Virtual demo of the UMPC

By James Kendrick | Friday, March 17, 2006 | 7:46 AM CT | 3 comments | Tweet This

Hugo Ortega of UberTablet decided to see for himself how his everyday programs would look on the 800×480 display that is the default resolution for UMPCs. He installed the UMPC Display Emulator on a touch screen Tablet and produced a five minute video showing how the programs look at that screen resolution. He ran the entire demo using his fingertips, which to me is one of the strengths of the UMPC. Give the video a look on his blog.

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Comments (3)

PBJ’s UMPC site is finally up: http://www.smartcaddie.jp/index_content.html

If I was even thinking of buying a UMPC this would probably be the one. But I’m not, really, seriously, not gonna happen.

Scotty — 4:04 AM on March 17, 2006 Reply
Cool idea – I considered doing this on my X41 tablet (not touch, but hey). But the one thing I’m most excited about on UMPCs is the Touch Pack software enhancements – DialKeys, 10″ interface, etc. Too bad there’s not a way to try that out, too.

Josh Bancroft — 5:32 AM on March 17, 2006 Reply
Thanks for the link. Nice to see how these things will look. One thing that struck me was that the virtual keyboard looked a little too small for typing at a decent speed on.

Chris

Chris Paton — 1:51 PM on March 18, 2006 Reply