Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Sony Announces $1800 VAIO UX UMPC

Microsoft and Intel declared the newborn Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) form-factor backwards in March with the intend to alter flooded Windows XP (and after Windows Vista) functionality to a handheld, tablet-based devices. Over the time some months, weve seen UMPC devices from Asus, Samsung, ECS, DualCor and TabletKiosk. Today, we crapper add a newborn contestant to the game: Sony. Heres the actual kicker though, Sony claims the full ultraportable weighs in at meet 1.2lbs.Rather than meet start the bust with a cookie-cutter been there, finished that organisation with its newborn VAIO UX, Sony has definite to alter things up a bit. While every previously displayed UMPCs attain do with a tool for signaling as substantially as a somewhat clumsy on-screen keyboard, the VAIO UX features a sacred sliding keyboard for quicker accumulation entry in constituent to the tralatitious stylus. The VAIO UX also comes with a touch launcher which gives users hurried admittance to oft utilised functions aforementioned telecommunicate and music.

On the element lateral of things, the one-pound organisation packs an Intel ULV Core Solo processor, 4.5″ SVGA (1024600) contact huffy LCD with XBRITE technology, threesome USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet, VGA, Firewire, WiFi, Bluetooth and WWAN (compatible with Cingulars EDGE wireless network). And the VAIO UX features not one, but digit built-in cameras. The digit settled on the face of the figure is for VOIP act and recording conferencing patch the camera on the backwards of the organisation is utilised to verify pictures. Security is handled by an desegrated biometric blot detector and G-Sensor profession is utilised to protect the VAIO UXs 30GB hornlike intend in the circumstance of an black fall.

The UX is shapely around an Intel Core Solo U1400 processor streaming at 1.2GHz with 2MB L2 cache. Sony has managed to study an Intel 945GMS chipset into the figure with 512MB of 400MHz DDR2. Intels GMA950 provides every of the graphics, and uses up 128MB of the grouping module when needed. Sony claims the whole devices runs on a plain 41W during connatural operation, gift the organisation up to 4.5 hours per shelling charge.

Thats quite a aggregation of features crowded into a pint-sized collection and Sony seems to be quite chesty of their newborn baby. This help is an action in creative design. With this incurvature PC, you crapper hit the aforementioned functionality as your duty or bag PC in a figure that fits in the region of your hand, said Mike Abary, evilness chair of VAIO creation marketing at Sony Electronics in the U.S.

For those of you intrigued by Sonys newborn VAIO, the listing toll is $1,800 and the exhibit begins in July of this year. You crapper preorder the organisation from SonyStyle correct now.

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