[Paul Martin]

Originally Posted by netboy

what' so ironic about that??

It's ironic because that's what they were calling the first unit's running Windows CE 1.0 when it was still a clamshell design. My first handheld was the Compaq C140 "PC Companion". Over time the units changed to the Palm PC then Pocket PC, but still run Windows CE under the hood. So, it's ironic to those of us who have used these for years. What goes around comes around.

[Paul Martin]

Originally Posted by netboy

what' so ironic about that??

It's ironic because that's what they were calling the first unit's running Windows CE 1.0 when it was still a clamshell design. My first handheld was the Compaq C140 "PC Companion". Over time the units changed to the Palm PC then Pocket PC, but still run Windows CE under the hood. So, it's ironic to those of us who have used these for years. What goes around comes around.

[IpaqMan2]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

I find it FASCINATING that the old "HPC" form factor is coming back in different ways, but the idea of a larger screened device with a keyboard of some sort is becoming popular again.

I have always thought a larger screen was always the better way to go than a smaller screen. Some of the Windows Mobile phone devices have such small screens that it actually has caused those devices to be less functional.

I also believe that HPC devices had the form factor of many of the new WM devices with their slide out keybaord they would of survived way longer than they did. But what killed the HPC devices were the different processors and the lack of universal compatable software in their early days.

As for these new umpc Windows Mobile device - I love the idea, but doubt it will make much more than a slight splash. Windows Mobile is great for a phone and an organizer but if that's all it's going to do, than all of it has already been done. WM applications have not gone mainstream, and forcing non-geek people who are already used to a Windows PC to use the WM interface I believe will do more harm than good for a UMPC device - put native CE with it's desktop - or at least the ability to switch from the WM interface to the desktop, than perhaps it might just get somewhere.