800×480-pixel TFT touchscreen, is powered by a 900MHz ultra-low-voltage Celeron M processor with 512MB of RAM, and has a 40GB hard disk. Wi-fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth are built in, along with wired 10/100Mbps Ethernet but other functionality, such as wide-area (GPRS, 3G) connectivity, GPS or digital TV, comes via add-ons (USB or CompactFlash).

Like the other UMPCs, the Q1 runs Windows XP Tablet PC Edition with Microsoft's Touch Pack add-on. Samsung claims the Q1's battery will last for "over three and a half hours".

Photo: Charles McLellan

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