From here in London, there are a couple of new devices I wish I could get my hands on. First there's the DualCor wireless Handtop PC, which runs two operating systems -- Windows XP and Windows Mobile (ie CE) -- and combines a PC with a PDA and a mobile phone. The press release says it measures 6.5 x 3.3 x 1.2 inches, and the spec includes 1.5GHz and 400MHz processors, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and a 5 inch, 800 x 480 resolution 256K colour touch-screen display. It's presumably designed for commercial rather than personal use, so I'd guess its success depends on getting adopted by one or two corporate giants, or the military. But it doesn't look bad value, as these things go, for $1,500.
The other is the OQO Tablet PC model 01+, which the company says is now the smallest and most portable PC running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. The spec includes a 1GHz Transmeta processor with 512MB of RAM, 30GB hard drive, a 5 inch, 800 x 480 touch screen display and a pull-out keyboard. It measures 4.9 x 3.4 x 0.9 inches and weighs 14 ounces. However, it looks rather pricey at $2,099, which compares with prices for the original OQO starting at $1,299. That seems a heck of a lot extra for the upgrade to Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
