Yet another player in the UMPC market has emerged. Definitely a hot item this season. The Astone UMPC is a 7 inch laptop that’s looking to grab a piece of the ultra-portable pie. See picture and specs after the jump.
One of the units was found in an Octagon store in Metro Manila.
The specs is comparable to the Asus Eee PC and Intel’s Neo Explore X1. The CPU is a Via C7-M (clock speed at 1.2GHz) processor with 1 GB memory, 30GB hard disk drive, a built-in 1.3MP webcam, WiFi, and 7″ LCD touch screen (with handwriting capability, WVGA 800×400).
The placement of the webcam is a little off — that’s on the right of the LCD screen. No Operating system pre-installed. Suggested retail price is Php19,500 (roughly USD$469).
[tags]astone, umpc, laptop, notebook[/tags]
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I agree, the webcam is ugly. This could’ve been really cool.
Dell XPS in Hong Kong is less than 50k Php.
hmmm, the specs are even better than my 15″ laptop ^_^ looks good enough for the price range but I want Atom on it.
I second sylv3rblade - I want an Atom-based one too. Though I wonder if they can get a decent Atom-based UMPC below P20k. If they can’t, might as well fork out P20K for a full-fledged laptop.
Personally had my hands on the Asus eee PC, was a bit disappointed coz of lack of processing power (i KNOW it’s not supposed to playback those 1024×768 movies but … =P)
I’ll still vote for the EEE PC rather than this one.
I want this but you cannot do anything with it apart from surf.
yeah, personally i’ll wait for more competition and the Atom/Silverthorne CPU
another one.. wow, and the price tag is the same as teh Eee PC.
Have you tried using one?
The location of the webcam is actually an expandable slot called MODULE for any kind of device such as VOIP Phone. it has a USB port built inside of it.
in europe, they call this device as via nanobook.
check out the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLR8wLDFtCU