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GottaBeMobile.com - Vikram Maden Sums Up WinHEC News - Your Tablet PC, Ultra-Mobile PC, and Mobile Internet Device news source

Mon, 21 May 2007 18:25:44 GMT

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Steve Paine — Tue, 22 May 2007 10:33:14 GMT

The 'new' Origami spec was funny to read. Mainly non-umpc blogs getting over-excited looking for news in their 10 second glance over an RSS feed before they go to work!!

I'm seeing a lot more 'UMPC - stuffing' into tech blogs since CES. These guys know UMPC is going to be big soon and want to get the keyword into Google. It doesnt really help anyone unfortunately.

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Michael Molin — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:09:58 GMT

Hello Vikram,

Thanks for the post. I like this part of Craig Mundie's <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/exec/craig/05-15-2007WinHECMundie.mspx">keynote</a>:

"So, here we might expect that a lot of these people are going to live in an environment, maybe a rural village. The one thing that we do know today is that those people, they're buying computers. They happen to call them cell phones. Cell phones today and in the next few years will have microprocessors that rival the performance capabilities of the things that we all designed for and used as desktops not that many years ago. And the ability to use these not just for the traditional telephony activity but for other applications is going to become increasingly important."

Also, thank you very much for your site - it's wonderful - cartoons, poetry, games, music.

Michael

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Mickey Segal — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:25:19 GMT

The member of the press who said “I finally get it – it’s a PC. That’s great. And so much less confusing than the previous messaging” may not have been as clueless as depicted.

The previous marketing of tablets was all about having a computer you can draw on. Most people's reaction is "cool, but I won't buy one".

If you finally got across the message that UMPCs are full PCs that you can carry in your pocket you have finally gotten through to people.