Thursday, April 27, 2006

Microsoft Origami's first European preview!

 

Wednesday April 26th one of the twos Origami available in Europe has been demonstrated at the Microsoft academic convention (Journées Academiques 2006) in Paris.

Here is a picture of the new Ultra-Mobile Tablet PC.

It is manufactured by Samsung and it is expected to be sold at affordable prices (below 1000 euros). It comes with a rubber cover which integrates a wireless keyboard. The touch screen can be used either with a stylo or with fingers. The battery lasts about 8 hours.

All the TabletPC software runs without problems.

This device targets the primarily the education market.

More to come! Stay tunned! Posted by Picasa

1 comment:

Attila[ReDegliUnni] said...

Hi Vincenzo!
the Nokia 770 is even more affordable (359 US$), and is based on open source software :)

(ps. I've created my own blog: http://insensitiveclod.blogspot.com/ )

see ya